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then i would suggest unplugging all harddrives except the hdd where the os is on. On my server an broken hdd freezed the system (also without ANY trac)

You can try to update F17. i also had connection issues after a fresh install. After an

sudo yum update

it was fixed. I guess updating is hard without working wireless. So you may try to switch to Cable just for updating.

You can also check the output of dmesg if there is any problem with your wifi.

https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet for Gnome3 Shortkeys

you should delete all partitions on the usb stick and then rerun the LiveUSB tool. You can use the "Disk Utility" tool for this task.

Just select your usbstick on the left side and then remove all partitions on it.

You can also try this method:

su -c 'dd if=Fedora-16-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso of=/dev/sd''X'' bs=8M'

But be SURE to replace the X with the correct device path /dev/sdX. You can see the device path in the Disk Utility

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/HowtocreateanduseLiveUSB

you can still try to use netconsole. Which will send kernel message over the network:

#Client
nc -l -u 6666

#Server - will not preserve restart
insmod netconsole netconsole=4444@192.168.178.1/eth0,66..

#Server - will be configured after restart
echo 'options netconsole netconsole=4444@192.168.178.1/eth0,6666@192.168.178.59/e0:49:75:c3:0b:ff' >> /etc/modprobe.d/netconsole.conf

192.168.178.1 = Server IP

192.168.178.59 = Client IP

http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt

why does stop report "Job canceled.". It did not on my f17 and cups.service has also vanished from the list-units

you could

1. shrink the ext4 filesystem to the minimum size
2. then shrink the partition,
3. create an new gfs2 formated partition
4. copy all the data from ext4 to gfs2 and then
5. move the gfs2 to the begin of the hdd.

this will only work if you have < 50% used space.

i don't think file system conversions are possible. As far as i know you can only convert from ext3 -> ext2 (remove jornaling) but these 2 filesystem are related very closly.

EDIT

You can convert ext4 -> btrfs

btrfs-convert

does it freeze and you have to reboot it or does it really reboot? I don't think the kernel would force an reboot on an error. I would check the hardware, maybe power supply or overheating?

i'm not sure if this would work, i only did some short tests:

every application shortcut in F17 is in

/usr/share/applications/

you can change the ownership of all the file to only your username:

sudo chown root:<yourusename> /usr/share/applications/*
sudo chmod o-r  /usr/share/applications/*

then you have to "whitelist" every entry you want to show them with:

(for example gnome mines game)

sudo chmod o+r /usr/share/applications/gnome-gnomine.desktop

I don't know how old your kids are, but THIS METHOD ONLY HIDES the shortcuts from the Applications menu (Activities -> Application). If you know the name of the programm you can start it anyway.

I don't give ANY guarantees that this won't break your computer!

The easiest way would be to tell your kids where to find the games and stuff they are interrested in. (Activities -> Application, and then on the right hand side categories)

Maybe boot: is just not shown.

you can try to "blind" type[0]:

text console=ttyS0
linux text

you can also try the ubuntu alternate disk image. The have less fancy graphics in their bootloader.

[0] http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html/Installation_Guide/ch-Boot-x86.html#s2-x86-starting-bootopts

intel video drivers are included in the kernel and should work out of the box. Sometimes you have to switch to a newer kernel to get old intel mobil chipsets to work.

what is you Chipset? is this an laptop?

did you already tried upgrading to the latest kernel in fedira?

  sudo yum update

you should definitely consider using KVM. the "guest additions" are part of every linux kernel since 2.6.x and work out of the box.

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are there other options in grub? Like memtest or other Fedora lines?

looks like the vmlinuz file for the current kernel was deleted.

If you can boot the other lines you can install the latest fedora kernel and this package should again contain the needed vmlinuz.

sudo yum install kernel

if there are no other lines to boot from, you can boot the live cd and chroot into your system:

sdxY = Your Partition with Root on it

sdzY = the partition of /boot

su -
mount /dev/sdxY /mnt 
mount /dev/sdzY /mnt/boot 
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
mount -o bind /dev/pts /mnt/dev/pts 
mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys
mount -t proc /proc /mnt/proc
cp /proc/mounts /mnt/etc/mtab 
for i in /dev /dev/pts /proc /sys /run; do sudo mount -B $i /mnt$i; done 
mount -o bind /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/etc/resolv.conf 
chroot /mnt /bin/bash

now you can again run

yum install kernel
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

hint: it's possible to let yum search for the correct package:

yum install 'libmysqlclient.so.18()(64bit)'

this also works for binaries

yum install '*bin/wget'

()(64bit) is only needed for 64bit libs.

Please create an image: systemd-analyze plot > /tmp/plot.svg
in the image ist usually more clear what services have to wait and why.

sounds like some packages depend on the older version.

Anyway: I looked at the configure.ac file of electric sheep: http://code.google.com/p/electricsheep/source/browse/trunk/client_generic/configure.ac

REQ_BOOST_VERSION=103900
AC_MSG_CHECKING(for libboost >= 1.39)

So both versions should be fine.

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=19141

there is a Step-by-Step guide. Hope that works

 cat /etc/mtab

displays mounted filesystems. Maybe an automounter has mounted the filesystem?

you can also check cat /etc/mtab

• resize the windows partition with windows tools (like bootcd)
• install fedora (use the free space)
• fedora should install grub and you should get the option to boot win7 or fedora.
• Important part is just to install windows first.

hmm you can try to unplug your lan wire, maybe you can skip the networking part then. (the last line on your screenshot is the network setup)

Alternative way:

Click on the top left Corner (Activities corner) [also pressing the WINDOWS button does the same].

Type "background" and select the matching icon.

(remark if you have installed an none english version of fedora you may have to search for your local translation of the word background)

please post the output of

sudo yum update

you can also try running:

sudo yum check

please run sudo yum update and post the results in the description, plz use the code tag.

You may contribute to:

Kernel bug

Launchpad Bug

Looks like an kernel acpi issue. Do you have disabled acpi=off in the grub modline?

maybe you can to a tracepath and then ping every hop and check where the problem starts occuring.

sometimes adding acpi=off helps. (or removing rhgb from modline in grub) - which should display more output.

You can try removing

rhgb quiet

from the grub.cfg file. with

sudo gedit /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

this should give you more verbose output.

You can also try giving your PC more time to startup. I once experienced a bug where it took nearly 3min to start (iscsi service is delaying system startup)

What do you mean you can move your mouse? Does it hang before reaching gnome?

on my notebook tracker (indexing deamon) burned all the battery. Maybe you take a look at the cpu usage. Also enabling rc6 on intel's gives you about 1h of battery life.

for a very strange reason: I had to enable UEFI support in my bios to make Fedora boot (installing worked without errors, but without UEFI = On in my bios it refused to find a bootable partition.

maybe you can give it a try.

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torrent works best, if you don't have access to torrent you should verify your downloaded .iso file: https://fedoraproject.org/verify

Grub2 config are created with

sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

The parameter are taken from: /etc/default/grub

Fedora 16 uses systemd to start deamons as far as i know. I checked my (fresh) f16 and i found the following crond related links:

/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants

contains a link to:

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 33 Nov 3 03:29 crond.service -> /lib/systemd/system/crond.service

i experience quite regular gnome-shell crashes. [about once every 4 logins]

Symptoms:

1. Create new User without gnome shell extentions
2. login
3. delay of about 14sec
4. "Oh no. Something has gone wrong. Try logout" Message
5. Logout
6. Login (this time it always works)

i'm new to fedora and the automatic bugreport does not show an line for these sort of crash. i have an nvidia graphics card and haven't installed proprietary drivers.

I have disabled SELinux with enforce=no in grub and SELINUX=permissive in /etc/sysconfig/selinux

.xsessions LOG http://fpaste.org/zmK6/