On a Fedora server (in this case 14, 15, and 16) acting as the primary LDAP server, it can get stuck booting if LDAP is not ready in time. You end up with a race condition where LDAP is stuck attempting to start for one reason or another and other services are stuck waiting for
Linux has made great strides in recent years. One of the main pains was when the root volume needs to be extended because so many steps are needed in order to make it work properly and the system is off-line during the entire time. Not any longer. With ext3, it is not only possible to
After an upgrade to Fedora 10, VMware Workstation 6.5.0 would not run. The kernel modules, as expected, needed to be compiled, but the only one that would not compile was the vmmon kernel module. Attempting to run vmware-modconfig resulted in a segfault, and attempting to compile the modules manually (as suggested in one of the