Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-24 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Heinz Diehl h...@fritha.org wrote: On 21.07.2014, Tom H wrote: The method that I suggested is right There's no wrong or right. It's just one way to do it (not mine). But of course, it can be the way for others. It's perfectly fine to build a kernel by using

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.07.2014, Paul Cartwright wrote: what is it I am symlinking?? the actual kernel?? If you need to: the root directory of the kernel source. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.07.2014, Joe Zeff wrote: If you really need to put it on a spare partition, you can always move everything there from /usr/src and then mount that partition at /usr/src and go from there. And don't forget to take a look into /lib/modules and update the (now) incorrect symlinks to the

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-22 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Paul Cartwright pbcartwri...@gmail.com wrote: is there some command I don't know about that will let you swap to the latest kernel without rebooting? What problems one could face if I were to not reboot my system for a while and let it update a few kernel

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-22 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:56:00 +0530 Sudhir Khanger sud...@sudhirkhanger.com wrote: What problems one could face if I were to not reboot my system for a while and let it update a few kernel versions? Well, for example, a kernel update might be due to some new severe security exploit, and the

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-22 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 13:25 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote: In theory, for each kernel update you could look at the changelog to see what was actually updated and why, and then decide if you need to run the updated kernel or not. But most people typically don't want to invest the time and effort

new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
Is it me, or does every other update lately seem to include a new kernel.. I thought linux was meant to stay up running. I seem to be rebooting weekly now, just for a new kernel. Now on: uname -a Linux pauls-server 3.15.6-200.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jul 18 02:36:27 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Digimer
On 21/07/14 06:41 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: Is it me, or does every other update lately seem to include a new kernel.. I thought linux was meant to stay up running. I seem to be rebooting weekly now, just for a new kernel. Now on: uname -a Linux pauls-server 3.15.6-200.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Paul Cartwright writes: is there some command I don't know about that will let you swap to the latest kernel without rebooting??? No. The only way to switch kernels is a reboot. pgpg1Fk0Qs3Zn.pgp Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Timothy Murphy
Digimer wrote: is there some command I don't know about that will let you swap to the latest kernel without rebooting??? Fedora is not a server OS. It's a bleeding-edge distro and as such, changes often. If you want stability, use RHEL/CentOS. Far fewer kernel updates there. As a matter or

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Digimer
On 21/07/14 07:11 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Digimer wrote: is there some command I don't know about that will let you swap to the latest kernel without rebooting??? Fedora is not a server OS. It's a bleeding-edge distro and as such, changes often. If you want stability, use RHEL/CentOS. Far

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Alchemist
2014-07-21 13:41 GMT+03:00 Paul Cartwright pbcartwri...@gmail.com: Is it me, or does every other update lately seem to include a new kernel.. I thought linux was meant to stay up running. I seem to be rebooting weekly now, just for a new kernel. Now on: uname -a Linux pauls-server

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 07/21/2014 07:19 AM, Alchemist wrote: You can do fast-reboot by using kexec https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kernel/kexec thanks, good info! I don't have a problem with the speed of reboots, I just do init 6 from command line.. It just seems that all I have been doing lately is rebooting,

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2014-07-21 at 07:29 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 07/21/2014 07:19 AM, Alchemist wrote: You can do fast-reboot by using kexec https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kernel/kexec thanks, good info! I don't have a problem with the speed of reboots, I just do init 6 from command

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 06:41:05 -0400, Paul Cartwright pbcartwri...@gmail.com wrote: Is it me, or does every other update lately seem to include a new kernel.. I thought linux was meant to stay up running. I seem to be rebooting weekly now, just for a new kernel. Now on: We'll you could

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 07/21/2014 08:18 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: Is it me, or does every other update lately seem to include a new kernel.. I thought linux was meant to stay up running. I seem to be rebooting weekly now, just for a new kernel. Now on: We'll you could keep running the older kernel. Depending

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 07/21/2014 07:42 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: thanks, good info! I don't have a problem with the speed of reboots, I just do init 6 from command line.. It just seems that all I have been doing lately is rebooting, and setting up all the windows I keep open.. 3 kernels in 10 days..

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.07.2014, Paul Cartwright wrote: Is it me, or does every other update lately seem to include a new kernel.. I thought linux was meant to stay up running. I seem to be rebooting weekly now, just for a new kernel. I've never used any Fedora kernel any longer than for the first install.

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread poma
On 21.07.2014 12:41, Paul Cartwright wrote: ... in less than 10 days.. Such rapid upgrades are actually commendable! :) This is the very reason why people drive Ferrari. poma -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread poma
On 21.07.2014 15:35, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 21.07.2014, Paul Cartwright wrote: Is it me, or does every other update lately seem to include a new kernel.. I thought linux was meant to stay up running. I seem to be rebooting weekly now, just for a new kernel. I've never used any Fedora kernel

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.07.2014, poma wrote: Your expertise with kernel would be very welcome for the Fedora kernel also, when you offer Heinz. ;) Here's what I'm doing (and what I basically have been doing in many years): 1. Download a kernel from kernel.org 2. Extract it into /usr/src 3. Apply some minor

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread poma
On 21.07.2014 18:37, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 21.07.2014, poma wrote: Your expertise with kernel would be very welcome for the Fedora kernel also, when you offer Heinz. ;) Here's what I'm doing (and what I basically have been doing in many years): 1. Download a kernel from kernel.org 2.

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Heinz Diehl h...@fritha.org wrote: On 21.07.2014, poma wrote: Your expertise with kernel would be very welcome for the Fedora kernel also, when you offer Heinz. ;) Here's what I'm doing (and what I basically have been doing in many years): 1. Download a

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 18:37:58 +0200 Heinz Diehl h...@fritha.org wrote: Here's what I'm doing (and what I basically have been doing in many years): [snip] In short: a simple kernel compile/install. Your kernel will live peacefully alongside with your distribution kernel(s). What is the

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.07.2014, poma wrote: Do you have any .config item worth mentioning, something you recommend or vice versa? Nope. Every config is different, and so is the machine which it will be installed on, and the preferences of the one who uses it. It's a learning experience for anybody who's new

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 07/21/2014 02:12 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: Do you have any .config item worth mentioning, something you recommend or vice versa? Nope. Every config is different, and so is the machine which it will be installed on, and the preferences of the one who uses it. It's a learning experience for

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.07.2014, Tom H wrote: You'd be better off replacing the second step 5 by make rpm-pkg and the last step 5 and step 6 by rpm -i No, I wouldn't. My .config is highly customized, and the way I described just fits my needs perfectly. I'm quite aware of the possibility to build a kernel

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.07.2014, Marko Vojinovic wrote: What is the purpose of installing a non-Fedora kernel, in your case? Coming from SLS, slackware and yggdrasil way back in time, it's how it has been for me all the time. I have my configs, scripts and so on. I kept them over time, and they just work :-)

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.07.2014, Paul Cartwright wrote: my / file system ran out of space. I had 5.8Gb free before I started this.. Your root partition is way too small for kernel development. [root@kiera src]# du -ch linux-3.15.6-rc1 [] 4.1G total -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 07/21/2014 02:47 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: my / file system ran out of space. I had 5.8Gb free before I started this.. Your root partition is way too small for kernel development. that would be something to take into consideration... I thought 5.8Gb of free space is PLENTY.. you say to put it

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Heinz Diehl h...@fritha.org wrote: On 21.07.2014, Tom H wrote: You'd be better off replacing the second step 5 by make rpm-pkg and the last step 5 and step 6 by rpm -i No, I wouldn't. My .config is highly customized, and the way I described just fits my

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 07/21/2014 03:19 PM, Tom H wrote: You'd still be able to use your config - the first step 5. The method that I suggested is right because (and I made a mistake earlier and shouldn't have suggested that you use rpm) you can install your kernel with yum install ... and remove it with yum

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Paul Cartwright pbcartwri...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/21/2014 03:19 PM, Tom H wrote: You'd still be able to use your config - the first step 5. The method that I suggested is right because (and I made a mistake earlier and shouldn't have suggested that you use

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.07.2014, Paul Cartwright wrote: you say to put it in /usr/src. Can I put it in a spare partition that has more space?? does it need to be in /usr/src?? You can most probably have it where you want it to. If something expects it to be in /usr/src, you can create a symlink. -- users

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.07.2014, Tom H wrote: The method that I suggested is right There's no wrong or right. It's just one way to do it (not mine). But of course, it can be the way for others. It's perfectly fine to build a kernel by using rpm an manage it using yum, but it's not what I prefer. because (and

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 07/21/2014 04:26 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: You can most probably have it where you want it to. If something expects it to be in /usr/src, you can create a symlink. what is it I am symlinking?? the actual kernel?? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587 --

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/21/2014 01:26 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 21.07.2014, Paul Cartwright wrote: you say to put it in /usr/src. Can I put it in a spare partition that has more space?? does it need to be in /usr/src?? You can most probably have it where you want it to. If something expects it to be in