Show me the Partitions!
My original fedora install procedures worked for a long time, but Fedora 18 came along, and was so intensely cryptic in the partitioning area, that it was impossible to consider using it due to the high possibility of completely wiping out my system by guessing incorrectly what the controls on the screen might do.
Anecdote: Back in the Mesozoic era, I was installing a new kernel driver on a Data General Nova. This involved hand feeding a six inch diameter roll of paper tape through the paper tape reader on the ASR-33 tty that was attached to the machine. Too much or too little tension on the paper and the reader would jam. Let the angle change too much and the reader would jam. And if the reader jammed, you got to start the entire process from scratch again. (The new driver was needed so it could talk to more reliable preipherials and we wouldn't be at the mercy of the tty and paper tape any longer :-). It took an entire weekend to get the whole 3 hour process of reading the entire roll of paper tape to work correctly.
Until the Fedora 18 installer came along, that paper tape experience was the most nightmarish installer I ever had to use. Fedora 18 managed to top it though :-). Fedora 18 is now my new worst installer of all time.
Just from the first 8 days of December, the fedora test list has these threads:
- off to a nostart F18B start
- Rename anaconda to cryptoconda?
- F18 beta experience under VM
- Puzzled
- Reclaim disk space doesn't reuse existing swap, should it?
- manual disk configuration problems
This all led me to invent a brand new way to install Fedora on my primary system. One that is infinitely safer and now that I have done it once I actually like it a lot more than the standard techniques. For one thing, my system can stay up and running normally while I am doing the install and I only reboot once I'm actually ready to run fedora 18.
I start by installing a new fedora 18 virtual machine (which I gave the clever name f18 :-). Since this virtual machine starts with a simple empty disk, I don't have to deal with partitioning and I just let it do whatever it wants to do by default. Since I'm installing inside a virtual machine, the odds are microscopic that it will clobber anything on my real machine. Once this is finished installing and I've run the firstboot setup, I then shutdown the virtual machine.
I have an existing partition labeled FEDORA16 holding (you guessed it) my old fedora 16 installation. I want fedora 18 to be installed in that partition, so I reformat it to make it nice and empty and give it the label FEDORA18, adjusting my fstab so it no longer tries to mount the fedora 16 partition.
Now it is time for the magic:
guestmount -d f18 -i --ro /mnt mkdir /fedora18 mount LABEL=FEDORA18 /fedora18 rsync -a -H -A -X --exclude=lost+found/ /mnt/ /fedora18 fusermount -u /mnt
I now have the fedora 18 installation copied to my fedora 18 partition, but there is a little matter of the root definition, UUID values, etc. that need to be adjusted in the grub files.
Here are the modifications I found I needed to make (obviously your partition numbers and UUID values will be unique to your system):
--- /mnt/boot/grub2/grub.cfg 2012-12-03 20:21:17.000000000 -0500
+++ /fedora18/boot/grub2/grub.cfg 2012-12-04 15:24:34.017583407 -0500
@@ -52,13 +52,12 @@
font=unicode
else
insmod part_msdos
-insmod lvm
insmod ext2
-set root='lvm/fedora-root'
+set root='hd0,msdos2'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
- search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint='lvm/fedora-root' 5911be03-34c7-44c0-b458-a8e5c24703f1
+ search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos2 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos2 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos2 --hint='hd0,msdos2' c1d455b0-56c6-4d98-bd70-668fbf5117cb
else
- search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5911be03-34c7-44c0-b458-a8e5c24703f1
+ search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root c1d455b0-56c6-4d98-bd70-668fbf5117cb
fi
font="/usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2"
fi
@@ -73,13 +72,12 @@
fi
terminal_output gfxterm
insmod part_msdos
-insmod lvm
insmod ext2
-set root='lvm/fedora-root'
+set root='hd0,msdos2'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
- search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint='lvm/fedora-root' 5911be03-34c7-44c0-b458-a8e5c24703f1
+ search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos2 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos2 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos2 --hint='hd0,msdos2' c1d455b0-56c6-4d98-bd70-668fbf5117cb
else
- search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5911be03-34c7-44c0-b458-a8e5c24703f1
+ search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root c1d455b0-56c6-4d98-bd70-668fbf5117cb
fi
insmod gfxmenu
loadfont ($root)/boot/grub2/themes/system/DejaVuSans-10.pf2
@@ -93,40 +91,38 @@
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
-menuentry 'Fedora' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple-5911be03-34c7-44c0-b458-a8e5c24703f1' {
+menuentry 'Fedora' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple-c1d455b0-56c6-4d98-bd70-668fbf5117cb' {
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
- insmod lvm
insmod ext2
- set root='lvm/fedora-root'
+ set root='hd0,msdos2'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
- search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint='lvm/fedora-root' 5911be03-34c7-44c0-b458-a8e5c24703f1
+ search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos2 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos2 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos2 --hint='hd0,msdos2' c1d455b0-56c6-4d98-bd70-668fbf5117cb
else
- search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5911be03-34c7-44c0-b458-a8e5c24703f1
+ search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root c1d455b0-56c6-4d98-bd70-668fbf5117cb
fi
echo 'Loading Linux 3.6.6-3.fc18.x86_64 ...'
- linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.6.6-3.fc18.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/fedora-root ro rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rd.lvm.lv=fedora/root rd.luks=0 rhgb quiet
+ linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.6.6-3.fc18.x86_64 root=LABEL=FEDORA18 ro rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rd.luks=0 selinux=0 quiet
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initramfs-3.6.6-3.fc18.x86_64.img
}
-submenu 'Advanced options for Fedora' $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-advanced-5911be03-34c7-44c0-b458-a8e5c24703f1' {
- menuentry 'Fedora, with Linux 3.6.6-3.fc18.x86_64' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-3.6.6-3.fc18.x86_64-advanced-5911be03-34c7-44c0-b458-a8e5c24703f1' {
+submenu 'Advanced options for Fedora' $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-advanced-c1d455b0-56c6-4d98-bd70-668fbf5117cb' {
+ menuentry 'Fedora, with Linux 3.6.6-3.fc18.x86_64' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-3.6.6-3.fc18.x86_64-advanced-c1d455b0-56c6-4d98-bd70-668fbf5117cb' {
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
- insmod lvm
insmod ext2
- set root='lvm/fedora-root'
+ set root='hd0,msdos2'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
- search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint='lvm/fedora-root' 5911be03-34c7-44c0-b458-a8e5c24703f1
+ search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos2 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos2 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos2 --hint='hd0,msdos2' c1d455b0-56c6-4d98-bd70-668fbf5117cb
else
- search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5911be03-34c7-44c0-b458-a8e5c24703f1
+ search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root c1d455b0-56c6-4d98-bd70-668fbf5117cb
fi
echo 'Loading Linux 3.6.6-3.fc18.x86_64 ...'
- linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.6.6-3.fc18.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/fedora-root ro rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rd.lvm.lv=fedora/root rd.luks=0 rhgb quiet
+ linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.6.6-3.fc18.x86_64 root=LABEL=FEDORA18 ro rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rd.luks=0 selinux=0 quiet
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initramfs-3.6.6-3.fc18.x86_64.img
}
--- /mnt/boot/grub2/device.map 2012-12-03 20:21:09.000000000 -0500
+++ /fedora18/boot/grub2/device.map 2012-12-03 21:07:52.212811655 -0500
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
# this device map was generated by anaconda
-(hd0) /dev/vda
-(hd1) /dev/vda
+(hd0) /dev/sda
--- /mnt/etc/default/grub 2012-12-03 20:21:15.000000000 -0500
+++ /fedora18/etc/default/grub 2012-12-04 15:29:23.441247641 -0500
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)"
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
-GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rd.lvm.lv=fedora/root rd.luks=0 $([ -x /usr/sbin/rhcrashkernel-param ] && /usr/sbin/rhcrashkernel-param || :) rhgb quiet"
+GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rd.luks=0 $([ -x /usr/sbin/rhcrashkernel-param ] && /usr/sbin/rhcrashkernel-param || :) selinux=0 quiet"
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
GRUB_THEME="/boot/grub2/themes/system/theme.txt"
Now, if my stand alone grub partition was grub2, I'd probably be done at this point and could boot into fedora 18 using the multiboot or configfile directive, but since I haven't gotten up the nerve to do this to my primary system yet, I need grub2 to be installed in the partition. I do this by chrooting into the fedora 18 partition and running:
grub2-install --force /dev/sda2
Now I can chainload the fedora 18 grub from my mainboot and boot into fedora 18 the same way I'm booting into fedora 17.
This works, and finally the installation process of configuring software can proceed (relatively) normally according to the original instructions.
Of course a lot of annoying things needed unique new fixes for fedora 18 (firewalld, samba, freenx, etc), so here's my final install notes for fedora 18:
install
=======
Fedora 18 has such a horrendously cryptic manual partitioning interface
that I decided to develop a totally new install technique for it.
First I installed a new Fedora 18 virtual machine (named f18).
After I got through install and firstboot, I shut down the virtual machine.
Then I reformatted the old FEDORA16 partition, labelling the new empty
partition FEDORA18, and changing /etc/fstab to mount it on /fedora18
(and actually mounting it there after the reformat was done).
Then I did this:
guestmount -d f18 -i --ro /mnt
Now I have the f18 virtual machine filesystem mounted on /mnt, at which point I
can do this:
rsync -a -H -A -X --exclude=lost+found/ /mnt/ /fedora18
Now I have a complete install of fedora on the /fedora18 partition which I
have copied from the virtual machine disk image. A few tweaks are
required before I can boot from it though:
--- /mnt/boot/grub2/grub.cfg 2012-12-03 20:21:17.000000000 -0500
+++ /fedora18/boot/grub2/grub.cfg 2012-12-04 15:24:34.017583407 -0500
@@ -52,13 +52,12 @@
font=unicode
else
insmod part_msdos
-insmod lvm
insmod ext2
-set root='lvm/fedora-root'
+set root='hd0,msdos2'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
- search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint='lvm/fedora-root' 5911be03-34c7-44c0-b458-a8e5c24703f1
+ search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos2 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos2 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos2 --hint='hd0,msdos2' c1d455b0-56c6-4d98-bd70-668fbf5117cb
else
- search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5911be03-34c7-44c0-b458-a8e5c24703f1
+ search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root c1d455b0-56c6-4d98-bd70-668fbf5117cb
fi
font="/usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2"
fi
@@ -73,13 +72,12 @@
fi
terminal_output gfxterm
insmod part_msdos
-insmod lvm
insmod ext2
-set root='lvm/fedora-root'
+set root='hd0,msdos2'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
- search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint='lvm/fedora-root' 5911be03-34c7-44c0-b458-a8e5c24703f1
+ search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos2 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos2 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos2 --hint='hd0,msdos2' c1d455b0-56c6-4d98-bd70-668fbf5117cb
else
- search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5911be03-34c7-44c0-b458-a8e5c24703f1
+ search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root c1d455b0-56c6-4d98-bd70-668fbf5117cb
fi
insmod gfxmenu
loadfont ($root)/boot/grub2/themes/system/DejaVuSans-10.pf2
@@ -93,40 +91,38 @@
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
-menuentry 'Fedora' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple-5911be03-34c7-44c0-b458-a8e5c24703f1' {
+menuentry 'Fedora' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple-c1d455b0-56c6-4d98-bd70-668fbf5117cb' {
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
- insmod lvm
insmod ext2
- set root='lvm/fedora-root'
+ set root='hd0,msdos2'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
- search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint='lvm/fedora-root' 5911be03-34c7-44c0-b458-a8e5c24703f1
+ search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos2 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos2 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos2 --hint='hd0,msdos2' c1d455b0-56c6-4d98-bd70-668fbf5117cb
else
- search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5911be03-34c7-44c0-b458-a8e5c24703f1
+ search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root c1d455b0-56c6-4d98-bd70-668fbf5117cb
fi
echo 'Loading Linux 3.6.6-3.fc18.x86_64 ...'
- linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.6.6-3.fc18.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/fedora-root ro rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rd.lvm.lv=fedora/root rd.luks=0 rhgb quiet
+ linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.6.6-3.fc18.x86_64 root=LABEL=FEDORA18 ro rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rd.luks=0 selinux=0 quiet
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initramfs-3.6.6-3.fc18.x86_64.img
}
-submenu 'Advanced options for Fedora' $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-advanced-5911be03-34c7-44c0-b458-a8e5c24703f1' {
- menuentry 'Fedora, with Linux 3.6.6-3.fc18.x86_64' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-3.6.6-3.fc18.x86_64-advanced-5911be03-34c7-44c0-b458-a8e5c24703f1' {
+submenu 'Advanced options for Fedora' $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-advanced-c1d455b0-56c6-4d98-bd70-668fbf5117cb' {
+ menuentry 'Fedora, with Linux 3.6.6-3.fc18.x86_64' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-3.6.6-3.fc18.x86_64-advanced-c1d455b0-56c6-4d98-bd70-668fbf5117cb' {
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
- insmod lvm
insmod ext2
- set root='lvm/fedora-root'
+ set root='hd0,msdos2'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
- search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint='lvm/fedora-root' 5911be03-34c7-44c0-b458-a8e5c24703f1
+ search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos2 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos2 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos2 --hint='hd0,msdos2' c1d455b0-56c6-4d98-bd70-668fbf5117cb
else
- search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5911be03-34c7-44c0-b458-a8e5c24703f1
+ search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root c1d455b0-56c6-4d98-bd70-668fbf5117cb
fi
echo 'Loading Linux 3.6.6-3.fc18.x86_64 ...'
- linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.6.6-3.fc18.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/fedora-root ro rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rd.lvm.lv=fedora/root rd.luks=0 rhgb quiet
+ linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.6.6-3.fc18.x86_64 root=LABEL=FEDORA18 ro rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rd.luks=0 selinux=0 quiet
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initramfs-3.6.6-3.fc18.x86_64.img
}
--- /mnt/boot/grub2/device.map 2012-12-03 20:21:09.000000000 -0500
+++ /fedora18/boot/grub2/device.map 2012-12-03 21:07:52.212811655 -0500
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
# this device map was generated by anaconda
-(hd0) /dev/vda
-(hd1) /dev/vda
+(hd0) /dev/sda
--- /mnt/etc/default/grub 2012-12-03 20:21:15.000000000 -0500
+++ /fedora18/etc/default/grub 2012-12-04 15:29:23.441247641 -0500
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)"
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
-GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rd.lvm.lv=fedora/root rd.luks=0 $([ -x /usr/sbin/rhcrashkernel-param ] && /usr/sbin/rhcrashkernel-param || :) rhgb quiet"
+GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rd.luks=0 $([ -x /usr/sbin/rhcrashkernel-param ] && /usr/sbin/rhcrashkernel-param || :) selinux=0 quiet"
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
GRUB_THEME="/boot/grub2/themes/system/theme.txt"
That seems to be all the files I need to change. Then I can chroot into the
/fedora18 partition and run
grub-install --force /dev/sda2
Now it is bootable from the chainload entry in my /mainboot partition,
and I have fedora18 installed (Ta-Da!).
I've run updates and tried to add lots of rpms to match the set I have
in f17 (not always successfully). (The lists of rpms from various comparisons
are stashed in /fedora18/home/tom/rpms).
I've also done this:
systemctl disable gdm.service
systemctl enable kdm.service
And I've run the /zooty/projects/zeroboot/zeroboot.sh script after removing
the reference to the /etc/sysconfig/display file which is no longer used
(instead the above service diddling should give me kdm).
Note: Later I deleted every line in the grub config containing "gfx" and
that got rid of the annoying graphical grub screen.
Also note: Rather than go through this again, I just did a "yum distro-sync"
after the testing repos were disabled and have kept the f18 beta through
all the yum updates as my f18 production system.
Yet another thing to do: The hostname is now stashed in /etc/hostname, need
to fill it in with the line
zooty.my.lan
networking
==========
Remove the useless nat networking from libvirtd.
virsh net-destroy default
virsh net-undefine default
Everything else was already done earlier (turning off NetworkManager, etc).
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=781890 for implications
of this and maybe a better way if it starts coming back again.
ssh
===
The zeroboot script copied the host keys and hamster files:
But I need to do this manually:
merge setting from f17 /etc/ssh/sshd_config into fedora18 version.
service sshd restart
New thing to tweak:
UsePrivilegeSeparation yes
Maybe gets rid of the "sandbox is useless" log messages?
software
========
General software notes: The names an organization of lots of rpms
have changed (udev is now part of systemd for instance), many, many
OCD packagers have decided to split things into multiple packages
and their evil twins have decided to combine other things into
one package.
The means the old standby of comparing rpm lists:
rpm -q --qf "%{NAME}.%{ARCH}\n" -a
Doesn't work as well as it has in previous releases.
One new trick I found was to do rpm -q --list on fedora 17
to get the actual filenames installed by the rpm and then do
a yum install on fedora 18 giving a filename and let it find the
rpm containing that file now that it has a totally different name.
It is also useful to compare the contents of /usr/sbin and /usr/bin
to see what is missing.
extra stuff
===========
Still need to manually install some things. (Like adobe stuff since
adobe has decided to drop support for yum).
Most of this was done via chroot without actually having to run
fedora 17.
downloaded nxclient rpm from nomachine and installed it.
downloaded acroread and flas-plugin rpms from adobe and installed
them.
Epson linux driver is still same version last downloaded from:
http://linux.avasys.jp/drivers/lsb/epson-inkjet/stable/RPMS/x86_64/
epson-inkjet-printer-artisan-725-835-series-1.0.0-1lsb3.2.x86_64.rpm
Currently stashed in /zooty/downloads/epson/, install from there.
Install gkrellm-themes rpm from /zooty/downloads
libdvdcss
=========
as user tom:
cp /zooty/home/tom/.rpmmacros ~/
rpm -ihv /zooty/downloads/libdvdcss-1.2.10-1.src.rpm
cd /zooty/build/rpmbuild/SPECS
rpmbuild -bb libdvdcss.spec
As root:
yum --nogpg install /zooty/build/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/libdvdcss-1.2.10-1.x86_64.rpm
That is the last of the missing rpms (at least the ones I recognize as
useful, there are a bunch of other random things, but unless I find I
actually do need them, I'm not bothering with them).
grub2 tweaks
============
Add the line:
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER="true"
to /etc/default/grub
emacs
=====
For ~tom:
rm -f .emacs profile
ln -s /zooty/home/tom/.emacs .
ln -s /zooty/home/tom/profile .
Now my fingers know how to work when running emacs as tom or as root.
(The zeroboot script already did this for root).
more user tom stuff
===================
cd ~/
cp -rp /zooty/home/tom/.ssh .ssh
(Greet! After waiting 30 seconds, the ssh forwarded link to work is
back up again).
services
========
Things are moving more into systemd in f17, but let's see what we have
still under chkconfig:
chkconfig --level 12345 iscsi off
chkconfig --level 12345 iscsid off
Now check systemd. This command will show what is enabled:
systemctl --full list-unit-files | grep enabled | fgrep .service
systemctl disable abrt-ccpp.service
systemctl disable abrt-oops.service
systemctl disable abrt-vmcore.service
systemctl disable abrt-xorg.service
systemctl disable abrtd.service
systemctl disable avahi-daemon.service
systemctl disable chronyd.service
systemctl disable dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service
systemctl disable ksm.service
systemctl disable ksmtuned.service
systemctl disable lvm2-monitor.service
systemctl disable mcelog.service
systemctl disable mdmonitor-takeover.service
systemctl disable mdmonitor.service
systemctl disable openct.service
systemctl disable packagekit-offline-update.service
Let's make doubly sure...
systemctl mask abrt-ccpp.service
systemctl mask abrt-oops.service
systemctl mask abrt-vmcore.service
systemctl mask abrt-xorg.service
systemctl mask abrtd.service
systemctl mask avahi-daemon.service
systemctl mask chronyd.service
systemctl mask dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service
systemctl mask ksm.service
systemctl mask ksmtuned.service
systemctl mask lvm2-monitor.service
systemctl mask mcelog.service
systemctl mask mdmonitor-takeover.service
systemctl mask mdmonitor.service
systemctl mask openct.service
systemctl mask packagekit-offline-update.service
Anyway, now that I've disabled chronyd, I need to enable ntpd.
Uncomment the "restrict 192.168.1.0" line in /etc/ntp.conf so local
systems can ask zooty for the time of day.
chkconfig --level 35 ntpd on
Let's see if things still work after reboot...
build tools
===========
cd /zooty/info
./build-all.sh
(The above can be done via the ~/cronscripts/do-zooty-chroot script
as well without booting into new partition).
Might want to add cdrtools to the script as well (but isn't there yet).
ACK: Need to install libvmime-devel to get trollfilter to build.
Did that and re-ran build-all, everything worked this time (so now
I recognize one of the things I ignored during the installs above :-).
cdrecord
========
Check out http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html for
the latest version of the real honest to gosh working cdrecord
tools, download and build from source.
unpack, cd, gmake, sudo gmake install
Everything is now under /opt/schily/bin
nfs
===
zeroboot did this part:
cp /fedora15/etc/exports /etc/exports
Which looks like this:
/zooty 192.168.1.0/24(rw,sync)
But I need to run this:
systemctl enable nfs-server.service
Note: On kvm or other client machine, add this fstab entry:
zooty:/zooty /zooty nfs rw
samba
=====
zeroboot did this part:
cp /fedora15/etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf
But I need to run this:
systemctl enable smb.service
systemctl enable nmb.service
(Doesn't help - samba has been taken over by the tinfoil hat guys, see
below for major changes I had to make).
truecrypt (a.k.a realcrypt)
===========================
zeroboot did this part:
cp /fedora15/usr/bin/truecrypt /usr/bin/truecrypt
cp /fedora15/etc/rc.d/init.d/truecrypt /etc/rc.d/init.d/truecrypt
That installs this script:
#!/bin/bash
#
unset DISPLAY
exec /usr/sbin/realcrypt -t "$@"
But I need to do these:
Still need the service script to make sure all mounted volumes get
unmounted when I reboot.
chkconfig --add truecrypt
service truecrypt start
mkdir /secure
Seems to work OK.
postfix part 1
==============
service sendmail stop
edit /etc/aliases and make tom be the final alias for root
newaliases
alternatives --config mta
(select # corresponding to postfix)
chkconfig --level 35 postfix on
service postfix start
lm_sensors
==========
sensors-detect
hddtemp
=======
service hddtemp start
chkconfig --level 35 hddtemp on
APC ups
=======
It is detected by gnome-power-manager, but that doesn't seem to help
it shutdown cleanly. For that need to:
service apcupsd start
chkconfig --level 35 apcupsd on
(the default config file in /etc/apcupsd seems to be reasonable).
pptp
====
pptpsetup --create ccur --server vpnflc.ccur.com --username tomh --password <p>
cp /fedora17/etc/rc.d/init.d/novpn /etc/rc.d/init.d/
chkconfig --add novpn
Hey! I should add that novpn script to the zeroboot script!
recover comment in the /etc/ppp/peers/ccur file about alternate servers
anacron
=======
anacron is now installed along with cronie so you can't just
remove anything
Make sure to run /usr/local/bin/fix-anacron
cp /fedora17/etc/crontab /etc/crontab
That restores the crontab file from fedora 14 that runs the hourly,
daily, weekly, etc jobs at fixed times dammit.
service crond restart
afteryum
========
cp /zooty/info/afteryum.py /usr/lib/yum-plugins/afteryum.py
cp /zooty/info/afteryum.conf /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/afteryum.conf
logwatch
========
Do initial run of /usr/local/bin/fix-logwatch
fix ugly cursors
================
yum install bluecurve-cursor-theme (did that already)
Fix in two places:
Edit /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme
Change to say: Inherits=Bluecurve
Run dconf-editor, goto org.gnome.desktop.interface
change cursor theme to Bluecurve
GTK style
=========
run /usr/local/bin/fix-Adwaita
Actually, I'm now going into dconf-editor org.gnome.desktop.interface and
changing the theme to oxygen-gtk which I picked by trying all the themes
that had both gtk 2.0 and 3.0 definitions. At least I have arrows in
scrollbars now.
(The f18 Adwaita theme has now done away with arrows so it is impossible
to scroll just a little in a big list).
more crap
=========
rm -f /etc/profile.d/color* /etc/profile.d/PackageKit* /etc/profile.d/vim*
(That gets run in the yum hook, but run it now just to get them all).
stunnel
=======
zeroboot did these:
cp /fedora17/etc/rc.d/init.d/stunnel /etc/rc.d/init.d/stunnel
cp /fedora17/etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf
But I need to do this:
useradd -c 'Stunnel User' -d /var/run/stunnel -M -r -s /sbin/nologin stunnel
mkdir -p /var/run/stunnel
chown stunnel:stunnel /var/run/stunnel
chkconfig --add stunnel
GAAH! This doesn't seem to be starting correctly with systemd. I always
have to do a service stunnel restart after the system is up. Something else
to move to rc.local I guess...
rc.local
========
cp -p /fedora17/etc/rc.d/rc.local /etc/rc.d/rc.local
Pick up custom stuff from /fedora17/etc/rc.d/rc.local
Note that rc.local moved from /etc to /etc/rc.d/
Sigh. Seems like postfix doesn't work after a reboot, add a line to
restart postfix after a delay to go with the line already there that
restarts stunnel. [Seems to work now - I can send mail immediately
after a reboot].
I think I forgot to turn on the postfix service, but if I make sure
it is enabled, it still doesn't work. It doesn't show any errors in the
maillog, but it also can't send mail. Restarting it in rc.local makes
it work OK.
namedprime
==========
I don't know if this really helps anything, but it looks up names
early I want to get cached in DNS. Can't hurt I guess.
zeroboot did this for me:
cp /fedora17/etc/rc.d/init.d/namedprime /etc/rc.d/init.d/namedprime
I need to do this:
chkconfig --add namedprime
nx
==
I'm using the repos for the nx server now, and nomachine for the
nxclient rpm, but need to retrieve the custom keys from f17 partition:
cd /etc/nxserver/
cp /fedora17/etc/nxserver/* .
chown nx:root *
cd /var/lib/nxserver/home/.ssh
rm -f *
cp /fedora17/var/lib/nxserver/home/.ssh/* .
chown nx:root *
(That got things restored, but they didn't work till a fix for freenx-server
showed up and a few other things were tweaked: see below).
cert
====
Copy /etc/pki/dovecot/dovecot-openssl.cnf from old release in
case I need to re-gen certs
cp /fedora17/etc/pki/dovecot/dovecot-openssl.cnf \
/etc/pki/dovecot/dovecot-openssl.cnf
Remember how to make new cert:
rm -f /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
rm -f /etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
export SSLDIR=/etc/pki/dovecot
export OPENSSLCONFIG=/etc/pki/dovecot/dovecot-openssl.cnf
/usr/libexec/dovecot/mkcert.sh
virtual machines
================
First run virt-manager and define /zooty/images/ as a storage pool
cd /etc/libvirt/qemu
cp /fedora17/etc/libvirt/qemu/*.xml .
service libvirtd restart
Gah! When I had machine problems the other day and reloaded BIOS
defaults, I guess I forgot to re-enable KVM. This is a good opportunity
to reboot and fix that :-).
OK, reboot fixed that, but then I found I needed this to see
my spice based KVMs from virt-manager:
yum install spice-gtk-python
(found this fix in bugzilla 819270).
Hmmm... Mouse no workee in windows VMs when I start via virt-manager.
Actually, after a reboot, the mouse does work - who knows what happened?
httpd
=====
cp /fedora17/etc/httpd/conf.d/zooty.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/zooty.conf
Change the IndexIgnore setting in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf so I can see
all the damn files (why README files are hidden by default is more than I
can imagine). The proper value is blank line (no patterns to ignore).
WRONG!!! The proper value is to delete the directive - the new apache
pukes when it has no arguments.
(Conveniently, f18 has reorganized everything so it is impossible to compare).
Add this bind mount to fstab:
/zooty/web-content/html /var/www/html none rw,bind 0 0
chkconfig --level 35 httpd on
GAH! Doesn't work. Apache has changed the access controls:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html
Need to replace all my:
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
directive pairs with:
Require all granted
Now it works...
printers
========
Make sure latest version of epson driver was installed above:
epson-inkjet-printer-artisan-725-835-series-1.0.0-1lsb3.2.x86_64.rpm
(from http://avasys.jp/eng/linux_driver/download/lsb/epson-inkjet/escp/)
cd /zooty/downloads/cups-pdf/
sh -x ./build-em (as root)
cp /fedora17/etc/cups/printers.conf /etc/cups/printers.conf
cp /fedora17/etc/cups/ppd/* /etc/cups/ppd/
google-chrome
=============
Search for and install google-chrome stable from google (which provides the
google chrome repo for updates).
AVRISP mkII
===========
(zeroboot already does this).
cp /fedora17/etc/udev/rules.d/60-avrisp.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/60-avrisp.rules
libreoffice
===========
yum install libpaper
echo Letter > /etc/papersize
At last! Furshlugginer libreoffice paper size finally defaults to Letter!
myphone.conf
============
Add this to the /etc/modprobe.d/ directory:
options usb-storage quirks=0489:c001:i,04b0:018f:i
run dracut --force
That makes the usb-storage driver ignore my phone and android camera
so I can talk to them with adb without getting scads of messages
about storage errors in the logs.
(Didn't run dracut since I've done kernel updates since the file was
copied over by zeroboot).
/etc/php.ini
============
For file uploads from camera to work, I needed to modify some stuff in the
php.ini file:
post_max_size = 0
upload_tmp_dir = /zooty/tmp
upload_max_filesize = 200M
chronyd versus ntpd
===================
I thought I fixed this, but I see chronyd message in the log. I need to
be running ntpd so I can serve time to other computer in my LAN.
OK, I did disable chronyd.service and enable ntpd.service, but chronyd
is still the one running.
So now I just did:
yum -C erase chrony
Let's see it start up after that :-).
hunspell
========
For some reason ispell stopped working in emacs (and for some even more
mysterious reason it did not stop working at work).
Enough strace commands finally discovered this could make it work:
zooty> cd /usr/share/myspell/
zooty> sudo ln -s en_US.aff default.aff
zooty> sudo ln -s en_US.dic default.dic
No idea why it stopped working since I never had these links before.
(Ispell is working now with no action by me, but I keep this hint around
in case it stops again).
Must have something to do with environment. Now that I've logged in with
my original home directory, ispell is busted and I need to make the
symlinks again. (And now it works again).
User tom groups
===============
Wups. Need to make tom a member of uucp, lock, dialout groups (as well
as primary users group).
grep in emacs
=============
Annoying compile.el inserts a line in the grep buffers that emacs
thinks is a grep hit, but it can't find the file for it. GRRRR!
Make my own version of compile.el that simply doesn't add that line
at all.
grep works again...
(Just inherit this from old profile/lisp dir).
home directory
==============
What the heck, let's go ahead and switch home directory and finish
up the conversion to f18 for real.
mv /home /home.orig
mkdir /home
Add this to /etc/fstab
/zooty/home /home none rw,bind 0 0
Make fedora 18 the default in /mainboot/grub/grub.conf
Now let's boot into f18 and see what happens...
...
Not bad, I've got my fvwm session going, google-chrome is (mostly) OK,
etc. Next thing I need is to get mail setup and running again.
dovecot
=======
Saved original files from /etc/dovecot/conf.d/ directory in .orig~ backup
files, then modified the files to match the same changes I made in f16
comparing the files in emacs to see what differences matter and
what were just updated comments in new f16 versions. That process generated
these changes in diff -u format:
--- 10-auth.conf.orig~ 2012-06-11 18:51:52.821092845 -0400
+++ 10-auth.conf 2012-06-11 18:52:38.838180841 -0400
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
!include auth-system.conf.ext
#!include auth-sql.conf.ext
#!include auth-ldap.conf.ext
-#!include auth-passwdfile.conf.ext
+!include auth-passwdfile.conf.ext
#!include auth-checkpassword.conf.ext
#!include auth-vpopmail.conf.ext
#!include auth-static.conf.ext
--- 10-mail.conf.orig~ 2012-06-11 19:07:33.291304775 -0400
+++ 10-mail.conf 2012-06-11 19:07:50.833897042 -0400
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
#
# <doc/wiki/MailLocation.txt>
#
-#mail_location =
+mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
# If you need to set multiple mailbox locations or want to change default
# namespace settings, you can do it by defining namespace sections.
--- 10-master.conf.orig~ 2012-06-11 18:53:07.226609356 -0400
+++ 10-master.conf 2012-06-11 19:09:29.783636658 -0400
@@ -86,16 +86,17 @@
# To give the caller full permissions to lookup all users, set the mode to
# something else than 0666 and Dovecot lets the kernel enforce the
# permissions (e.g. 0777 allows everyone full permissions).
- unix_listener auth-userdb {
+ #unix_listener auth-userdb {
#mode = 0666
#user =
#group =
- }
+ #}
# Postfix smtp-auth
- #unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
- # mode = 0666
- #}
+ unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
+ mode = 0660
+ user = postfix
+ }
# Auth process is run as this user.
#user = $default_internal_user
--- 10-ssl.conf.orig~ 2012-06-11 18:54:51.110754898 -0400
+++ 10-ssl.conf 2012-06-11 18:55:15.747176850 -0400
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
# SSL/TLS support: yes, no, required. <doc/wiki/SSL.txt>
# disable plain pop3 and imap, allowed are only pop3+TLS, pop3s, imap+TLS and imaps
# plain imap and pop3 are still allowed for local connections
-ssl = required
+ssl = yes
# PEM encoded X.509 SSL/TLS certificate and private key. They're opened before
# dropping root privileges, so keep the key file unreadable by anyone but
--- 15-lda.conf.orig~ 2012-06-11 18:55:39.227221836 -0400
+++ 15-lda.conf 2012-06-11 18:56:34.320933054 -0400
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
# Address to use when sending rejection mails.
# Default is postmaster@<your domain>.
-#postmaster_address =
+postmaster_address = postmaster@example.com
# Hostname to use in various parts of sent mails, eg. in Message-Id.
# Default is the system's real hostname.
@@ -44,5 +44,5 @@
protocol lda {
# Space separated list of plugins to load (default is global mail_plugins).
- #mail_plugins = $mail_plugins
+ mail_plugins = $mail_plugins sieve
}
--- auth-passwdfile.conf.ext.orig~ 2012-06-11 18:56:55.432482137 -0400
+++ auth-passwdfile.conf.ext 2012-06-11 18:58:09.654908772 -0400
@@ -5,16 +5,16 @@
passdb {
driver = passwd-file
- args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users
+ args = /etc/dovecot.pass
}
-userdb {
- driver = passwd-file
- args = username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users
+#userdb {
+ #driver = passwd-file
+ #args = username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users
# Default fields that can be overridden by passwd-file
#default_fields = quota_rule=*:storage=1G
# Override fields from passwd-file
#override_fields = home=/home/virtual/%u
-}
+#}
--- auth-system.conf.ext.orig~ 2012-06-11 18:58:44.276350980 -0400
+++ auth-system.conf.ext 2012-06-11 18:59:27.805675414 -0400
@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@
# PAM is typically used with either userdb passwd or userdb static.
# REMEMBER: You'll need /etc/pam.d/dovecot file created for PAM
# authentication to actually work. <doc/wiki/PasswordDatabase.PAM.txt>
-passdb {
- driver = pam
+#passdb {
+ #driver = pam
# [session=yes] [setcred=yes] [failure_show_msg=yes] [max_requests=<n>]
# [cache_key=<key>] [<service name>]
#args = dovecot
-}
+#}
# System users (NSS, /etc/passwd, or similiar).
# In many systems nowadays this uses Name Service Switch, which is
Then salvaged files and settings from f16:
cp -p /fedora17/etc/dovecot.pass /etc/dovecot.pass
chkconfig --level 35 dovecot on
If I reclaim old home directory, this will be preserved, but should
note these setting are also required:
Setup ~/.forward to contain the line:
| "/usr/local/bin/dannyboy --prog=/usr/local/bin/trollfilter --arg=--filter --prog=/usr/bin/bogofilter --arg=-p --arg=-e --prog=/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver"
Setup ~/.dovecot.sieve to contain filtering tests to classify
mail into different IMAP folders automagically.
postfix part 2
==============
Similar to dovecot, I saved orig files in /etc/postfix, applied changes from
f16, and generated this diff -u output:
--- main.cf 2012-06-11 19:17:22.452251819 -0400
+++ main.cf 2012-06-11 19:19:59.305770830 -0400
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
# (by changing 5xx replies into 4xx replies). However, soft_bounce
# is no cure for address rewriting mistakes or mail routing mistakes.
#
-#soft_bounce = no
+soft_bounce = yes
# LOCAL PATHNAME INFORMATION
#
@@ -110,10 +110,10 @@
#
# Note: you need to stop/start Postfix when this parameter changes.
#
-#inet_interfaces = all
+inet_interfaces = all
#inet_interfaces = $myhostname
#inet_interfaces = $myhostname, localhost
-inet_interfaces = localhost
+#inet_interfaces = localhost
# Enable IPv4, and IPv6 if supported
inet_protocols = all
@@ -316,6 +316,12 @@
#relayhost = uucphost
#relayhost = [an.ip.add.ress]
+relayhost = [127.0.0.1]:5025
+smtp_helo_name = zooty
+smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
+smtp_sasl_security_options =
+smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl/sasl_passwd
+
# REJECTING UNKNOWN RELAY USERS
#
# The relay_recipient_maps parameter specifies optional lookup tables
@@ -560,6 +566,15 @@
#
#fast_flush_domains = $relay_domains
+smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
+smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated reject_unauth_destination
+smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = yes
+smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
+smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth
+
+smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
+smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
+
# SHOW SOFTWARE VERSION OR NOT
#
# The smtpd_banner parameter specifies the text that follows the 220
--- master.cf 2012-06-11 19:20:41.677833258 -0400
+++ master.cf 2012-06-11 19:21:10.065205232 -0400
@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@
# -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
# -o smtpd_client_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject
# -o milter_macro_daemon_name=ORIGINATING
-#smtps inet n - n - - smtpd
-# -o syslog_name=postfix/smtps
-# -o smtpd_tls_wrappermode=yes
-# -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
-# -o smtpd_client_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject
+smtps inet n - n - - smtpd
+ -o syslog_name=postfix/smtps
+ -o smtpd_tls_wrappermode=yes
+ -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
+ -o smtpd_client_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject
# -o milter_macro_daemon_name=ORIGINATING
#628 inet n - n - - qmqpd
pickup fifo n - n 60 1 pickup
cp -p /fedora17/etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem \
/etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
cp -p /fedora17/etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem \
/etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
cp -rp /fedora17/etc/postfix/sasl /etc/postfix/sasl
Make sure system name is zooty.my.lan in /etc/hostname to make
postfix happy.
And after rebooting, I can send and receive mail! I'm mostly over
the hump now in the transition to f17.
user tom
========
Go ahead and turn back on tom's cron jobs:
crontab ~/profile/cron/crontab
(Seems to be working, I'm getting mail sucked up automatically
via fetchmail now).
traffic
=======
cp /fedora17/var/www/cgi-bin/traffic-cams /var/www/cgi-bin/traffic-cams
backup & friends
================
mkdir /backup
cp -r /fedora17/root/cronscripts /root/cronscripts
edit fetch-updates script to use chroot for f17 and native for f18
edit rsync-exclude and back2-exclude to exclude /fedora17, not /fedora16
rm -rf /backup/zooty-old
mv /backup/zooty /backup/zooty-old
mkdir -p /backup/zooty/latest
chmod 777 /backup/zooty
mv /backup/zooty-old/cb* /backup/zooty
mv /backup/zooty-old/latest/zooty /backup/zooty/latest
rm -rf /back2/zooty-old
mv /back2/zooty /back2/zooty-old
mkdir -p /back2/zooty/latest
chmod 777 /back2/zooty
mv /back2/zooty-old/cb* /back2/zooty
mv /back2/zooty-old/latest/zooty /back2/zooty/latest
ln -s /root/cronscripts/rsync-backup /etc/cron.daily/zzz-rsync-backup
ln -s /root/cronscripts/fetch-updates /etc/cron.daily/fetch-updates
ln -s /zooty/info/daily-rpm /etc/cron.daily/daily-rpm
ln -s /root/cronscripts/mirror-zooty /etc/cron.daily/mirror-zooty
fedora 17
=========
Chroot over to the fedora 17 partition, fiddle the symlink
documented in /etc/inittab to boot multi-user rather than
graphical.
rm -f /etc/systemd/system/default.target
ln -s /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target
Remove the symlinks in /etc/cron.daily added for updates and
backup
cd /etc/cron.daily
rm -f daily-rpm
rm -f fetch-updates
rm -f zzz-rsync-backup
rm -f mirror-zooty
Remove the /var/spool/cron/tom crontab file.
OK, fedora 17 is officially un-used now (but could easily be resurrected).
getting NX to work
==================
I had to apply the work around in this bugzilla just to get connected
in the first place:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903186
(Some new version of a netcat tool they were using was spewing to stderr
and flaking out the nomachine nxclient).
P.S. There is an official freenx-server release now with this fix,
so no manual hackery is needed any longer.
Having gotten connected, I had to invent this work around to get any
gtk 3 programs to run (which unfortunately included emacs):
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903410
Finally I can remote connect and run useful programs!
Yikes! No I can't. My keyboard mapping is now totally fucked up.
The x.orig wiki seems to indicate that maybe I can run this:
setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout us -option ""
That seems to work.
tooltips
========
AAUGH! I don't know if it is oxygen-gtk or google-chrome or what, but
tooltips now sprout over the top of everything I try to read the instant
I stop moving the mouse.
Some googling finally came up with this:
In each of the files:
/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
/etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
Add the line
gtk-tooltip-timeout = 10000
That makes it take 10 seconds to popup the annoying tooltip. I rarely
leave the mouse in one place that long :-).
Gaah! These disappear on updates. Try ~/.config/gtk-[23].0/ directories
instead... (Doesn't seem to work, guess I need to add those fixes to
my /usr/local/bin/fix-Adwaita script).
samba
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Fucking morons disabled SHARE security, now I need some other way
to mount share from windows.
Run the system-config-samba tool.
Setup user security with samba user tom and password fuck and try
connecting that way.
It worked, there were checkboxes for remembering credentials and remounting
next time, but I'll bet anything it won't auto reconnect the next time I
boot (at least that was the problem I constantly had the last time I tried
user based security).
Yep, won't remount when auto login at boot. In fact telling it the
mount should be persistent pops up all kinds of annoying messages
when it doesn't work.
I need to make a fucking batch file that uses ping for the side effect
of a delay then uses the net use command to mount the share:
@ECHO OFF
ping 192.168.118.253 -n 1 -w 10000 > NUL
NET USE Z: \\zooty\public fuck /USER:PARADOX\tom
Sheesh!
Holy crap! Now windows persists in telling me about the network drive
it couldn't reconnect even though I disconnected it. I have to manually
connect it again so I can uncheck the persistent option so it won't
fail every time I login.
A few more hours of googling and I finally found the fucking startup folder
down in some idiot mocrosoft roaming directory tree 300 levels deep
(C:\Users\(User-Name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup)
and was able to make a link to my batch job there. At last I get the damn
share mounted when I auto login. (With an ugly cmd window sitting there for
10 seconds - I can set the link properties to start minimized so I only
get an ugly icon in the task bar though).
What a load of crap (and I note that the NFS normal mode of operation is
essentially identical to the now deleted SHARE security, so what in the fuck
is the disease afflicting the morons in charge of samba? Is their next move
to try and get NFS disabled? Their web site also claims to open windows to a
wider world - well Microsoft hasn't removed SHARE security so why the fuck
has samba removed it?).
S/PDIF audio
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The 3.8 kernels that showed up in f18 broke my play-movie script.
See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919630
Eventually determined that this magical change was needed:
/usr/share/alsa/cards/HDA-Intel.conf
--- HDA-Intel.conf.orig 2013-03-20 19:13:37.808602053 -0400
+++ HDA-Intel.conf 2013-03-20 19:14:26.332531304 -0400
@@ -113,12 +113,14 @@
hook_args [
{
name "IEC958 Playback Default"
+ index 16
lock true
preserve true
value [ $AES0 $AES1 $AES2 $AES3 ]
}
{
name "IEC958 Playback Switch"
+ index 16
value true
}
]
Also, I now say device=iec958 on mplayer rather than device=hw=0.1.
If this breaks again, I should suspect an alsa update overwrote these
changes and maybe I'll need to move them into a fixup script to re-apply
after any updates.
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BZZZZT! WARNING! Replaced motherboard after bios disaster...
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Needed to re-run sensors-detect (unfortunately the new super io
chip isn't recognized so none of the zillion sensors on the new
motherboard are available though I found a note on google saying
the lm_sensors guys are trying to squeeze the datasheet out
of asus and/or nuvoton).
Needed to run "hwclock -w" to get the motherboard rtc set to the
accurate time (which I want in UTC). Kept having dovecot problems
when time went backwards right after booting.
Helpfull biosdevname now gives me em1 instead of p6p1 so I had
to rename and edit all my vlans in /etc/sysconfig-network-scripts
that mentioned p6p1. Also had to reassign the old MAC address in
the router so I could get zooty's proper IP address assigned.
The sound system is different. I had to "yum reinstall alsa-libs"
to back out the stuff I screwed around with before. Now HDMI
and S/PDIF both show up in pulseaudio as possible output devices.
Gotta figure out what to say to mplayer in the play-movie script
to make this all work. Maybe I can leave pulse running and just
switch to different output?
Found it seemed simpler to use device=hw=1.1, don't know why the
device name "iec958" didn't work since aplay knows that device is
on card 1, but for some reason it didn't, the hw=1.1 gets directly
to the right s/pdif digital output device (I think - at least I hear
audio via the receiver :-).
Intel video driver
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xrandr --output HDMI2 --set "Broadcast RGB" Full
For the longest time, I've had the suspicion that the intel video driver
has been screwing with the output range. The above command verifies this
as suddently the thin white mist over my screen is completely dissapated
after running that command.
Now how the devil do I make it the default mode of operation for the
display so I don't have to do the xrandr switch (which makes the screen
flicker, and usually screws up the video sync a bit till I power cycle
the TV).
The "intel" man page has this cryptic note:
TMDS-1 , TMDS-2 , HDMI-1 , HDMI-2
DVI/HDMI outputs. Avaliable common properties include:
BROADCAST_RGB - method used to set RGB color range
Adjusting this property allows you to set RGB color range
on each channel in order to match HDTV requirment(default
0 for full range). Setting 1 means RGB color range is
16-235, 0 means RGB color range is 0-255 on each channel.
(Full range is 0-255, not 16-235)
SDVO and DVO TV outputs are not supported by the driver at this
time.
See xorg.conf(5) for information on associating Monitor sections
with these outputs for configuration. Associating Monitor sec-
tions with each output can be helpful if you need to ignore a
specific output, for example, or statically configure an
extended desktop monitor layout.
So what syntax do I need in which file?
I can't make xorg.conf.d work, but I've added the xrandr command
to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/00-aaa-me-first.sh.
That definitely adds a flicker when I login, but it also definitely
fixes it correctly. Maybe if I make it check current mode I could
avoid extra flicker.
Finally found an example xorg file with some monitor options (of course
the example is from someone complaining it doesn't work :-).
Section "Device"
Identifier "intelsnb"
Driver "intel"
Option "monitor-HDMI1" "DVI"
Option "monitor-HDMI2" "HDMI"
Option "RandRRotation" "on"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "DVI"
Option "PreferredMode" "1680x1050"
Option "LeftOf" "HDMI"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "HDMI"
Option "PreferredMode" "1680x1050"
Option "Rotate" "CCW"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Monitor "DVI"
Device "intelsnb"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1680x1050"
Virtual 3360 1680
EndSubSection
EndSection
Perhaps I could try something like this:
Section "Device"
Identifier "intelsnb"
Driver "intel"
Option "monitor-HDMI2" "HDMI"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "HDMI"
Option "Broadcast RGB" "Full"
EndSection
(Someday maybe I'll give it a whirl, but it probably won't work much better
than the xrandr command).
Well, I tried it and it don't work. I see things in the X log like
"output HDMI2 has no Monitor section", yet every indication is that
the gibberish above should provide a monitor section for HDMI2, so I
guess I need to stick with randr till something better comes along.