Re: F23 dracut can't find disk

2016-04-21 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 20.04.2016 18:58, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 04/19/2016 06:07 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: >> I wrote: >> >>> I have five machines which were fresh-installed with F23 back in >>> February and all have been booted successfully a few times since. >>> Today, booting of all of them fails in exactly the same

Re: ping now impossible?

2014-07-18 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 18.07.2014 14:22, Tom Horsley wrote: Yesterday, I could run ping. This morning I installed updates which came with a new kernel, and all attempts to ping generate this: tomh ping marmot ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted I now have to use sudo in front of ping to make it

Re: Have you registered for Flock?

2014-07-17 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 17.07.2014 17:03, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 05:52:35PM +0530, Kalpa Welivitigoda wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Ruth Suehle rsue...@gmail.com wrote: If you tried to register yesterday and weren't able, please try again now. Registration is re-opened for just a

Re: F19 not able to boot by UUID

2013-08-29 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 08/29/2013 03:55 PM, g wrote: On 08/29/2013 06:46 AM, Mark Haney wrote: My first guess would be to check that you're using the exact same UUID in the boot parameter as on the drive partition. Check the partition UUID is what you thought it is. Check for typos in the boot

Re: Video is slow

2013-08-26 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 08/26/2013 09:20 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 22:12:34 -0700 Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 08/25/2013 09:21 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: While I respect Joe Zeff as a reputable member of this list, those instructions on fedoraforum are a total piece of crap. I don't know

Re: Disable built-in WiFi card so that USB WiFi device gets used --- systemctl?

2013-07-29 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 07/29/2013 02:28 AM, poma wrote: On 29.07.2013 02:01, Rolf Turner wrote: … (b) Would it be possible to disable/mask the internal WiFi card but leave the USB WiFi device available, so that I can actually get a WiFi connection? … I am running Fedora 17; output of uname -a is:

Re: Dracut on reboot

2013-04-10 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 10.04.2013 07:00, schrieb Joe Zeff: On 04/09/2013 08:03 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: When you are at the dracut:/# prompt, you are still running from the initramfs, probably without even the normal root filesystem mounted, and ~ resolves to the root directory in the initramfs. Storing

Re: Dracut on reboot

2013-04-10 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 10.04.2013 10:55, schrieb poma: On 10.04.2013 10:07, Harald Hoyer wrote: Well, the strategy here is to mount /boot and save any files there for later inspection. /boot is chosen, because it's a simple partition. *boot* *simple* Only if you follow Fedora's install guidance. :) poma

Re: Dracut on reboot

2013-04-08 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 07.04.2013 00:47, schrieb Richard Vickery: Hi Gang, A number of times f18 has become stuck for so long that I felt it necessary to call the command reboot. Certain times a dracut command line shows up and I call systemctl, which shows what it does, and with little-to-no current

Re: mount --move doesn't work

2013-04-04 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 04.04.2013 10:01, schrieb Pasha R: Hi, I'm trying to understand how mount --move can be used. Whenever I use it, I get an error mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock... for example (something I found that supposed to work): mkdir foo bar mount --bind foo foo mount --move foo

Re: Fedora 18 existing /usr partition -- need to merge into rootfs?

2013-04-02 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 01.04.2013 14:47, schrieb Noah Cutler: Hey all. I'm confused over the whole separate /usr partition is broken thing: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken From an email in current fedora-user thread we have: That should not be necessary. And would break a

Re: Fedora 18 existing /usr partition -- need to merge into rootfs?

2013-04-02 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 01.04.2013 14:57, schrieb Reindl Harald: Am 01.04.2013 14:47, schrieb Noah Cutler: I'm confused over the whole separate /usr partition is broken thing: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken Everything appears to work swimmingly here after 1 month of use --

Re: Fedora 18 existing /usr partition -- need to merge into rootfs?

2013-04-02 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 01.04.2013 17:26, schrieb Robert Nichols: On 04/01/2013 07:47 AM, Noah Cutler wrote: Hey all. I'm confused over the whole separate /usr partition is broken thing: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken From an email in current fedora-user thread we have:

Re: Fedora 18 existing /usr partition -- need to merge into rootfs?

2013-04-02 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 02.04.2013 11:18, schrieb Ed Greshko: On 04/02/13 17:14, Harald Hoyer wrote: This is FUD. The idea is perfectly fine and we should bring our OS in shape for doing it so. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ojgzJOfWB8XaC5kqyrv4IhR9snZKBI77a02R4cj1QM8/view Google Drive says

Re: Fedora 18 existing /usr partition -- need to merge into rootfs?

2013-04-02 Thread Harald Hoyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 02.04.2013 11:23, schrieb Reindl Harald: Am 02.04.2013 11:14, schrieb Harald Hoyer: it makes ZERO sense to split /usr to a own partition you owuld really clone a partition containing the whole system or share it with another setup without

Re: Fedora 18 existing /usr partition -- need to merge into rootfs?

2013-04-02 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 02.04.2013 11:50, schrieb Noah Cutler: Harald Ok, so then separate /usr is apparently not broken, or for now there's a fallback mechanism (as of F18) to make things work in the event that /usr is on its own partition. Either way my setup is working (appears to), but it would be nice

Re: hibernate with keystroke?

2013-03-24 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 23.03.13 18:17, schrieb poma: On 23.03.2013 06:05, Harald Hoyer wrote: Am 22.03.2013 21:32, schrieb poma: On 22.03.2013 13:00, Harald Hoyer wrote: ... you must not resume from a raid array Let me show you how country feels :) Version: 025-35.git20130211.fc18 [1] /etc/dracut.conf.d

Re: hibernate with keystroke?

2013-03-22 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 22.03.2013 02:23, schrieb poma: On 22.03.2013 01:32, poma wrote: ... btw on 3.8.3-203.fc18.x86_64 the hibernate is broken on some mobos. Actually, dracut --hostonly generated initramfs broke the hibernate. dracut 1 - 0 systemd :) Hi Ho Silver! poma Does it work, if you specify

Re: hibernate with keystroke?

2013-03-22 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 22.03.2013 12:45, schrieb poma: On 22.03.2013 07:18, Harald Hoyer wrote: Am 22.03.2013 02:23, schrieb poma: On 22.03.2013 01:32, poma wrote: ... btw on 3.8.3-203.fc18.x86_64 the hibernate is broken on some mobos. Actually, dracut --hostonly generated initramfs broke the hibernate

Re: hibernate with keystroke?

2013-03-22 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 22.03.2013 21:32, schrieb poma: On 22.03.2013 13:00, Harald Hoyer wrote: ... you must not resume from a raid array Let me show you how country feels :) Version: 025-35.git20130211.fc18 [1] /etc/dracut.conf.d/dracut-custom.conf: # Custom dracut config file # /etc/dracut.conf.d

Re: Check your /etc/default/grub, if you use raid 1.

2012-07-31 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 29.07.2012 16:25, schrieb Reindl Harald: Am 29.07.2012 16:19, schrieb Bruno Wolff III: On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:02:00 -0400, Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: There's a long standing combination of two bugs: the list of rd.md.uuid boot parameters generated by anaconda

Re: F16-17 preupgrade - does it handle the /usr move?

2012-07-12 Thread Harald Hoyer
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Steve Dowe s...@warpuniversal.co.uk wrote: I'm unsure whether to make this an issue in bugzilla, given my unorthodox route here, but it seems like there is an issue with the F17 initrd being created while running in F16's 3.3 kernel. Could anyone comment on

Re: Fedora 17 - Only one kernel

2012-07-12 Thread Harald Hoyer
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 07/10/2012 11:43 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: Do you have any information on this problem? What did you try to solve it? See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=769747 for details. Note that I'm not the original reporter,

Re: Fedora 16 kernel panic

2012-02-24 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 24.02.2012 19:02 schrieb Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com: On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:58:55 -0500 Brian Johnson wrote: initramfs unpacking failed uncompression error It is just a gzipped cpio archive, try running it through gzip -d initramfsfile | cpio -t (or something like that, I'd

Re: Partition boot order

2012-02-13 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 12.02.2012 17:57, schrieb Frank Murphy: In the box there are two physical drives /dev/sda, /dev/sdb both gpt formatted. and encrypted where necessary /, swap, home How can I change the default booting order. /dev/sda3 swap always comes up first. when booting up. How can I change

Re: (fedora) Re: After F14-F15 boot hangs

2011-05-27 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 26.05.2011 13:51, schrieb Jouk Jansen: harald.ho...@gmail.com wrote on 26-MAY-2011 13:25:19.97 Thanks Harald for the quiack answer, but... Am 26.05.2011 13:11, schrieb Jouk Jansen: Hi all, Today I tried to upgrade one of my machines from F14-F15 (x86-64) using the DVD distribution. All

Re: Why on the Earth GNOME Shell hiding Shutdown Restart options

2011-05-27 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 26.05.2011 14:45, Misha Shnurapet wrote: 26.05.2011, 11:17, Juan R. de Silva juan.r.d.si...@gmail.com: Could anybody explain it, why GNOME folks decided to hide the Shutdown and especially Restart buttons/options from a user so well? Is it especially dangerous to use them nowadays? Or GNOME

Re: kernel panic on boot with fedora 15

2011-05-26 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 26.05.2011 08:26, schrieb Scott van Looy: Aha! For some reason the initramfs is missing from the Fedora 15 kernel on my system. Any idea how to get it back? :) # dracut /boot/initramfs-kernel version.img kernel version -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: kernel panic on boot with fedora 15

2011-05-26 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 26.05.2011 08:55, schrieb Scott van Looy: Today Harald Hoyer did spake thusly: Am 26.05.2011 08:26, schrieb Scott van Looy: Aha! For some reason the initramfs is missing from the Fedora 15 kernel on my system. Any idea how to get it back? :) # dracut /boot/initramfs-kernel

Re: kernel panic on boot with fedora 15

2011-05-26 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 26.05.2011 09:15, schrieb Scott van Looy: Today Harald Hoyer did spake thusly: Am 26.05.2011 08:55, schrieb Scott van Looy: Today Harald Hoyer did spake thusly: Am 26.05.2011 08:26, schrieb Scott van Looy: Aha! For some reason the initramfs is missing from the Fedora 15 kernel on my

Re: non fatal POSTTRANS scriptlet failure

2011-05-26 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 26.05.2011 10:02, schrieb Scott van Looy: Running Transaction Installing : kernel-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.x86_64 1/1 Non-fatal POSTTRANS scriptlet failure in rpm package kernel-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.x86_64 I believe this is yum trying to run dracut and it failing. Is there any way I can see the

Re: non fatal POSTTRANS scriptlet failure

2011-05-26 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 26.05.2011 10:12, schrieb Scott van Looy: Today Harald Hoyer did spake thusly: Am 26.05.2011 10:02, schrieb Scott van Looy: Running Transaction Installing : kernel-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.x86_64 1/1 Non-fatal POSTTRANS scriptlet failure in rpm package kernel-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.x86_64 I

Re: After F14-F15 boot hangs

2011-05-26 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 26.05.2011 13:11, schrieb Jouk Jansen: Hi all, Today I tried to upgrade one of my machines from F14-F15 (x86-64) using the DVD distribution. All was OK till booting in to the new F15. Somewhere in the booting process it seems to hang forever. The last printed message on the screen is:

Re: systemd service config where?

2011-05-26 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 26.05.2011 13:10, schrieb Tom Horsley: On Thu, 26 May 2011 06:56:59 +0530 Rahul Sundaram wrote: If I understand your question correctly, you can figure this out by looking at symlinks at /etc/systemd Well, there is stuff in there all right, but I can tell I'm going to have to compare

Re: suggestion for emergency boot

2011-05-25 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 25.05.2011 15:05, schrieb Genes MailLists: May I cordially suggest we add a grub stanza for 'Emergency Boot' This could be especially important if booting to single user with 's' or '1' is no longer supported (is it?) and needs in its stead: systemd.unit=emergency.target

Re: What on earth is mounted?

2011-05-25 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 25.05.2011 um 20:39 schrieb Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com: Tom Horsley wrote: Where on earth do those /tmp /var/tmp and /home entries come from? They certainly aren't all mounted on top of the same filesystem root. There are no entries for them in /etc/fstab. What is going on?

Re: Changing Owner on a backup drive

2011-04-04 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 04.04.11 04:16, schrieb JD: On 04/03/2011 06:41 PM, Jim wrote: Fedora 14 I have a backup drive at sdb1 a Vfat (fat32) partition a USB hard drive that before upgrading from Fedora 13 to Fedora 14 , the owner was Michael , but after upgrade it is now owned by root. all the backup files

Re: Fedora 14, wireless keyboards and encryption

2010-12-02 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 02.12.2010 00:15, schrieb Chris Northwood: Thanks for the advice, but after manually recreating the initrd then the same still occurs. My wired keyboard is also USB, so I don't think it's that. I dug into it some more and checked dmesg - my keyboard/mouse aren't getting recognised until

Re: Using ionice -c3 in f13: system seems less responsive than under f12

2010-11-26 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 25.11.2010 14:30, schrieb John Pilkington: Hi: My system spends a lot of its time processing video data, often with not much numerical processing involved - just remuxing or making an iso image. atop often shows disk activity above 90%. I do most of this using ionice -c3, (ie 'idle'

Re: No keyboard with GDM on F14

2010-11-22 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 22.11.2010 12:48, schrieb Jean Francois Martinez: When I boot F14 and I reach the GDM screeen there is simply no field to enter the user ID and no user list, apparently it doesn't detect the keyboard. This happens both with an USB keyboard and with a PS/2 one. If I force a restart of GDM

Re: Nouveau won't load with custom kernel 2.6.35.6-48

2010-11-17 Thread Harald Hoyer
Am 17.11.2010 17:24, schrieb stan: I compiled a custom kernel in F14 using the Fedora source RPM, and created a custom initramfs for it using dracut. It boots, and X tries to load nouveau, but it fails and falls back to VESA. Here is the pertinent section from Xorg.0.log while it was

Re: Last Kernel update left me without initramfs

2010-10-28 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 10/28/2010 08:36 AM, Federico Marziali wrote: Hi all, with Fedora 13, the last kernel update left me without the file intirmafs in the /boot partition. All the rest is there, and I was wondering if there is an easy way to build this file myself... Any tutorial available for fedora? I

Re: Last Kernel update left me without initramfs

2010-10-28 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 10/28/2010 08:36 AM, Federico Marziali wrote: Hi all, with Fedora 13, the last kernel update left me without the file intirmafs in the /boot partition. All the rest is there, and I was wondering if there is an easy way to build this file myself... Any tutorial available for fedora? I

dracut documentation

2010-09-20 Thread Harald Hoyer
Hi Fedora users, I started to write a dracut user and developer manual, and follow the release early and often mantra. Here is what I have for now: http://people.redhat.com/harald/dracut.html source is here: http://dracut.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=dracut/dracut;a=blob;f=dracut.xml

Re: Fedora 13 installation, does not boot

2010-07-20 Thread Harald Hoyer
You might want to edit /etc/grub.conf in rescue and remove quiet and rhgb and add rdinit rd_NO_PLYMOUTH to the Kernel command line. On Wednesday, July 21, 2010, Vincent Onelli vone...@optonline.net wrote: From: Darr d...@core.com H... if grub's boot menu never appears, how do you know

Re: Fedora 13 installation, does not boot

2010-07-17 Thread Harald Hoyer
On Saturday, July 17, 2010, Chris Rouch chris.ro...@gmail.com wrote: It could be that your initramfs file is corrupt - it doesn't have references to the correct disks. By default, nothing is hardcoded by dracut in the initramfs. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

2010-05-20 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 05/18/2010 05:05 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2010, Tom H wrote: On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Dennis Gilmoreden...@ausil.us wrote: On Monday 17 May 2010 08:40:31 pm Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/18/2010 09:09 AM, Tom H wrote: On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Rick

Re: CD/DVD automount in Fedora 12

2010-04-14 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 04/06/2010 05:38 PM, Andrew Junev wrote: Hello François, Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 10:25:04 AM, you wrote: This is a strange question, perhaps... How do I _enable_ CD-ROM automount on Fedora 12 machine? 2 tests: Immediately after boot, check for soft link: /dev/dvd -- /dev/sr0

Re: Recent Fedora 12 update (FEDORA-2010-1088) question

2010-01-29 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 01/29/2010 03:52 PM, Jay_Linux wrote: Did an update a couple of days ago. One of the updates related to dracut-initramfs-builder [1]. This mentions rebuilding the initramfs after this update: You want to rebuild the initramfs to test this: mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img

Re: F12: Latest Two Kernels Won't Boot

2010-01-28 Thread Harald Hoyer
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Tony Molloy tony.mol...@ul.ie wrote: When I boot I get as far as the cursor flashing on the top left hand corner of the screen and then the following error. Traceback (most recent call last): File /init, line 157 in module if __name__=='__main__': main()