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Vinicius Lobosco
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Fri Aug 13 07:59:47 UTC 2004
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> 1. Re: VMware & FC2 - Thinks CD drives are removable disks?
> (Rodney Gordon II)
> 2. Why can I only do 1152x864 in KDE? (Andrew Konosky)
> 3. Re: MORE SSH Hacking: heads-up (Aaron Gaudio)
> 4. Re: Why can I only do 1152x864 in KDE? (Dennis Gilmore)
> 5. Re: Cannot install FC2 (Timothy Murphy)
> 6. Re: 2.6.7 kernel (Timothy Murphy)
> 7. Re: Yum has screwed up my system :-( (Carroll Grigsby)
> 8. Re: Documentation of services (Aaron Gaudio)
> 9. Re: The best Live CD (RoboticGolem)
> 10. Re: Fedora Locks Up on Logout (RoboticGolem)
> 11. Re: mozilla help/about (no version number)-SOLVED (Gene Smith)
> 12. top system utility bug (a.sulaiman)
> 13. Re: Cannot install FC2 (Carroll Grigsby)
> 14. Re: MORE SSH Hacking: heads-up (Dave Rinker)
> 15. Re: New Hard Disk (Pedro Fernandes Macedo)
> 16. File System Error (Hiroyuki KOIKE)
> 17. Re: FC2-i386-disc2.iso has error (Edward)
> 18. Re: Cannot install FC2 (Thomas Cameron)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 22:01:26 -0500
> From: Rodney Gordon II <meff at pobox.com>
> Subject: Re: VMware & FC2 - Thinks CD drives are removable disks?
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <20040813030126.GA5368 at ghreen.sphere>
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> On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 09:37:01AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > > You might need to play with some of the VM Settings, if I recall
> > > correctly.
> > >
> > > As I check mine (I am also FC2 Host, VMWare 4.5.2-8848), the DVD/CD-ROM
> > > Settings are:
> > >
> > > Device Status
> > > Connect at Power On
> > > Connection
> > > Use a physical drive:
> > > Device: /dev/cdrom
> > > Legacy emulation
> > > Virtual device node
> > > IDE: IDE 1:0
> > >
> > > I know some folks have had to twiddle the Legacy emulation part at
> > > different times. There have also been problems in porting Guest VMs
> >
> > Dittto on the legacy emulation (vmware on fc2)
>
> http://www.vmware.com/support/ws45/doc/disks_add_ws.html#1048955 for
> more information on this, thanks for the tip-off on the legacy
> emulation stuff..
>
> Now I just wonder when they'll release a version that can read the IDE
> drives in raw..
>
> -r
>
> --
> Rodney "meff" Gordon II -+- meff <at> pobox <dot> com
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 22:05:42 -0500
> From: Andrew Konosky <TerranAce007 at comcast.net>
> Subject: Why can I only do 1152x864 in KDE?
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <411C3006.1080307 at comcast.net>
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> My system can do up to 1920x1440 resolution, but I usually run my
> desktop at 1152x864. I tried to raise it up to 1280x960 just now, and
> 1152x864 is the highest the KDE control panel will go. Also, it is set
> to use display1, and it's greyed out so i can't change it. I went into
> the xorg.conf file and added all my resolutions up to 1600x1200 and
> logged out and back into KDE again, but still no higher resolutions?
> Whats up with this?
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:01:44 -0400
> From: Aaron Gaudio <prothonotar at tarnation.dyndns.org>
> Subject: Re: MORE SSH Hacking: heads-up
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <1092366104.1996.9.camel at localhost.localdomain>
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> On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 19:59 -0400, Dave Rinker wrote:
> > funny to still see this thread running.
> >
> > Your conversation of the su issue prompted me to look for an exploit.
> > Found this linux "su" exploit that copies the passwords to /tmp/.tmp
> >
> > The only problem is you'd have to get it there first.
> >
> > http://packetstormsecurity.nl/groups/shadowpenguin/unix-tools/passwd_linux.c
> >
> >
> > Has anyone used my iptables suggestion with success?
> >
>
> Perhaps I'm being daft, but the exploit appears to be a 'passwd' trojan,
> not an su trojan. And the attacker would need to get it in a place where
> it would get inadvertently run (preferably by root).
>
> --
> Aaron Gaudio <prothonotar at tarnation.dyndns.org>
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 22:07:00 -0500
> From: Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us>
> Subject: Re: Why can I only do 1152x864 in KDE?
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <200408122207.07500.dennis at ausil.us>
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> Once upon a time Thursday 12 August 2004 10:05 pm, Andrew Konosky wrote:
> > My system can do up to 1920x1440 resolution, but I usually run my
> > desktop at 1152x864. I tried to raise it up to 1280x960 just now, and
> > 1152x864 is the highest the KDE control panel will go. Also, it is set
> > to use display1, and it's greyed out so i can't change it. I went into
> > the xorg.conf file and added all my resolutions up to 1600x1200 and
> > logged out and back into KDE again, but still no higher resolutions?
> > Whats up with this?
> i run KDE at 1400x1050 after you reconfigured X to go to the higher
> resolution did you restart X? logging out does not restart the x server.
>
> Dennis
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> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:49:46 +0100
> From: Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie>
> Subject: Re: Cannot install FC2
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
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> Bill Tetens wrote:
>
> > Some more info.. Just for ?GEE Whizz I moved the CD Rom to the primary
> > IDE with the HDD. The HDD is master and the CD is slave. No help.
> >
> > I realized that I did have a self boot disc and hunted it up. It is a
> > copy of KNOPPIX that runs from the CD and it fired up just fine.
> >
> > Hope some of this helps. Maybe It would be better if I ordered a copy
> > of the Fedora FC2 if it is available on the internet. Maybe the whole
> > problem is with the CD's I made?????
>
> If you have access to another machine
> you could pop your CD in, and see if it boots.
>
> Also if Knoppix works, you could probably use it to transfer
> the FC ISOs to the hard disk, and install from the hard disk.
> (Rather awkward, but possible I think.)
>
>
> --
> Timothy Murphy
> e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
> tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
> s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
>
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:27:12 +0100
> From: Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie>
> Subject: Re: 2.6.7 kernel
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Message-ID: <cfgqts$q4c$1 at sea.gmane.org>
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> Simon Andrews wrote:
>
> > Mark Haney wrote:
> >> I take it the 2.6.7 kernel can't be setup to boot with a boot floppy
> >> using mkbootdisk? I've been trying for 3 days now and can't get it to
> >> write a good one. I recall seeing something about it, but I can't seem
> >> to find where I saw that. Any ideas?
> >
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=109214125504938&w=2
> >
> > Look for the --iso option to mkbootdisk and take it from there...
>
> I agree that this is the easiest thing to do,
> but in fact I found it fairly easy to make a boot floppy
> after compiling the kernel, following the advice in /usr/share/doc/syslinux*
>
> >> And before any one asks, I have to use a boot disk as my HP machine
> >> continues to format the MBR when I install GRUB.
>
> You don't need to re-install grub.
> It reads the config file to see what kernels are available.
>
>
>
> --
> Timothy Murphy
> e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
> tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
> s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
>
>
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:14:17 -0400
> From: Carroll Grigsby <cgrigs at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: Yum has screwed up my system :-(
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Message-ID: <200408122314.17909.cgrigs at earthlink.net>
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> On Thursday 12 August 2004 10:56 am, Robin Laing wrote:
>
> >>> whack
>
> > I for one am not looking forward to moving to FC3 when it comes out.
> > I have stayed away from FC2 as I have to have my home machine working
> > or my wife will kill me. She hates it when I say I have to do an
> > security update as she is afraid that there are going to be problems.
> >
> > I love computers. :)
> > --
> > Robin Laing
>
> Robin:
> To me that sounds like a great opportunity to sneak a second computer into the
> house. FWIW, it worked here. I'll leave the details to you.
> -- cmg
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:17:43 -0400
> From: Aaron Gaudio <prothonotar at tarnation.dyndns.org>
> Subject: Re: Documentation of services
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <1092367063.1996.23.camel at localhost.localdomain>
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> On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 01:38 +0100, James Wilkinson wrote:
> > Aaron Gaudio wrote:
> > > Unfortunately, if you call the init script 'alsactl' and expect to be
> > > able to find a man page on the init script by typing 'man alsactl' you
> > > will be sorely disappointed.
> > I'd better clarify this.
> >
> > man alsactl shows what the alsactl command can do, and (by extension)
> > what the service might expect it to do. "Description: alsactl is used to
> > control advanced settings for the ALSA soundcard drivers" isn't so bad:
> > it's a good deal better than just calling the service "alsa"...
>
> It is bad IMO because it is misleading. If I see an initscript called
> "alsactl" and run 'man alsactl' and get a valid manpage describing the
> usage of the alsactl command, I might get confused and think that is the
> usage of alsactl initscript. To think otherwise is to assume I have
> knowledge of how initscripts integrate into a Unix system, and once you
> assume that, I should have enough knowledge to figure out what the
> initscript does (or at least, to figure out how to figure it out)
> without having documentation handed to me.
>
>
> > > Now, aside from the aforementioned system-config-services type of
> > > contextual documentation, there could be a 'help' argument in addition
> > > to the standard 'start|stop|restart|reload' commands. Now someone needs
> > > to only know how to use /sbin/service, which they should already know if
> > > they plan on starting or stopping the service from a terminal anyway.
> >
> > The big problem is "how do they find the documentation"?
> >
> > We really do need a man page for service, which points to other
> > documentation. But many people (including me) have got used to
> > /etc/init.d/whatever commands.
>
> Agreed. If /sbin/service (and its derivatives) is what folks are
> supposed to use to control services from the command line, then there
> ought to be a man page for it. In fact, I'll go so far as saying that I
> think the initscripts should all fail if you try to run them directly,
> because /sbin/service sets up a more secure environment.
>
> >
> > Apart from using Google or reading the shell code, how would *you* go
> > about finding information about a service?
>
> It depends on the usage scenario in question. In the context of me
> trying to figure out how to set up a particular service, I would expect
> documentation to be included in the documentation for the package which
> provides the service. In a RH system, that usually means grokking the
> stuff in /usr/share/doc/[package] (especially the INSTALL file, if any).
> This is because I'm coming from the context of "I've just installed this
> package and now I want to find out how to get it up and running". I
> believe this is probably the most common usage scenario, btw.
>
> On the other hand, if I happen to be doing some generic administrative
> browsing of my services, usually I look to see what the script is doing,
> since I can understand bash. If that were not the case, however, I would
> expect some basic documentation from whatever tool I'm using to
> administer the services. If I'm using system-config-services, I expect
> to be able to get some documentation there; probably just a short
> description giving me enough info to find out the rest (or even better-
> pointing me to the resource necessary to find out the rest; or best- a
> help link that sends me right to the resource, whatever its format, in
> my help browser).
>
> If I'm using /sbin/service, then I think being able to do '/sbin/service
> [servicename] help' to get the same info as above would be best. I
> wouldn't think offhand to try the man or info pages, as I don't tend to
> find initscript information in them (on my workstation, autofs was the
> only initscript which has a man page; incidentally it's the only
> initscript other than clearcase's that I've had to repeatedly edit to
> get to work right [though in FC2 it finally appears to work
> correctly]).
>
> --
> Aaron Gaudio <prothonotar at tarnation.dyndns.org>
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:26:23 -0700
> From: RoboticGolem <roboticgolem at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: The best Live CD
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <7749459904081220265869622a at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>
> Very Nice indeed. Now all I have to do is come up with time. Anyone
> know of a machine that can either speed time for me, or slow time
> around me?
>
> *sigh*
>
> If only I had more time. =/
>
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:00:50 -0500, Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Once upon a time Wednesday 11 August 2004 9:39 pm, RoboticGolem wrote:
> > > Look what I found!
> > >
> > > http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/~purschke/RescueCD/
> > >
> > > Make your own. You could then have anything you need or want and
> > > nothing you dont. I'm going to try and modify it to make a bootable
> > > minidvd. Then you could have pretty much anything you want and not
> > > have to worry about it.
> > have a look at http://dc.qut.edu.au/adios/index.html it includes information
> > on how QUT created there own live cd for use in a university environment
> > you could easily create your own fedora based live cd also.
> >
> > Dennis
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 10
> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:28:14 -0700
> From: RoboticGolem <roboticgolem at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Fedora Locks Up on Logout
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <7749459904081220283c7441b0 at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>
> Maybee double check your vga=ask option? If you even use it.....
> maybe try using it if you dont... how about using the setsysfont util
> to have it reset your terminal res on logout? Or are you in runlevel
> 5? *shrug* Good luck.
>
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:19:17 -0500, Steve Strong <sstrong at crwash.org> wrote:
> > I've installed Fedora 2 on a system that has been running Redhat 9.0.
> > When I log off, the system hangs, the monitor displays a message
> > complaining that the refresh rate is out of range.
> >
> > The X configuration has the correct monitor and video card with all of
> > the same configuration data for the RH 9.0 machine right next to it.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> > steve
> > --
> > Steve Strong
> > Math and Computer Science
> > Washington High School
> > 2205 Forest Dr. SE
> > Cedar Rapids, IA 5243
> > email:sstrong at crwash.org
> > web site: http://crwash.org
> > phone: 319-558-4685
> >
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> >
>
>
>
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> Message: 11
> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:28:52 -0400
> From: Gene Smith <gds at chartertn.net>
> Subject: Re: mozilla help/about (no version number)-SOLVED
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
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> Gene Smith wrote, On 08/12/2004 12:41 AM:
>
> Not really a fc problem. But to get rid of the UA overrride string (how
> it got set in the first place to version m18 with a 2001 date I have no
> idea) you have to *shutdown mozilla* and then remove or comment out the line
>
> /* user_pref("general.useragent.override", "my override str w/m18");
> */
>
> in file ~/.mozilla/default/<random chars>.slt/prefs.js
>
> Just making this override string null or changing this file with mozilla
> running or changing it in about:config has no effect, it comes right
> back unless you *shutdown mozilla* first as per the prefs.js file heading.
>
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 12
> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 13:40:47 +1000
> From: "a.sulaiman" <azs at bom.gov.au>
> Subject: top system utility bug
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Message-ID: <20040813134047.7d81e052.azs at bom.gov.au>
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>
> Running top on my machine (standard fc1) always show
> zero idle time. It flash between all zeros or 33%
> each from irq,softirq and iowait.
>
> CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
> total 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
> -or- 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 33.3% 33.4% 33.1% 0.0%
>
> Searching the archives uncover other top bugs but not this
> one. http://www.redhat.com/archives/procps-list seems to
> contain nothing but spams.
>
> gnome-system-monitor looks ok but I'd prefer to use top if
> I need to look at system status.
> Anyone have similar issue? know of any fix?
>
> Thank You
> -Asri Sulaiman
> ===========================================================
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 13
> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:38:08 -0400
> From: Carroll Grigsby <cgrigs at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: Cannot install FC2
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Message-ID: <200408122338.08520.cgrigs at earthlink.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> On Thursday 12 August 2004 06:36 pm, Bill Tetens wrote:
> > Some more info.. Just for ?GEE Whizz I moved the CD Rom to the primary
> > IDE with the HDD. The HDD is master and the CD is slave. No help.
> >
> > I realized that I did have a self boot disc and hunted it up. It is a
> > copy of KNOPPIX that runs from the CD and it fired up just fine.
> >
> > Hope some of this helps. Maybe It would be better if I ordered a copy
> > of the Fedora FC2 if it is available on the internet. Maybe the whole
> > problem is with the CD's I made?????
> >
>
> Bill:
> You can buy Fedora CD's from www.cheapbytes.com. I've used them a few times
> and found them to be quick, inexpensive and the disks worked. There are some
> other sites that provide similar services.
>
> Is the Knoppix disk one that you made or did you pick it up someplace else? My
> thought is that you may be doing something improperly during the burn, or
> that there may be a problem with your burner. Or blank disks. Or phases of
> the moon...
>
> BTW -- please drop the HTML; plain text is muchly preferred on this list for
> lots of reasons.
>
> -- cmg
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 14
> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:45:49 -0400
> From: Dave Rinker <drinker at dsrtech.com>
> Subject: Re: MORE SSH Hacking: heads-up
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <1092368748.7843.3.camel at toth>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> my error, this is passwd code
>
>
> On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 23:01, Aaron Gaudio wrote:
>
> >
> > Perhaps I'm being daft, but the exploit appears to be a 'passwd' trojan,
> > not an su trojan. And the attacker would need to get it in a place where
> > it would get inadvertently run (preferably by root).
> >
> > --
> > Aaron Gaudio <prothonotar at tarnation.dyndns.org>
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> Message: 15
> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 00:53:24 -0300
> From: Pedro Fernandes Macedo <webmaster at margo.bijoux.nom.br>
> Subject: Re: New Hard Disk
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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> Mark Neidorff wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, James Pifer wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>I know this topic is discussed a lot and I've googled for a lot of
> >>information. I still wouldn't mind some help, because of information
> >>overload...
> >>
> >>I have a system with a 20gig drive. I'd like to move the whole install
> >>to another drive, 120 gig, so I can use the 20 gig drive in another
> >>system. I have the 120 gig drive installed right now as a slave.
> >>
> >>Can I?:
> >>1) Create the same partitions on the new drive (boot, /, and swap)
> >>2) boot off Knoppix and mount all the drives, 20 GB and 120 GB
> >>3) use cp and copy the data from the 20 to the 120
> >>4) remove the 20 and make the 120 the primary and only drive
> >>5) reinstall(or restore) grub on the 120
> >>
> >>Is there an easier way to do this with both drives in the same machine?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Why not take a look at Mondorescue? I've used it to back up a
> >complete live file system, boot from the created CD, and then restore to a
> >different drive. Mondo will partition the drive for you. In your case,
> >Mondo will give you a chance to set up your own scheme, or it will take
> >the same parititoning scheme that you currently have and allow you to use
> >that exact scheme or make each (new) partition proportionatly larger. For
> >a "simple" program it does a great job!
> >
> >Mark
> >
> >
> >
> Well , mondo is an option.. but if the OP doesnt want to learn a new
> tool (which is a sad decision) , he can do what he wants... I did it
> once here.
> I booted with one fedora rescue CD , mounted the partitions of the
> source and destination drives , and copied everything. Then installed
> grub on the new drive and I was ready... I also took the chance and
> formatted the new partitions with XFS instead of ext3..
>
> --
> Pedro Macedo
>
>
>
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> Message: 16
> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 13:08:32 +0900
> From: "Hiroyuki KOIKE" <koike at ka.riec.tohoku.ac.jp>
> Subject: File System Error
> To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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>
> Hi, this is Hiroyuki
>
> I'm using Fedora Core 2 as a server. But I have one problem.
> The server started up, and then few days later, I saw a below
> error message on the console.
>
> EXT3-fs error (device hda1) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
> EXT3-fs error (device hda1) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
> EXT3-fs error (device hda1) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
>
> So I can't log in. That would be file system problem.
> Do you know how to solve this problem?
>
> --
> Hiroyuki Koike
> e-mail: koike at ka.riec.tohoku.ac.jp
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 17
> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 12:20:32 +0800
> From: Edward <edward at tripled.iinet.net.au>
> Subject: Re: FC2-i386-disc2.iso has error
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <411C4190.9080009 at tripled.iinet.net.au>
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>
>
> John McBride wrote:
>
> >
> > Rachel Lee wrote:
> >
> >> Dear all,
> >> I have downloaded FC2-i386-disc2.iso from Fedora page twice. I have
> >> burned CDs using Roxio easy CD creator(record CD from CD image) and
> >> checked using command: linux mediacheck
> >>
> >> The result was 'FAIL' for disc2 each time.
> >> How to solve this problem please?
> >>
> >
> > is the first cd okay? do you have a way to run the md5sums of the isos?
> >
> > calculate the md5sum of the iso and compare it to the published value.
> >
> > $ md5sum myfile.iso
> > (wait for calculation)
> >
> > you should be able to find the md5sum published at the same location
> > that you downloaded the iso. or :
> >
> > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/2/i386/iso/MD5SUM
> >
> > if the md5sum values match, then there is something odd going on. i'm
> > guessing you have a corrupt iso (the md5sums will not match on each end).
> >
> > if the md5sums don't match you will have to try the download again or
> > find a better connection until they match.
>
> I can say that I've seen the Linux media check fail on a DVD-Drive I had
> in one system, yet not in a CD/RW I had in that same system. So it may
> have something to do with UDMA settings or something like that as well.
>
> Regards,
> Ed.
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 18
> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:29:16 -0500
> From: "Thomas Cameron" <thomas.cameron at camerontech.com>
> Subject: Re: Cannot install FC2
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <009401c480ee$183fc260$6401a8c0 at camerontech.com>
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>
> That's the problem - you wrote the ISO image to cd as a single file. That's
> not what an ISO is for. It's actually a block by block image of a complete
> CD.
>
> What you need to do is use your burning software to write the image to CD.
> Once you do this the CD should have the following files on it:
>
> autorun README-Accessibility RPM-GPG-KEY-beta
> eula.txt README-en RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
> Fedora README-en.html RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide
> GPL RELEASE-NOTES-en RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test
> images RELEASE-NOTES-en.html RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide
> isolinux RPM-GPG-KEY TRANS.TBL
>
> What CD burning software are you using? If you have Nero (I recommend it
> highly for Windows users - ftp://ftp.us.nero.com/nero63117.exe), open up
> Nero Express. Choose "Disc Image or Saved Project". Navigate to the
> location in which the ISO images on your hard drive are stored. You'll have
> to change the very bottom drop-down menu titled "Files of Type:" to "Image
> Files (*.nrg, *.iso, *.cue)" and then you'll see the ISO images. Highlight
> the first ISO image and click "Open." You should now see the ISO image and
> the drive to which you want to write it. Click "Next." You'll watch the
> image burn to disk and then get a message that the burn process completed
> successfully.
>
> Lather, rinse, and repeat for disks 2-4.
>
> Cheers!
> Thomas
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bill Tetens
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 4:44 PM
> Subject: Re: Cannot install FC2
>
>
> using windows explorer the disc shows uip with one file names
> FC2-i386-disc1.ISO and a second file that is the checksum file.
>
> ceubank at royalbcmuseum.bc.ca wrote:
>
> ....Can you read the CD's on the windows machine through explorer?
>
> Chris
>
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>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Scot L. Harris
> Sent: August 12, 2004 2:25 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Cannot install FC2
>
> On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 17:01, Bill Tetens wrote:
>
> No joy in mudville. Still had the files downloaded by bit torrent and
> I burned a new disk 1 using ISO and the orginial file. Still does not
> work and I get the same error message.
>
>
>
> So did you verify in the bios that the CDrom is configured as a boot
> device and listed ahead of the harddisk drive?
>
>
>
> zuki269 at netscape.net wrote:
>
> I think the problem has been found. I burned them as data so I will
> burn them as ISO files and let you know how it turns out. Knew it
> had to be something I done.
>
> Thanks everyone.....
>
> webid at cfl.rr.com wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 16:08, Bill Tetens wrote:
>
>
> Totally new to Linux and am trying to install Fedora on a computer
>
> with
>
> a blank HDD. I put disk one in the CD and changed the boot order
> putting the CD Rom first.
>
> The following error message is displayed after the CD appears to be
>
> checked.
>
> Reboot and select proper boot device
> or insert boot media in selectefd boot device.
>
> The CD passed the checksum so I am assuming that it is OK but don't
>
>
>
> have a clue where to go now. I know something is wrong but what.
>
> Help would be more than appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Welcome aboard!
>
> Most likely you need to configure your bios to boot from the CDrom
> drive.
>
> The next most likely problem is that when you burned the CDs you did
>
> not
>
> burn them as images. In you CD burner software there should be an
> option to burn the CD as an iso or image, then select the iso file you
> downloaded. This will burn a bootable CD. If you just burned the iso
> as data to the CD that will not work.
>
> My money is on the bios settings.
>
>
>
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