Re: Fedora37: Fails to boot with NISDOMAIN=... in /etc/sysconfig/network

2022-12-19 Thread Terry Barnaby
witch.conf. On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 10:03 AM Terry Barnaby wrote: A strange one this. I was just updating a Fedora35 server to Fedora37, using a full reinstall and then copying configuration files from the old system. The system failed to boot with lots of stra

Fedora37: Fails to boot with NISDOMAIN=... in /etc/sysconfig/network

2022-12-18 Thread Terry Barnaby
A strange one this. I was just updating a Fedora35 server to Fedora37, using a full reinstall and then copying configuration files from the old system. The system failed to boot with lots of strange issues with systemd. It started with console messages like: [ TIME ] Timeout waiting for

Re: Fedora37 NIS logins no audio in KDE/Plasma/X11

2022-12-12 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 11/12/2022 10:16, Terry Barnaby wrote: I've just updated a test machine from Fedora35 to Fedora37, most is working but users logged in using NIS authentication no longer have access to audio. The system is using the KDE/Plasma desktop and the sddm login manager all using X11. It looks

Fedora37 NIS logins no audio in KDE/Plasma/X11

2022-12-11 Thread Terry Barnaby
I've just updated a test machine from Fedora35 to Fedora37, most is working but users logged in using NIS authentication no longer have access to audio. The system is using the KDE/Plasma desktop and the sddm login manager all using X11. It looks like /run/user/ does not exist and

Re: Time to update the hardware

2022-03-11 Thread Terry Barnaby
Note with NVME drives, well any NAND FLASH, you have to know what technology is in use when writing data to the drive. In particular we have noticed that some of the latest, large storage devices, use TLC (three bits per cell) based technology. Writing to TLC cells is relatively slow. So most

Re: NFS mount lockups since about a month ago

2021-10-30 Thread Terry Barnaby
Since some Fedora33 update in the last couple of weeks the problem has gone away. I haven't changed anything as far as I am aware. One change is that the kernel moved from 5.13.x to 5.14.x ... Terry On 21/10/2021 23:36, Reon Beon via users wrote: https://release-monitoring.org/project/2081/

Re: NFS mount lockups since about a month ago

2021-10-06 Thread Terry Barnaby
Hi Roger, Thanks for looking. I will try NFS v3 with my latency tests running. I did try NFS v3 before and I "think" there were still desktop lockups but for a much shorter time. But this is just a feeling. Current kernel on both systems is: 5.13.19-100.fc33.x86_64. If I find the time, I will

Re: NFS mount lockups since about a month ago

2021-10-05 Thread Terry Barnaby
sar -n EDEV reports all 0's all around then. There are somerxdrop/s of 0.02 occasionally on eno1 through the day (about 20 of these with minute based sampling). Today ifconfig lists 39 dropped RX packets out of 2357593. Not sure why there are some dropped packets. "ethtool -S eno1" doesn't seem

Re: NFS mount lockups since about a month ago

2021-10-04 Thread Terry Barnaby
and iostats: 04/10/21 10:51:14 avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle   2.09    0.00    1.56    0.02    0.00   96.33 Device    r/s rkB/s   rrqm/s  %rrqm r_await rareq-sz w/s wkB/s   wrqm/s  %wrqm w_await wareq-sz d/s dkB/s   drqm/s  %drqm

Re: NFS mount lockups since about a month ago

2021-10-04 Thread Terry Barnaby
My disklatencytest showed a longish (14 secs) NFS file system directoty/stat lookup again today on a desktop: 2021-10-04T05:26:19 0.069486 0.069486 0.000570 /home/... 2021-10-04T05:28:19 0.269743 0.538000 0.001019 /home/... 2021-10-04T09:48:00 1.492158 0.003314   

Re: NFS mount lockups since about a month ago

2021-10-03 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 04/10/2021 00:51, Roger Heflin wrote: With 10 minute samples anything that happened gets averaged enough that even the worst event is almost impossible to see. Sar will report the same as date ie local time.  And a 12:51 event would be in the 13:00 sample (started at about 12:50 and ended

Re: NFS mount lockups since about a month ago

2021-10-03 Thread Terry Barnaby
45 second event happened at: 2021-10-02T11:51:02 UTC. Not sure what sar time is based on (maybe local time BST  rather than UTC so would be 2021-10-02T12:51:02 BST. Continuing info ... sar -n NFSD on the server 11:00:01    24.16  0.00 24.16  0.00 24.16  0.00  0.00

Re: NFS mount lockups since about a month ago

2021-10-03 Thread Terry Barnaby
45 second event happened at: 2021-10-02T11:51:02 UTC. Not sure what sar time is based on (maybe local time BST  rather than UTC so would be 2021-10-02T12:51:02 BST. "sar -d" on the server: 11:50:02   dev8-0  4.67  0.01 46.62 0.00  9.99  0.12 14.03  5.75

Re: NFS mount lockups since about a month ago

2021-10-02 Thread Terry Barnaby
I am getting more sure this is an NFS/networking issue rather than an issue with disks in the server. I created a small test program that given a directory finds a random file in a random directory three levels below, opens it and reads up to a block (512 Bytes) of data from it and times how

Re: NFS mount lockups since about a month ago

2021-10-01 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 01/10/2021 19:05, Roger Heflin wrote: it will show latency. await is average iotime in ms, and %util is calced based in await and iops/sec. So long as your turn sar down to 1 minute samples it should tell you which of the 2 disks had higher await/util%.With a 10 minute sample the 40sec

Re: NFS mount lockups since about a month ago

2021-10-01 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 01/10/2021 13:31, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: Trivial thoughts from reading this thread. Please don't take the triviality as an insult. Perhaps the best way to determine if the problem is from a software update is to downgrade likely packages. In the case of the kernel, you can just boot an

Re: NFS mount lockups since about a month ago

2021-10-01 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 30/09/2021 19:27, Roger Heflin wrote: Raid0, so there is no redundancy on the data? And what kind of underlying hard disks? The desktop drives will try for a long time (ie a minute or more) to read any bad blocks. Those disks will not report an error unless it gets to the default os

Re: NFS mount lockups since about a month ago

2021-09-30 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 30/09/2021 11:42, Roger Heflin wrote: On mine when I first access the NFS volume it takes 5-10 seconds for the disks to spin up.  Mine will spin down later in the day if little or nothing is going on and I will get another delay. I have also seen delays if a disk gets bad blocks and

Re: NFS mount lockups since about a month ago

2021-09-30 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 30/09/2021 11:32, Ed Greshko wrote: On 30/09/2021 16:35, Terry Barnaby wrote: This is a very lightly loaded system with just 3 users ATM and very little going on across the network (just editing code files etc). The problem occurred again yesterday. For about 10 minutes my KDE desktop

Re: NFS mount lockups since about a month ago

2021-09-30 Thread Terry Barnaby
Thanks for the feedback everyone. This is a very lightly loaded system with just 3 users ATM and very little going on across the network (just editing code files etc). The problem occurred again yesterday. For about 10 minutes my KDE desktop locked up in 20 second bursts and then the problem

Re: NFS mount lockups since about a month ago

2021-09-25 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 25/09/2021 09:00, Ed Greshko wrote: On 25/09/2021 14:07, Terry Barnaby wrote: A few questions. 1.  Are you saying your NFS server HW is the same for the past 25 years.  Couldn't have been all Fedora, right? No ( :) ) was using previous Linux and Unix systems before then. Certainly OS

Re: NFS mount lockups since about a month ago

2021-09-25 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 25/09/2021 06:42, Ed Greshko wrote: On 25/09/2021 13:04, Terry Barnaby wrote: Hi, I use NFS mount (defaults so V4) /home directories with a simple server over Gigabit Ethernet all running Fedora33. This has been working fine for 25+ years through various Fedora versions. However

NFS mount lockups since about a month ago

2021-09-24 Thread Terry Barnaby
Hi, I use NFS mount (defaults so V4) /home directories with a simple server over Gigabit Ethernet all running Fedora33. This has been working fine for 25+ years through various Fedora versions. However in the last month or so all of the client computers are getting KDE GUI lockups every few

Dhcpd server usage with USB RDNIS interface that goes up and down

2021-08-19 Thread Terry Barnaby
I have an AM335x based IOT system where the CPU can initially boot over its USB interface using RDNIS and TCPIP/DHCP/TFTP. I need to run a DHCP server on a Fedora33 host to support the DHCP requests from this CPU. In this scenario the CPU brings its USB RDNIS interface up and down about 3

Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-09 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 09/04/2020 12:24, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-04-09 17:57, Terry Barnaby wrote: The script already has date/time and the log shows (The Wed 8th entries entry  having the PID): Bbackup / /usr/beam /home /src /srcOld /dist /opt /scratch /data/svn /data/www /data/vwt /data/www /data1/kvm /data

Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-09 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 09/04/2020 07:00, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: Hi On Tue, 07 Apr 2020 07:07:36 +0100 Terry Barnaby wrote: # Min Hour Day Month WeekDay # Perform incremental backup to every work day 01 23 * * 1 root /src/bbackup/bbackup-beam 01 23 * * 2 root /src/bbackup/bbackup-beam 01 23 * * 3 root

Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-09 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 08/04/2020 23:11, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 08Apr2020 14:54, Terry Barnaby wrote: Note this has happened a few times this year, (approx 1 in 64 x) so not related to DST changes anyway. Might be due to chrony clock resyncs I suppose but I think something stranger is going on here

Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-08 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 08/04/2020 14:37, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2020-04-08 at 20:28 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: I don't know how it works where you live, but in the UK the autumn switch occurs at 2am, which reverts back to being 1am. Thus a time such as 1:30am occurs twice, and events programmed for that

Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-07 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 07/04/2020 13:06, Iosif Fettich wrote: Hi Terry, Yes, there is nothing unusual in /var/log/cron: Apr  6 22:01:01 beam CROND[651585]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) [...] /var/log/messages Feb 24 23:00:03 beam dhcpd[1743]: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.201.214 from

Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-07 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 07/04/2020 09:03, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/6/20 11:07 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: This system has been in use for 10 years or more on various Fedora versions. However about 18 months ago I have seen a problem where cron will start two backups with identical start times occasionally. I have

Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-07 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 07/04/2020 09:25, Iosif Fettich wrote: Hi, On 2020-04-07 14:07, Terry Barnaby wrote: I have a simple backup system that starts off a backup once per night during the weekdays. There is a crontab file in /etc/cron.d with the following entries

Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-07 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 07/04/2020 08:21, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-04-07 14:07, Terry Barnaby wrote: I have a simple backup system that starts off a backup once per night during the weekdays. There is a crontab file in /etc/cron.d with the following entries

Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-07 Thread Terry Barnaby
I have a simple backup system that starts off a backup once per night during the weekdays. There is a crontab file in /etc/cron.d with the following entries: # Beam Bbackup cron setup   Backup to ...

Re: Please add OpenFOAM to the Fedora repositories.

2019-12-20 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 17/12/2019 17:21, Richard Shaw wrote: Since I did a *LITTLE* CFD in college I decided to take a look and as I expected OpenFOAM will likely not be easy to package... 1. It's designed to install to $HOME or /opt (but I believe that can be modified). 2. It uses a custom build system (wmake)

Re: Fedora31: grub2 issues with grub2-mount using 100% CPU

2019-12-12 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 12/12/2019 12:06, ja wrote: On Thu, 2019-12-12 at 10:01 +, Terry Barnaby wrote: On 12/12/2019 06:33, Terry Barnaby wrote: I have just started to try out Fedora31 on some of our systems. I am using a bit of an unusual, manual install method copying an image of the rootfs to the disk

Re: Fedora31: grub2 issues with grub2-mount using 100% CPU

2019-12-12 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 12/12/2019 06:33, Terry Barnaby wrote: I have just started to try out Fedora31 on some of our systems. I am using a bit of an unusual, manual install method copying an image of the rootfs to the disk and configuring this, (this may be related to my issue, but I have been using the same

Fedora31: grub2 issues with grub2-mount using 100% CPU

2019-12-11 Thread Terry Barnaby
I have just started to try out Fedora31 on some of our systems. I am using a bit of an unusual, manual install method copying an image of the rootfs to the disk and configuring this, (this may be related to my issue, but I have been using the same system for 6 years or more). The particular

Re: Smallest Fedora box to use as gateway/firewall/VPN

2019-01-09 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 09/01/2019 08:19, John Harris wrote: On Wednesday, January 9, 2019 3:14:25 AM EST Terry Barnaby wrote: I know you asked for Fedora, but a standard, low cost router, running OpenWRT, https://openwrt.org/, would likely be better for the tasks you mention. OpenWRT is a minimal Linux system

Re: Smallest Fedora box to use as gateway/firewall/VPN

2019-01-09 Thread Terry Barnaby
I know you asked for Fedora, but a standard, low cost router, running OpenWRT, https://openwrt.org/, would likely be better for the tasks you mention. OpenWRT is a minimal Linux system with the ability to install extra packages. It has a simple to use WEB admin system and can do all the things

Re: Server goes catatonic after a few days

2019-01-08 Thread Terry Barnaby
You could try the program memtester "dnf install memtester" "memtester 1g". This is a user level memory tester. I also have a server that occasionally dies. It started doing this late last year under Fedora27. I wasn't sure if it was a particular kernel change or hardware, but I replaced the

F29: authselect with nis losing mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return], breaks printing

2018-12-20 Thread Terry Barnaby
Having updated to F29 from F27 (which seems to be generally working well :) ), I have one issue with our systems due to the new authselect system. When I enable the nis (YP) system for logins the /etc/nsswitch.conf file loses the "mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return]" for hosts searches. One

Re: Fedora27: Ethernet interfaces set to 100MBits/sec half duplex

2018-02-13 Thread Terry Barnaby
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 1:16 AM, Terry Barnaby <ter...@beam.ltd.uk> wrote: On 12/02/18 21:51, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/13/18 05:43, Stephen Morris wrote: I am using a home plug device to get ethernet access across the home electrical wires. The home plug device is provide 500 Mb/s, so

Re: Fedora27: Ethernet interfaces set to 100MBits/sec half duplex

2018-02-12 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 12/02/18 21:51, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/13/18 05:43, Stephen Morris wrote: I am using a home plug device to get ethernet access across the home electrical wires. The home plug device is provide 500 Mb/s, so having seen this thread I've checked my ethernet configuration and like Terry is

Fedora27: Ethernet interfaces set to 100MBits/sec half duplex

2018-02-12 Thread Terry Barnaby
I have just noticed that most of my systems now have their Ethernet interfaces running at 100 MBits/s half duplex rather than the expected 1GBits/s. I think some update has caused this to happen, probably about 5 days ago (noticed something was slow). These are KDE/Plasma GUI systems but I'm

Re: Fedora27: Cannot set the default network route

2018-02-08 Thread Terry Barnaby
if it had a "route" command matching the system "ip route" command. Anyway thanks for the info. Terry On 06/02/18 22:07, Rick Stevens wrote: On 02/06/2018 01:16 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: On 06/02/18 20:21, James Hogarth wrote: On 3 February 2018 at 22:20, Terry Barnaby <ter...

Re: Fedora27: Cannot set the default network route

2018-02-06 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 06/02/18 20:21, James Hogarth wrote: On 3 February 2018 at 22:20, Terry Barnaby <ter...@beam.ltd.uk> wrote: On 02/02/18 16:40, Bill Shirley wrote: You didn't post the command or its output. How can anyone help you? What's the output of these two commands? ip -o -4 addr ip -o -4

Re: Fedora27: Cannot set the default network route

2018-02-03 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 02/02/18 16:40, Bill Shirley wrote: You didn't post the command or its output.  How can anyone help you? What's the output of these two commands? ip -o -4 addr ip -o -4 route Bill ip -o -4 addr 1: lo    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo\   valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2:

Re: Fedora27: Cannot set the default network route

2018-02-02 Thread Terry Barnaby
I tied using "ip route" it had the same effect. On 02/02/18 14:21, Bill Shirley wrote: Use 'ip' and add the dev parameter: ip route add default 173.xxx.yyy.zzz dev ccast man route: NOTE    This program is obsolete. For replacement check ip route. Bill On 2/2/2018 8:42 AM, Ter

Fedora27: Cannot set the default network route

2018-02-02 Thread Terry Barnaby
A strange one this. I was trying to change the default route of a machine for testing a different gateway. I ran: route del default gw route add default gw However the second command did not add the route and I could not add the old default route back. There were no errors on stdout or in

Re: fedora27: ypbind intermittent startup

2018-02-01 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 02/02/18 07:42, Terry Barnaby wrote: On 02/02/18 00:41, Ed Greshko wrote: I've not tried this since I don't have a need for ypbind. One may also consider copying /lib/systemd/system/ypbind.service to /etc/systemd/system and then inserting the line, ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/sleep 5  From

Re: fedora27: ypbind intermittent startup

2018-02-01 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 02/02/18 00:41, Ed Greshko wrote: I've not tried this since I don't have a need for ypbind. One may also consider copying /lib/systemd/system/ypbind.service to /etc/systemd/system and then inserting the line, ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/sleep 5 From the systemd documentation ExecStart=

fedora27: ypbind intermittent startup

2018-02-01 Thread Terry Barnaby
I am finding on my systems that ypbind is failing occasionally at boot (about 30% of the time). [  OK  ] Started Network Manager Wait Online. [  OK  ] Reached target Network is Online. Mounting /src... Mounting /scratch... Starting NIS/YP (Network Information Service)

Re: Fedora27: NFS v4 terrible write performance

2018-01-29 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 30/01/18 00:32, Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/29/18 17:40, Terry Barnaby wrote: Now I understand that NFS's latency with writes is a performance bottleneck, but in the past I have used the "async" mount option to good effect to minimise this. It does not appear to have any effect on

Re: Fedora27: NFS v4 terrible write performance

2018-01-29 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 29/01/18 09:05, Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/29/18 15:47, Terry Barnaby wrote: On 19/01/18 15:11, Terry Barnaby wrote: When doing a tar -xzf ... of a big source tar on an NFSv4 file system the time taken is huge. I am seeing an overall data rate of about 1 MByte per second across the network

Re: Fedora27: NFS v4 terrible write performance

2018-01-28 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 19/01/18 15:11, Terry Barnaby wrote: When doing a tar -xzf ... of a big source tar on an NFSv4 file system the time taken is huge. I am seeing an overall data rate of about 1 MByte per second across the network interface. If I copy a single large file I see a network data rate of about 110

Fedora27: NFS v4 terrible write performance

2018-01-19 Thread Terry Barnaby
When doing a tar -xzf ... of a big source tar on an NFSv4 file system the time taken is huge. I am seeing an overall data rate of about 1 MByte per second across the network interface. If I copy a single large file I see a network data rate of about 110 MBytes/sec which is about the limit of

Re: Fedora27: Firefox freezes

2018-01-03 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 01/01/18 20:53, Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/02/18 04:42, Terry Barnaby wrote: On 01/01/18 20:38, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/01/2018 12:15 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: I don't think it is that one. The display is fine all other applications run fine. Its just that the Firefox tab does not load any

Re: Fedora27: Firefox freezes

2018-01-01 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 01/01/18 20:38, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/01/2018 12:15 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: I don't think it is that one. The display is fine all other applications run fine. Its just that the Firefox tab does not load any content for a while. I can still operate Firefox clicking on things etc

Re: Fedora27: Firefox freezes

2018-01-01 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 01/01/18 18:08, Stephen Perkins wrote: I had the same problem with FF 57 on Fedora 26; found solution on FF forum: go to about:config and set accessibility.force_disabled = 1 (it's 0 by default) worked for me. On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Terry Barnaby <ter...@beam.ltd.uk <mail

Re: Fedora27: Firefox freezes

2018-01-01 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 01/01/18 17:30, Peter Gueckel wrote: It sounds like this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1529922 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org I don't

Re: Fedora27: Firefox freezes

2018-01-01 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 01/01/18 15:07, George N. White III wrote: On 1 January 2018 at 09:27, Fred Smith <fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us <mailto:fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>> wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 12:00:59PM +, Terry Barnaby wrote: > Is anyone else seeing issues with Fire

Fedora27: Firefox freezes

2018-01-01 Thread Terry Barnaby
Is anyone else seeing issues with Firefox freezing up for 30secs or more when web pages are opened in TABS ? Since the latest Firefox 57 this is happening a lot for me (every 10 mins or so). Seems to lockup while downloading the page. You can still operate Firefox by clicking on menu's/Tab's

Re: Fedora25: SDDM not showing NIS accounts

2016-12-05 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 05/12/16 08:38, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/05/2016 09:12 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/04/2016 11:54 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: On 05/12/16 06:43, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/04/2016 07:42 AM, Terry Barnaby wrote: In F25 the SDDM no longer shows a list of users when NIS (ypbind) is enabled

Re: Fedora25: SDDM not showing NIS accounts

2016-12-04 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 05/12/16 06:43, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/04/2016 07:42 AM, Terry Barnaby wrote: In F25 the SDDM no longer shows a list of users when NIS (ypbind) is enabled and also it does not default to the last user logged in. kdm appears to be the same (with UserList=true in /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc

Fedora25: SDDM not showing NIS accounts

2016-12-04 Thread Terry Barnaby
In F25 the SDDM no longer shows a list of users when NIS (ypbind) is enabled and also it does not default to the last user logged in. kdm appears to be the same (with UserList=true in /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc). Note this is on a KDE spin install, but I assume the SDDM would be the same as for a

F19: thunderbird-24.5.0-1.fc19.i686.rpm package issue

2014-05-06 Thread Terry Barnaby
Hasn't anyone else come across the problem with a corrupted current thunderbird-24.5.0-1.fc19.i686.rpm package in the updates repository ? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1093927 Big issue here is that it has a duff MD5 checksum but yum/rpm still tries to install it ... -- users

Re: F19: thunderbird-24.5.0-1.fc19.i686.rpm package issue

2014-05-06 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 05/06/2014 08:02 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/06/2014 12:26 AM, Terry Barnaby wrote: Hasn't anyone else come across the problem with a corrupted current thunderbird-24.5.0-1.fc19.i686.rpm package in the updates repository ? Yeah. It's an inconvenience, but as long as yumex handles the rest

Re: Building X11R6.8 in Fedora 15 - Flex not found

2011-09-27 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 09/27/2011 04:42 PM, Doug Kuvaas wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Don Quixote de la Mancha quix...@dulcineatech.com wrote: X11 is supposed to be upwards binary compatible. If it won't run old applications, you should file a bug with Fedora. If you can figure out what the

Re: Developers responsibillity to Fedora Users

2011-09-27 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 09/27/2011 02:00 PM, Ian Malone wrote: On 27 September 2011 10:59, Andrew Haleya...@redhat.com wrote: On 09/26/2011 11:59 PM, Roger wrote: Some say that the new Fedora GUI is unhelpful and possibly difficult to use, preferring a simpler desktop. Ahh, this is all about GNOME 3. It's

Re: Fedora14: Very very slow NFS write performance

2011-09-26 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 09/26/2011 01:08 PM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: On 09/25/2011 05:45 AM, Terry Barnaby wrote: Anyone know why the NFS write performance with Fedora14 may be slow (without async) ? I have Gigabit networking which is all working fine and the systems in question have been running Fedora

Re: Building X11R6.8 in Fedora 15 - Flex not found

2011-09-26 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 09/26/2011 09:49 PM, Doug Kuvaas wrote: I am trying to build an older version of X Server on Fedora 15 to allow me to run a legacy application. Fedora 8, which functions correctly for our application, will not install on a new computer for some reason, presumably because the new hardware

Re: Building X11R6.8 in Fedora 15 - Flex not found

2011-09-26 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 09/26/2011 10:15 PM, Doug Kuvaas wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Terry Barnabyter...@beam.ltd.uk wrote: On 09/26/2011 09:49 PM, Doug Kuvaas wrote: I am trying to build an older version of X Server on Fedora 15 to allow me to run a legacy application. Fedora 8, which functions

Fedora14: Very very slow NFS write performance

2011-09-25 Thread Terry Barnaby
Anyone know why the NFS write performance with Fedora14 may be slow (without async) ? I have Gigabit networking which is all working fine and the systems in question have been running Fedora in various forms for many years. Writing a single large file across NFS is fine, about: 32MBytes/sec

Re: Fedora14: Very very slow NFS write performance

2011-09-25 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 09/25/2011 04:39 PM, JB wrote: Terry Barnabyterry1at beam.ltd.uk writes: ... It would be useful to publish a test for # Test4, defaults: nfs version 3 that is with sync option, so we could see if similar degradation was present with older protocol ? One other thing: it would be

Re: Fedora14: Very very slow NFS write performance

2011-09-25 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 09/25/2011 06:13 PM, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: Are you using userspace NFS or the kernel NFS? The kernel NFS _should_ be faster. On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Terry Barnabyter...@beam.ltd.uk wrote: I wonder if NFS is doing a complete sync() to disk on each file close ?? If

Re: Fedora14: Very very slow NFS write performance

2011-09-25 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 09/25/2011 06:41 PM, JB wrote: Terry Barnabyterry1at beam.ltd.uk writes: ... # Test1, defaults: nfs version 4, sync Server /etc/exports: /data *.kingnet(rw) Client /etc/fstab: king.kingnet:/data /data nfs defaults 0 0 dd if=/tmp/data.bin of=/data/tmp/data.bin bs=102400 32.9 MB/s

Re: Fedora14: Very very slow NFS write performance

2011-09-25 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 09/25/2011 07:03 PM, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: Try writing to a different type of filesystem. It might be the filesystem's fault. MacTCP on the Classic Mac OS got a real bad rap because FTP writes were very slow, but it was easy to show that the problem was in the Heirarchical

Fedora14: udev and $tempnode

2011-04-19 Thread Terry Barnaby
Hi, I am trying to get the Xilinx FPGA tools USB cables running under Fedora14 and have come up against a problem. The Xilinx system includes a udev rules file that has a line entry like: SUBSYSTEMS==usb, ACTION==add, ATTRS{idVendor}==03fd, ATTRS{idProduct}==000d, RUN+=/sbin/fxload -v -t fx2 -I

Re: Advanced format drives with block errors

2011-02-06 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 02/05/2011 08:28 PM, compdoc wrote: One of these drives had a faulty block which the drive had not been able to automatically relocate. Just curious, what's the reallocated sector count for the drive? And how many bad sectors do you feel comfortable with? I used to live with drives with

Advanced format drives with block errors

2011-02-05 Thread Terry Barnaby
Hi, Just a bit of info. I have some Western Digital Caviar Green (Adv. Format), WD20EARS drives. These have the new 4096 byte physical sector. One of these drives had a faulty block which the drive had not been able to automatically relocate. I tried to force a relocation by overwriting the

Re: Fedora 14: Shutdown problem

2011-02-04 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 02/04/2011 12:21 PM, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 20:47 +, Terry Barnaby wrote: There is no need for NetworkManager in a home network anyway, it just adds complications, gets in the way and consumes resources. Maybe on *your* home network. But it's good for mine, and when I take

Re: Fedora 14: Shutdown problem

2011-02-03 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 02/01/2011 06:30 PM, JB wrote: Terry Barnabyterry1at beam.ltd.uk writes: ... Note I am using the network not NetworkManager service. The NetworkManager service does not work well for me with systems using networked /home and other file systems. ... Looks like the reason for this

Re: Fedora 14: Shutdown problem

2011-01-30 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 01/29/2011 11:42 PM, JB wrote: Terry Barnabyterry1at beam.ltd.uk writes: ... Give us unedited outputs: $ cat /etc/fstab $ cat /etc/mtab $ cat /proc/mounts JB The above files: /etc/fstab = # # /etc/fstab # Created by anaconda on Fri Nov

Re: Fedora 14: Shutdown problem

2011-01-30 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 01/30/2011 02:11 PM, JB wrote: JBjb.1234abcdat gmail.com writes: # # debugging snapshot statements # date /halt.debug cat /etc/mtab /halt.debug cat

Re: Fedora 14: Shutdown problem

2011-01-30 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 01/30/2011 05:55 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: On 01/30/2011 02:11 PM, JB wrote: JBjb.1234abcdat gmail.com writes: # # debugging snapshot statements # date

Re: Fedora 14: Shutdown problem

2011-01-30 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 01/30/2011 06:51 PM, JB wrote: Terry Barnabyterry1at beam.ltd.uk writes: ... Firstly, I have to re-correct myself - my original debugging statemets were correct. I checked it on my machine and /proc/mounts is still available, so we should include it as it has more info than /etc/mtab.

Re: Fedora 14: Shutdown problem

2011-01-30 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 01/30/2011 08:40 PM, JB wrote: Terry Barnabyterry1at beam.ltd.uk writes: ... Your analysis is very plausible. I remember from Slackware (many years ago ...) - it took explicit steps to TERM active processes, reasonably waited for them, and then killed them. I tried to follow the

Fedora 14: Shutdown problem

2011-01-29 Thread Terry Barnaby
Hi, About 1 in 4 times Fedora 14 hangs during shutdown on at least 4 of my systems. Looking at the shutdown messages (ESC in the splash screen) and adding some debug statements to /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/S01halt, it hangs after the messages: Unmounting file systems init: Re-executing

Re: Fedora14: Strange and intermittent very slow disks on server

2010-12-19 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 12/18/2010 04:02 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Saturday, December 18, 2010 03:08:45 am Terry Barnaby wrote: It is strange, however, how the system can run perfectly fine with good fast disk IO for a while and then go into this slow mode. In the slow mode a command can take 30seconds or more

Re: Fedora14: Strange and intermittent very slow disks on server

2010-12-18 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 12/18/2010 12:00 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Friday, December 17, 2010 06:14:31 pm Terry Barnaby wrote: The two main RAID1 disks are WD10EARS (Green). I have seen reported some issues with the performance of these but in my case they appear to work fine when the system is running ok. [snip

Fedora14: Strange and intermittent very slow disks on server

2010-12-17 Thread Terry Barnaby
This is a strange one. I have a home server (Pentium Core 2, Intel ICH10, 1G RAM, 2x SATA 1TByte disks in Raid1, 1x 2TByte SATA and 1 x 1TByte SATA). This is used for normal NFS and MythTv usage as well as httpd, network routing openvpn etc. It has been running for about 2 years and 1 year under

Re: FC14 good/bad news

2010-11-29 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 11/28/2010 10:52 PM, Hiisi wrote: su, 2010-11-28 kello 20:06 +, Terry Barnaby kirjoitti: This is not so important as running 3D apps though. Blender will not run on either of these systems (huge delays when posting menus etc). Mind you on Intel I945 hardware blender just causes the X

Re: FC14 good/bad news

2010-11-28 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 11/28/2010 07:22 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:48:34 -0500, Bill Davidsendavid...@tmr.com wrote: It absolutely is, possibly I should have mentioned that. But it is not intuitive that accelerated video drivers would map to lower frame rates and less smooth screen

Fedora14 Audio mixers in KDE

2010-11-26 Thread Terry Barnaby
I have just updated some systems for Fedora12 to Fedora14. All has gone well and is working well, so far, except that I don't seem to be able to control the mixer on the sound hardware. Sound is working, in that I get the login music, beeps etc. Specifically I want to listen to audio from the

Fedora14 3D graphics with ATI, very very slow

2010-11-26 Thread Terry Barnaby
Hi, I have just updated from Fedora12 to Fedora14 on a few systems. There is a problem with 3D graphics on at least two of these systems. The one I am currently using has: 08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV535 [Radeon X1650 Series] (rev 9e) OpenGL renderer string:

F14: system-config-kickstart: Could not open display because no X server is running

2010-11-09 Thread Terry Barnaby
The system-config-kickstart utility gives the error Could not open display because no X server is running when started on the command line from a terminal in X. (Does not work from the menus either). Any ideas ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: F14: system-config-kickstart: Could not open display because no X server is running

2010-11-09 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 11/09/2010 03:13 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: The system-config-kickstart utility gives the error Could not open display because no X server is running when started on the command line from a terminal in X. (Does not work from the menus either). Any ideas ? Just found

Re: Fedora 14 Kickstart Problems

2010-11-08 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 11/08/2010 01:09 PM, Bernd Nies wrote: Hi, Im trying to do automated installation with Fedora 14 kickstart and the configuration [2] shown at the end of this message. The installation never runs through. Anaconda still displays these screens and waits for user input: - Welcome

Re: Fedora 14 Kickstart Problems

2010-11-08 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 11/08/2010 01:48 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: Hi, In the past I have used the following to enable/disable the post installation screens. (With YES/NO). %post echo RUN_FIRSTBOOT=NO /etc/sysconfig/firstboot The kickstart password setting command: rootpw --iscrypted encrypted password

Re: Fedora14: Problme with pungi ?

2010-11-06 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 11/05/2010 06:52 PM, mike cloaked wrote: On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Terry Barnaby ter...@beam.ltd.uk wrote: I am trying to track this down. Running the low level /usr/libexec/anaconda/buildinstall script gives me errors saying that strip is missing (No errors seen running pungi

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