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grub and /boot partition

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 09:42 PM PDT

John Hasler wrote: 

That's why most systems use default ext3. Because ext* is fairly simple, *and*
because maintaining multiple types of filesystems if itself fragile. Simply
using ext3 and possibly ext2 allows the use of partition labeling, which is a
real savior when your disks get re-arranged due to SCSI controller changes.

System cannot come back from suspend (Fedora 9)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 08:36 PM PDT

#Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc

Below, the "at" symbol (Shift-2) has been changed to "(at)"

Mark Roberts <markrobt+usenet(at)gmail.com> wrote: 

Permission to post articles on the usenet that are not archived is explicitly
denied.

I can't help but wonder why you didn't use the X-No-Archive: yes header.
That's what most people do when they don't their articles archived.

Not that it would do you any good if someone like me who despises selfish
creeps like you who don't want others to share the insight into linux
their thread generates sees your post.

My filter marks all such posts with a unique score.

Sid

The case of the vanishing password

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 07:51 PM PDT

Matt Giwer wrote: 

Slow down, and isolate the problem as being password related rather than a
Gnome issue. Can you log into a plain, *text* login, by hitting 'Ctrl-Alt-F2'
and logging in at the text screen. gdm and other window managers can become
quite confused by uid changes (if you have a local account that has a uid that
conflicts with NIS or LDAP published information), hostname changes (as part
of network configuration after the machine boots), and other fascinating issues.

Also, if you're using a normally configured Kerberos or Winbind, your password
will be locked for a while if you type it in wrong a few times. Wait about 15
minutes in most setups, and you should be able to log in again.

Configuring DHCP to provide kernel and initrd for netboot

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 04:35 AM PDT

"Magnate" <here> wrote 
[snip] 

Yes!! It works like a dream. PXE clients boot into the latest Lenny
installer, and DHCP clients still get an IP address.

Now I just need to set up DNS updating ... and find a solution for older
(non-PXE) netboot clients ...

Ho hum. Nice when a place comes together.

CC

Raid 5

Posted: 07 Oct 2008 07:03 PM PDT

Andrew Halliwell wrote: 

RAID5 only saves a disk if you don't have a hotswap disk. I've had unfortunate
experience with RAID, where disks begin to fail at the same time due to
overall identical usage, similar to what Google described in their whitepaper
on disk failures.

Purchasing Linux Tech Support

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 05:32 PM PDT

General Schvantzkopf wrote: 

CentOS, and RHEL 5, in my observation, always lag Fedora by at least 12 months
in major system components. This makes using a new tool (such as Nagios,
Subversion, OpenSSH 5, or components that rely on PHP 5) quite awkward, and
leads to dependency hell.

Problems with Fedora Core 9 ???

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 05:27 PM PDT

On Oct 6, 3:11pm, Robert Heller <com> wrote: 

Sorry guys that said Fedora isn't stable, I don't agree with you, This
seems strange to me, I work with fedora since the first day they
released it almost without any problems. As a user at home and as a
system admin. It's really nice and doing very good job to me and to my
friends and company. Iam talking from Fedora 9 at my pc at work and I
havn't went to ant problems from the day I installed it, Also at home
Fedora 8 still installed and very nice. 1 of my servers is Fedora 5 64
bit and working fine from more than 2 years and it service a network
for a company which has 200 pc as clients for that machine. Also I
configured a Qmail server for a company on Fedora 9 from some months,
It works fine without any complains.
But I see ubuntu isn't good for servers as some of my friends really
faced many problems using it, I see it's not stable as Debian or
Fedora of course, But it's an easy distro to play with, So I advice
any new user to Linux meet me or ask to use it.
Regards,

GRUB, MBR, Ubuntu

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 12:26 AM PDT

porvoon wrote: 

That was a dive-by troll. Ignore him.

tulip_cb.o lost

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 10:08 AM PDT

On Sat, 04 Oct 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.networking
in article <fr> and in the Usenet
newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup in article
<fr>, Bernard wrote:

[Please do not post the same article to multiple newsgroups.]
 

That file MAY have been part of the kernel, or pcmcia support package:

9609647 Sep 7 16:29 kernel-2.4.7-10.i386.rpm
287679 Sep 7 16:30 kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.27-10.i386.rpm

that's the 7 year old "out-of-box" packages

kernel-2.4.20-30.7.legacy.i386.rpm 21-Feb-2004 03:07 12M

but I don't see a kernel-pcmcia-cs package on the errata list. Ahh,
run the command ' rpm -qf /path/to/tulip_cb.o ' and that will tell
you which package the missing file came from. If you have that package
and 'midnight commander'

903764 Sep 7 16:49 gmc-4.5.51-36.i386.rpm
1507098 Sep 7 16:49 mc-4.5.51-36.i386.rpm

gmc 4.5.51 The GNOME version of the Midnight Commander file manager.
mc 4.5.51 A user-friendly file manager and visual shell.

you can use that utility to extract the file from the appropriate rpm.

Good Luck!

Old guy

Ethernet card identification

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 07:28 AM PDT


On Sat, 04 Oct 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc in article
<gc7u7b$toc$localdomain>, and in the Usenet newsgroup
comp.os.linux.setup in article <gc7u9o$toc$localdomain>,
"J.H.Kim" wrote:

[Please do not post the same article to multiple newsgroups. Please
look at the newsgroup charter (or summary) where comp.os.linux.misc is
specified for "Linux-specific topics not covered by other groups".
This is more on topic in 'comp.os.linux.networking', or because it's a
setup problem, 'comp.os.linux.setup'. Followups set.]
 

Not enough details - what do you see in /var/log/messages at boot time
related to eth0? Is the card recognized? What _kind_ of card is this?
What driver has been selected?
 

That only means that the kernel network stack is operating, and that
'ping' is usable. It has nothing to do with the network _card_ because
the address is 'localhost' and when you are trying to talk to yourself
there is no need to even have a ethernet, token-ring, fddi, or ppp
interface.
 

1. /var/log/messages Is it seen? Is the "right" driver used? Any
error messages?

2. /sbin/ifconfig -a Is the interface shown? Can you see something
that looks realistic as a "HWaddr"? Packet counts for TX and RX -
are any shown? Any error counts above zero?

3. Do you have any firewall settings? (This really shouldn't be the
problem, but it's something to check.
 

Does the card accept this mode of operation?

Old guy

pcmcia EtherJet card problems in RedHat 7.2

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 06:14 AM PDT

Bernard wrote: 

RedHat 7.x is *dead*, I say, *DEAD*. Stop wasting your time with it, it's no
longer considered secure or reliable and will not get critical updates,
especially for hardware drivers.

And if you have to use 7.x jump to 7.3.

How do I get rid of GRUB???

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 12:15 AM PDT

ArameFarpado wrote: 

This is comp.os.linux.setup, not 'comp.os.linux.hire.consultants'. Playing
with things is how we learn.

yum update problem - avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7

Posted: 29 Sep 2008 10:35 PM PDT

Works for me too. Highly recommended if you're having a similar
problem, my avahi-autoipd-0.6.22-10.fc9.i386 was conflicting with
avahi-0.6.16-4.fc6.i386

I performed the following steps (as root)
rpm -U --replacepkgs avahi-autoipd-0.6.22-10.fc9.i386
This complained about the old fc6 package, so I did
rpm -e --noscripts avahi-0.6.16-4.fc6.i386
Then did the first command again:
rpm -U --replacepkgs avahi-autoipd-0.6.22-10.fc9.i386
which worked without error.
I then did:
yum update
worked fine, with no complaints.




On Sep 30, 9:02pm, Nico Kadel-Garcia <com> wrote: