"Two crashes in the past two minutes" written by Tinypliny on estrip.org

Category: linux

12/04/11 10:59 - ID#55650

Two crashes in the past two minutes

What is going on? :/ Every time I go to tinypic to upload a picture and one of their flash address containers loads, my gnome shell crashes and I am back to the bootup terminal.

These is the tail of my /var/log/messages in between one crash and the next.
{(e:paul), try pasting these messages in a journal without the code tags, a messed up TOC turns up! I had no idea (e:strip) could do TOCs! Since when do we have that functionality?!}

abrt[3481]: saved core dump of pid 2733 (/usr/bin/Xorg) to /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2011-12-04-10:49:29-2733 (14278656 bytes)
abrtd: Directory 'ccpp-2011-12-04-10:49:29-2733' creation detected
gnome-session[2838]: Gdk-WARNING: gnome-session: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.#012
systemd-logind[1147]: Removed session 6.
abrtd: DUP_OF_DIR: /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2011-12-02-10:04:26-1229
abrtd: Dump directory is a duplicate of /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2011-12-02-10:04:26-1229
abrtd: Deleting dump directory ccpp-2011-12-04-10:49:29-2733 (dup of ccpp-2011-12-02-10:04:26-1229), sending dbus signal
kernel: [ 7175.953207] libfcoe_device_notification: NETDEV_UNREGISTER lo
systemd-logind[1147]: New session 7 of user gdm.
systemd-logind[1147]: Linked /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 to /run/user/gdm/X11/display.
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): Enabling debugging
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmXsmpServer: SESSION_MANAGER=local/unix:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/3542,unix/unix:/tmp/.ICE-unix/3542#012
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmShell: Not connected to the shell
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: setting client store 0xafdb20
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Adding handler 1: signum=4 (nil)
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Registering for 4 signals
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Adding handler 2: signum=7 (nil)
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Registering for 7 signals
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Adding handler 3: signum=11 (nil)
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Registering for 11 signals
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Adding handler 4: signum=6 (nil)
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Registering for 6 signals
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Adding handler 5: signum=5 (nil)
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Registering for 5 signals
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Adding handler 6: signum=8 0x41bf30
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Registering for 8 signals
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Adding handler 7: signum=1 0x41bf30
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Registering for 1 signals
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Adding handler 8: signum=10 0x41bf30
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Registering for 10 signals
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Adding handler 9: signum=15 0x41bf30
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Registering for 15 signals
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Adding handler 10: signum=2 0x41bf30
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Registering for 2 signals
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Getting session 'gdm-shell'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Looking if /var/lib/gdm/.config/gnome-session/sessions/gdm-shell.session is a valid session file
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): Cannot use session '/var/lib/gdm/.config/gnome-session/sessions/gdm-shell.session': non-existing or invalid file.
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Looking if /etc/xdg/gnome-session/sessions/gdm-shell.session is a valid session file
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): Cannot use session '/etc/xdg/gnome-session/sessions/gdm-shell.session': non-existing or invalid file.
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Looking if /usr/share/gdm/greeter/gnome-session/sessions/gdm-shell.session is a valid session file
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): Cannot use session '/usr/share/gdm/greeter/gnome-session/sessions/gdm-shell.session': non-existing or invalid file.
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Looking if /usr/local/share/gnome-session/sessions/gdm-shell.session is a valid session file
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): Cannot use session '/usr/local/share/gnome-session/sessions/gdm-shell.session': non-existing or invalid file.
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Looking if /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gdm-shell.session is a valid session file
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Launching helper 'bash -c 'gnome-shell --help | grep -q gdm-mode && /usr/libexec/gnome-session-check-accelerated'' to know if session is runnable
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Checking required components and providers
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking for file 'gnome-shell.desktop'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/var/lib/gdm/.config/autostart'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/usr/share/gdm/greeter/gnome/autostart'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/usr/local/share/gnome/autostart'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/usr/share/gnome/autostart'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/etc/xdg/autostart'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/var/lib/gdm/.local/share/applications'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/usr/share/gdm/greeter/applications'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/usr/local/share/applications'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/usr/share/applications'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: found in XDG dirs: '/usr/share/gdm/greeter/applications/gnome-shell.desktop'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking for file 'gnome-settings-daemon.desktop'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/var/lib/gdm/.config/autostart'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/usr/share/gdm/greeter/gnome/autostart'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/usr/local/share/gnome/autostart'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/usr/share/gnome/autostart'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/etc/xdg/autostart'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/var/lib/gdm/.local/share/applications'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/usr/share/gdm/greeter/applications'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/usr/local/share/applications'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/usr/share/applications'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: found in XDG dirs: '/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-settings-daemon.desktop'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Done checking required components and providers
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Adding required components
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking for file 'gnome-shell.desktop'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/var/lib/gdm/.config/autostart'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/usr/share/gdm/greeter/gnome/autostart'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/usr/local/share/gnome/autostart'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/usr/share/gnome/autostart'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/etc/xdg/autostart'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/var/lib/gdm/.local/share/applications'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/usr/share/gdm/greeter/applications'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/usr/local/share/applications'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/usr/share/applications'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: found in XDG dirs: '/usr/share/gdm/greeter/applications/gnome-shell.desktop'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: read /usr/share/gdm/greeter/applications/gnome-shell.desktop
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmStore: Adding object id /org/gnome/SessionManager/App1 to store
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: adding required app gnome-shell.desktop
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking for file 'gnome-settings-daemon.desktop'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/var/lib/gdm/.config/autostart'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/usr/share/gdm/greeter/gnome/autostart'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/usr/local/share/gnome/autostart'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/usr/share/gnome/autostart'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/etc/xdg/autostart'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/var/lib/gdm/.local/share/applications'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/usr/share/gdm/greeter/applications'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/usr/local/share/applications'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: Looking in '/usr/share/applications'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmUtil: found in XDG dirs: '/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-settings-daemon.desktop'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: read /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-settings-daemon.desktop
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmStore: Adding object id /org/gnome/SessionManager/App2 to store
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: adding required app gnome-settings-daemon.desktop
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Done adding required components
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Adding default providers
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Done adding default providers
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: GSM starting to manage
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: App startup summary
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: Phase INITIALIZATION
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager:#011ID: /org/gnome/SessionManager/App2#011app-id:gnome-settings-daemon.desktop#011is-disabled:0#011is-conditionally-disabled:0
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: Phase WINDOW_MANAGER
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: Phase PANEL
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: Phase DESKTOP
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: Phase APPLICATION
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager:#011ID: /org/gnome/SessionManager/App1#011app-id:gnome-shell.desktop#011is-disabled:0#011is-conditionally-disabled:0
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: starting phase INITIALIZATION#012
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: starting app '/org/gnome/SessionManager/App2'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): Starting app: /org/gnome/SessionManager/App2
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmAutostartApp: starting gnome-settings-daemon.desktop: command=/usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon startup-id=103c4e899bebd90b2c132301377089455500000035420001
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmAutostartApp: started pid:3552
Dec  4 15:49:31 why rtkit-daemon[1427]: Successfully made thread 3573 of process 3573 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '42' high priority at nice level -11.
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: RegisterClient 
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: Adding new client 103c4e899bebd90b2c132301377161401000000035420002 to session
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): uid = 42
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): pid = 3575
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmStore: Adding object id /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client1 to store
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: Client added: /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client1
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/gnome/SessionManager/Client1 interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties method=GetAll
Dec  4 15:49:31 why rtkit-daemon[1427]: Successfully made thread 3577 of process 3573 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '42' RT at priority 5.
Dec  4 15:49:31 why rtkit-daemon[1427]: Successfully made thread 3578 of process 3573 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '42' RT at priority 5.
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/gnome/SessionManager/Presence interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties method=GetAll
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/gnome/SessionManager interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties method=GetAll
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/gnome/SessionManager interface=org.gnome.SessionManager method=RegisterClient
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: RegisterClient 103c4e899bebd90b2c132301377089455500000035420001
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: Adding new client 103c4e899bebd90b2c132301377089455500000035420001 to session
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): uid = 42
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): pid = 3552
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmStore: Adding object id /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client2 to store
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: Client added: /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client2
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): App gnome-settings-daemon.desktop registered
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: ending phase INITIALIZATION#012
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: starting phase WINDOW_MANAGER#012
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: ending phase WINDOW_MANAGER#012
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: starting phase PANEL#012
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: ending phase PANEL#012
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: starting phase DESKTOP#012
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: ending phase DESKTOP#012
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: starting phase APPLICATION#012
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: starting app '/org/gnome/SessionManager/App1'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): Starting app: /org/gnome/SessionManager/App1
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmAutostartApp: starting gnome-shell.desktop: command=gnome-shell --gdm-mode startup-id=103c4e899bebd90b2c132301377089417800000035420000
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmAutostartApp: started pid:3579
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: ending phase APPLICATION#012
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: starting phase RUNNING#012
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmPresence: adding idle watch
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GSIdleMonitor: creating new alarm for positive transition wait=600000
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GSIdleMonitor: creating new alarm for negative transition wait=599999
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/gnome/SessionManager/Client2 interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties method=GetAll
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/gnome/SessionManager/Client2 interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties method=GetAll
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmShell: Connected to the shell
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmXsmpServer: accept_ice_connection()
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmXsmpServer: auth_ice_connection()
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmXSMPClient: Setting up new connection
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmXSMPClient: New client '0xb583f0 []'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmStore: Adding object id /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client3 to store
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: Client added: /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client3
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmXSMPClient: Initializing client 0xb583f0 []
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmXSMPClient: Client '0xb583f0 []' received RegisterClient(103c4e899bebd90b2c132301377089417800000035420000)
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: Adding new client 103c4e899bebd90b2c132301377089417800000035420000 to session
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmXSMPClient: Sending RegisterClientReply to '0xb583f0 [103c4e899bebd90b2c132301377089417800000035420000]'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmXSMPClient: Set properties from client '0xb583f0 [103c4e899bebd90b2c132301377089417800000035420000]'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmXSMPClient:   Program = 'gnome-shell'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmXSMPClient:   UserID = 'gdm'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmXSMPClient:   RestartStyleHint = 0
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmXSMPClient:   ProcessID = '3579'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmXSMPClient:   CurrentDirectory = '/var/lib/gdm'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmXSMPClient:   _GSM_Priority = 20
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/gnome/SessionManager/Presence interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties method=GetAll
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/gnome/SessionManager/Presence interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties method=GetAll
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/gnome/SessionManager/Presence interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties method=Get
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/gnome/SessionManager/Presence interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties method=Get
dbus[1156]: [system] Activating service name='net.reactivated.Fprint' (using servicehelper)
dbus-daemon[1156]: dbus[1156]: [system] Activating service name='net.reactivated.Fprint' (using servicehelper)
dbus-daemon[1156]: Launching FprintObject
dbus[1156]: [system] Successfully activated service 'net.reactivated.Fprint'
dbus-daemon[1156]: dbus[1156]: [system] Successfully activated service 'net.reactivated.Fprint'
dbus-daemon[1156]: ** Message: D-Bus service launched with name: net.reactivated.Fprint
dbus-daemon[1156]: ** Message: entering main loop
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
systemd-logind[1147]: New session 8 of user jy.
systemd-logind[1147]: Linked /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 to /run/user/jy/X11/display.
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: handling signal 15
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Found 1 callbacks
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: running 15 handler: 0x41bf30
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): Got callback for signal 15
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: Logout called
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmShell: Connected to the shell
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: requesting logout
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: ending phase RUNNING#012
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: starting phase QUERY_END_SESSION#012
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: Client /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client1
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: Client /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client2
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: Client /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client3
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: sending query-end-session to clients (logout mode: forceful)
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: sending QueryEndSession signal to :1.7
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: adding client to query clients: /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client1
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: sending QueryEndSession signal to :1.2
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: adding client to query clients: /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client2
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: adding client to query clients: /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client3
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): Caught signal 15, shutting down normally.
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Done handling signals
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmXSMPClient: Client '0xb583f0 [gnome-shell 103c4e899bebd90b2c132301377089417800000035420000]' received SaveYourselfDone(success = True)
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: Response from end session request: is-ok=1 do-last=0 cancel=0 reason=
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmXsmpServer: sms_error_handler (0xc41e30, FALSE, 3, 9, 32771, 0)
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/gnome/SessionManager/Client2 interface=org.gnome.SessionManager.ClientPrivate method=EndSessionResponse
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/gnome/SessionManager/Client2 interface=org.gnome.SessionManager.ClientPrivate method=EndSessionResponse
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: got EndSessionResponse is-ok:1 reason=
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: Response from end session request: is-ok=1 do-last=0 cancel=0 reason=
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/gnome/SessionManager/Client1 interface=org.gnome.SessionManager.ClientPrivate method=EndSessionResponse
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: got EndSessionResponse is-ok:1 reason=
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: Response from end session request: is-ok=1 do-last=0 cancel=0 reason=
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: query end session complete
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmShell: Connected to the shell
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: ending phase QUERY_END_SESSION#012
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: starting phase END_SESSION#012
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: adding client to end-session clients: /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client1
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: adding client to end-session clients: /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client2
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: adding client to end-session clients: /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client3
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmXSMPClient: Client '0xb583f0 [gnome-shell 103c4e899bebd90b2c132301377089417800000035420000]' received SaveYourselfDone(success = True)
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: Response from end session request: is-ok=1 do-last=0 cancel=0 reason=
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmXsmpServer: sms_error_handler (0xc41e30, FALSE, 3, c, 32771, 0)
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/gnome/SessionManager/Client2 interface=org.gnome.SessionManager.ClientPrivate method=EndSessionResponse
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/gnome/SessionManager/Client2 interface=org.gnome.SessionManager.ClientPrivate method=EndSessionResponse
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: got EndSessionResponse is-ok:1 reason=
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: Response from end session request: is-ok=1 do-last=0 cancel=0 reason=
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/gnome/SessionManager/Client1 interface=org.gnome.SessionManager.ClientPrivate method=EndSessionResponse
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: got EndSessionResponse is-ok:1 reason=
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: Response from end session request: is-ok=1 do-last=0 cancel=0 reason=
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: ending phase END_SESSION#012
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: starting phase EXIT#012
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: stopped client: /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client1
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: stopped client: /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client2
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmXSMPClient: xsmp_stop ('0xb583f0 [gnome-shell 103c4e899bebd90b2c132301377089417800000035420000]')
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: stopped client: /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client3
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmXSMPClient: Client '0xb583f0 [gnome-shell 103c4e899bebd90b2c132301377089417800000035420000]' received CloseConnection
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: disconnect client
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: disconnect client: /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client3
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: in shutdown, not restarting application
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmStore: Unreffing object: 0xb583f0
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: Client removed: /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client3
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmClient: disposing /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client3
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmXSMPClient: xsmp_finalize (0xb583f0 [gnome-shell 103c4e899bebd90b2c132301377089417800000035420000])
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: disconnect client: /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client1
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: disconnect for app 'at-spi-registryd.desktop'
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: unable to find application for client - not restarting
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmStore: Unreffing object: 0xb61ec0
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmClient: disposing /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client1
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmStore: emitting removed for /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client1
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: Client removed: /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client1
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: disconnect client: /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client2
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: in shutdown, not restarting application
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmStore: Unreffing object: 0xb61e40
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmClient: disposing /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client2
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmStore: emitting removed for /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client2
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: Client removed: /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client2
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: last client disconnected - exiting
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: ending phase EXIT#012
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): Unreffing manager
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: disposing manager
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmStore: Clearing object store
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmStore: Unreffing object: 0xb5e8b0
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmStore: Unreffing object: 0xb5e990
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmStore: emitting removed for /org/gnome/SessionManager/App2
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmStore: emitting removed for /org/gnome/SessionManager/App1
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmStore: Clearing object store
gnome-session[3542]: DEBUG(+): GsmStore: Clearing object store
systemd-logind[1147]: Removed session 7.
gdm-simple-slave[3509]: WARNING: Child process 3542 was already dead.
Dec  4 15:49:38 why rtkit-daemon[1427]: Successfully made thread 3758 of process 3758 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11.
pulseaudio[3758]: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
Dec  4 15:49:38 why rtkit-daemon[1427]: Successfully made thread 3765 of process 3758 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '1000' RT at priority 5.
Dec  4 15:49:38 why rtkit-daemon[1427]: Successfully made thread 3766 of process 3758 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '1000' RT at priority 5.
dbus[1156]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.bluez' unit='dbus-org.bluez.service'
dbus-daemon[1156]: dbus[1156]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.bluez' unit='dbus-org.bluez.service'
dbus[1156]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.bluez.service': Unit dbus-org.bluez.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status dbus-org.bluez.service' for details.
dbus-daemon[1156]: dbus[1156]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.bluez.service': Unit dbus-org.bluez.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status dbus-org.bluez.service' for details.
pulseaudio[3758]: bluetooth-util.c: Error from ListAdapters reply: org.freedesktop.systemd1.LoadFailed
gnome-session[3606]: Gtk-WARNING: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:58:14: Themeing engine 'unico' not found
goa[3897]: goa-daemon version 3.2.1 starting [main.c:112, main()]
dbus[1156]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.bluez' unit='dbus-org.bluez.service'
dbus-daemon[1156]: dbus[1156]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.bluez' unit='dbus-org.bluez.service'
dbus[1156]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.bluez.service': Unit dbus-org.bluez.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status dbus-org.bluez.service' for details.
dbus-daemon[1156]: dbus[1156]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.bluez.service': Unit dbus-org.bluez.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status dbus-org.bluez.service' for details.
dbus[1156]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.bluez' unit='dbus-org.bluez.service'
dbus-daemon[1156]: dbus[1156]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.bluez' unit='dbus-org.bluez.service'
dbus[1156]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.bluez.service': Unit dbus-org.bluez.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status dbus-org.bluez.service' for details.
dbus-daemon[1156]: dbus[1156]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.bluez.service': Unit dbus-org.bluez.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status dbus-org.bluez.service' for details.

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Category: linux

12/04/11 10:04 - ID#55648

Making sense of /var/log/messages

If there is one thing that error messages in /var/log/messages are really good for it is for regular expressions practice. I think I am getting better at regex by using the regex tool in geany to sort out and condense the list of errors my system encounters almost daily. I don't know what most of these errors mean but I gather than anything that has "error|warning|failed" is a problem.

I am realizing that the error messages are organized and labeled pretty well. I was able to isolate all the problematic messages from different components of the system with some regexing, sorting, deletion of duplicate lines and numbers within brackets. I guess the numbers within brackets are IDs of sorts but I am just focusing on the unique errors for now. I whittled down the list of 933 lines to around 100. It would have been nice if I could get the count of how many times the error occurred right next to the error line, but I haven't figured out how to do that yet. Some of these errors/failures/warnings occur numerous times; some as many as 100 times.

Kernel

pci0000:00: ACPI _OSC request failed (AE_ERROR), returned control mask: 0x1d
Marking TSC unstable due to check_tsc_sync_source failed
Not enabling x2apic, Intr-remapping init failed.
[drm:intel_dsm_platform_mux_info] *ERROR* MUX INFO call failed
[drm:ironlake_update_pch_refclk] *ERROR* enabling SSC on PCH
[drm] MTRR allocation failed.Graphics performance may suffer.
[drm:ironlake_update_pch_refclk] *ERROR* enabling SSC on PCH
Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 12
WARNING! power/level is deprecated; use power/control instead
vlc: segfault at 0 ip 00007effc1acba80 sp 00007eff9a8ec420 error 4 in libtag.so.1.7.0[7effc1a90000+91000]
[Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
usb 2-1.3: clear tt 1 (0040) error -71
wacom: wacom_sys_irq - usb_submit_urb failed with result -19
nautilus: segfault at a8 ip 0000000000488444 sp 00007fffed693650 error 4 in nautilus[400000+159000]
[drm:pch_irq_handler] *ERROR* PCH poison interrupt
rhythmbox-metad: segfault at 9 ip 0000000000408255 sp 00007fff05453690 error 4 in rhythmbox-metadata[400000+12000]
rhythmbox-metad: segfault at 9 ip 0000000000408255 sp 00007fff3764fd10

NetworkManager

GLib-GIO-WARNING **: Missing callback called fullpath = /var/run/ConsoleKit/database
[nm-device-wifi.c:1815] nm_device_wifi_set_mode(): (wlan0): error setting mode 2
(wlan0): IP6 addrconf timed out or failed.
(wlan0): device state change: config -> failed (reason 'supplicant-timeout') [50 120 11]
(wlan0): device state change: failed -> disconnected (reason 'none') [120 30 0]
(wlan0): device state change: ip-config -> failed (reason 'ip-config-unavailable') [70 120 5]
Activation (wlan0) failed for access point (JetBlue Hotspot)
[nm-device-wifi.c:1815] nm_device_wifi_set_mode(): (wlan0): error setting mode 2
(wlan0): IP6 addrconf timed out or failed.
(wlan0): device state change: config -> failed (reason 'supplicant-timeout') [50 120 11]
(wlan0): device state change: failed -> disconnected (reason 'none') [120 30 0]
(wlan0): device state change: ip-config -> failed (reason 'ip-config-unavailable') [70 120 5]
Activation (wlan0) failed for access point (JetBlue Hotspot)
get_secret_flags: assertion `is_secret_prop (setting, secret_name, error)' failed
bluez error getting default adapter: Unit dbus-org.bluez.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status dbus-org.bluez.service' for details.
Activation (wlan0) failed for access point (RPCIpublic)
GLib-GIO-WARNING **: Missing callback called fullpath = /var/run/ConsoleKit/database

Hmm.. so basically, everytime I want to connect to a wifi hotspot, the system has this error: Activation (wlan0) failed for access point (ESSID of hotspot) Googling for this error brings up an enormous number of threads, for eg.

This is definitely a problem with the kernel module for my wireless card. I guess whoever made that module must not have tested it on multiple-point wireless access spots or where hotspot signals are weak. It does connect comfortably with a single access wireless spot at home. Kind of defeats the mobility of the laptop. Wish the people who made the kernel module would revisit the module in less than ideal wireless scenarios and do some bug-fixing because I am way in over my head trying to troubleshoot this. I tried (e:uncutsaniflush)'s suggestion of trying other kernels. Every kernel that I tried and that has a wireless module for my card pretty much has similar problems. So no luck there.

All this drama makes me conclude that the biggest thing that linux has going against it is hardware support. There is no dearth of software genius in the community.

dbus-daemon

UPower-Linux-WARNING **: energy_full (4.676000) is greater than energy_full_design (4.500000)
UPower-WARNING **: saving directly to disk as low power
dbus-daemon: Job failed. See system logs and 'systemctl status' for details.
dbus-daemon: dbus: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.bluez.service': Unit dbus-org.bluez.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status dbus-org.bluez.service' for details.
dbus-daemon: Exception TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in ignored
dbus: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.bluez.service': Unit dbus-org.bluez.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status dbus-org.bluez.service' for details.

"firstboot"

Window manager* 0 stored in GConf key /desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/cursor_size is out of range 1 to 128
Window manager* Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x400031 (firstboot)
Window manager* CurrentTime used to choose focus window; focus window may not be correct.
Window manager* Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on display ':9'.
Window manager* Got a request to focus the no_focus_window with a timestamp of 0. This shouldn't happen!
Window manager* meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
error reading information on service* No such file or directory
firstboot: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :9.

gdm-simple-slave

gdm-simple-slave: WARNING: Child process 1240 was already dead.

Erm, what? I often wonder who makes up linux jargon... Do they play a ton of dungeons and dragons? Daemons, slaves, you name it. All the weirdness of game terminology can be seen in the /var/log/messages file.

gnome-session

DEBUG(+): GsmXsmpServer: sms_error_handler (0x1714a90, FALSE, 3, 9, 32771, 0)
Gtk-WARNING: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:58:14: Themeing engine 'unico' not found
Gdk-WARNING:* Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.#012
WARNING: Application 'gnome-shell.desktop' killed by signal

Others:

mcelog: HARDWARE ERROR. This is *NOT* a software problem!
mcelog: mcelog: Unsupported new Family 6 Model 2a CPU: only decoding architectural errors
nm-dispatcher.action: Script '/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/11-dhclient' exited with error status 1.
pulseaudio: bluetooth-util.c: Error from ListAdapters reply: org.freedesktop.systemd1.LoadFailed
systemctl: Failed to issue method call: No such file or directory
systemd: Failed to read PID file /run/sendmail.pid after start. The service might be broken.
systemd: Failed to read PID file /run/sm-client.pid after start. The service might be broken.
systemd: Unit sendmail.service entered failed state.
udev-configure-printer: Failed to get parent

Text Processing Tools:
Apart from regexing, I found TextOpus online

I wish I could write perl programs that replicate the functionality of this tool. Or just download an offline version of the tool.

Actually I just want to be as skilled as Tomasz Klekot at text processing.

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Category: eating in

12/02/11 11:50 - ID#55643

Whole Wheat Flax Seed Fig Loaf

I think I have the magic ratio, finally.

1: Water
+ 2.00 ~2.25: Whole Wheat Flour
≥ 0.25: Ground Flax Seed {I think this is where you can add "whatever"}
+ 1 Tbsp: Fig butter
+ 2 Tbsp: Extra Virgin Olive Oil
+ generous salt
+ ~1/2 packet yeast

Let the yeast feast on
1:Water
1:Flour,
1tbsp olive oil
generous salt and the fig butter. (they like fig butter! It's basically food for the yeast. I couldn't taste it in the bread probably because the yeast ate it all.)

The feasting period ends with a warmish bubbly looking liquidy flour. Add the rest of the flour and extras and knead till ~~your arms fall off~~ the dough is not sticky but slightly tacky. Use the rest of the oil while kneading the dough.

Let the dough rest for 2-3 hours. (Up to 12 hours if you want to intensify the sour taste. I didn't have any patience today and allowed just 2 hours before I harvested the dough for the next phase.)

Punch it down, knead, shape and put in loaf pans.
Cover the loaf pan with an aluminium foil tent as a lid.
Put it in the oven. Let it sit for 30 more minutes.
Turn on the oven and set the temperature to 350-375 deg F.
Bake the loaf covered for around 30 minutes
Uncover, spray the bread with water and bake for 20~30 more minutes.

Let the bread cool (gluttons will be tempted to slice whiles it's still hot. I did! The result is super delicious but the bread is kind of wet and doughy with the water vapour and not like what you would expect from bread).

Slice after cooling. Spread speculoos paste or butter generously on slices and Enjoy!

Mission 5 accomplished! *
===
\*Ref: (e:tinypliny,55637)

PS: The pizza I made alongside this bread was an unmitigated disaster. The less said about it the better.

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Category: whine

12/02/11 10:27 - ID#55641

I don't want to like you!

Why does every corner shop and big retailer want me to "like" them on facebook?? It's so annoying especially when they link offers and discounts to this asinine practice.

I want those offers, dammit. But I don't want facebook. I won't get those offers and discounts if I don't submit to the lameness and sheep-herding on facebook.

Hmm...

I guess my resistance against facebook trumps my attraction to those offers.

I am glad it took so little time to get this quandary sorted.

PS: Where did the drawing gadget on (e:strip) go?

tinypliny writes at 07:02:48 12/03/11 - Comment #66552: yes, what you say is probably why they are doing that. Facebook does act like a sort of general aggregator. I remember my advisor saying she gets some cancer related news from facebook.

tinypliny writes at 07:00:44 12/03/11 - Comment #66551: hehe, nice idea about the portal. You can actually do that now all by yourself. Just grab the RSS feeds off the sites you are interested in and feed them into your Google Reader. Or set up a google alert and have it emailed to you enmasse everyday. :)

metalpeter writes at 06:49:30 12/03/11 - Comment #66546: Wonder how many have them on G+..... Liking them on Facebook for them is a great idea.... See this way (they are being green if you think about it since they aren't giving you say mailing every week?) When something new or news or some deal or they are going to be on say TV (Zillycakes) they can let everyone know... Or the other thing it is also good for is Promotion.... As an example again of Zillycakes there is this holiday something out in Niagara Falls I think and Zilly is there selling stuff well anyone who follows them knows about that market (I'm not busing it to the falls just for that hence why I don't know all the details)..... See what Facebook I think may become in some time is what they call a Portal (sure you know about what portal sites are what I think they are is this) Site.... Where instead of knowing what is going on by having to go to say 30 sites (well less but just a number) you can just go to one site and follow them all.... As an example.... I know you like the Chocolate place and Price rite and lets say you where still going to dance classes at a certain studio.... Well to find out what was going on before that is 3 different sites now at facebook you could find out what is going on at one site.... Imagine if you shopped everywhere on the strip......

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Category: goals

12/01/11 06:28 - ID#55637

I wish I could learn...

0. R completely and thoroughly
1. Perl well
2. Unix commands well (so commandline becomes second nature)
3. to churn out papers like a maniac (aka postdoc)
4. how to make perfect stovetop popcorn
5. how to make a perfect sourdough bread every single time
6. how to make perfect pancakes or waffles
7. how to make pizza base without a recipe and well.

I intend to get a head start on those resolutions.

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Category: the odes

12/01/11 05:26 - ID#55635

America loves McDs

181,456 X $13 (out of which McD's get $6.50) and counting.

I am tempted to get those 5 large fries.
---
EDIT
Whoa. They extended the deal by a day. And 20K more people have been caught in the ~~fly~~ fry trap. That is almost approaching the size of the whole population of Buffalo.

And damn, I totally missed out the $10 Whole Foods deal! I need to check my spam folder more often. :)

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Category: chemicals

12/01/11 05:14 - ID#55632

Tale of a Nail Wimp.

I obviously wasn't thinking much or even clearly last week. I have weird-feeling nails now thanks to that phase of temporary brain-fog.

I unconsciously scrubbed my kitchen and bathroom sinks without any gloves on. The bleach eroded the top layer of my nails and my palm skin off. It looked pretty scary. Moisturizing didn't make any difference. I was afraid that my nails would just keep unraveling, become brittle and fall off before the new growth had a chance to come in.

My bout with fogged non-existent thought processes didn't end there.

I don't own any clear nail polish and didn't want to get an entire bottle, so I actually went in to a nails parlour to see if they could apply a clear coat of polish to the damaged nails. They gave me a manicure. I should have just walked out, but I didn't because I was too worried about the rough and torn appearance of my nail surfaces... and I admit I was curious about how my nails would look like with a coat of polish (even though I could not bring myself to select anything other than clear polish).

It was a really bad idea. I should have listened to the tiny voice in my head that usually warns me about impending doom. It was totally yelling and I ignored it. The result is my nails feel weird now. I know that there are no nerve endings on nails but I can actually feel the coat of clear polish on them. It is almost as if my nails are having trouble breathing and moving. Ugh, how do people tolerate this weird-feeling? It doesn't feel good at all to have this extra sensory input from things that usually stay out of my conscious senses. I want to rub off the polish but I don't want any more chemicals on my nails - at least for now. Nail polish remover seems worse than nail polish for eroded nails.

Well.

I guess there is a positive aspect to this nail drama. It's good to know that I haven't missed anything by not owning any nail polish all these years and I am pretty sure now that I can live the rest of my life without it. And it doesn't pay to scrub sinks without gloves on.

(e:lilho), you are not just a fashion icon, you are a brave woman.

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Category: linux

11/30/11 08:32 - ID#55628

Installing ARandR on Fedora 16

Fedora's inbuilt display management GUI has no way of turning the primary laptop monitor off and use the secondary external monitor as the ONLY display. {BOO! I hate you fedora 16. I. hate. you.}

So I installed ARandR, a very nifty display manager.

And of course installation can never ever be straightforward on linux. On the webpage of arandr, there is no rpm (or binary) for the arandr gui, so I tried to follow the compile-and-install instructions:

From

wget
tar xzf arandr-0.1.5.tar.gz
cd arandr-0.1.5

sudo ./setup.py install

Easy enough, right?
Wrong.

An error popped up:
ImportError: No module named docutils.core

So I went to this

and installed docutils:

wget
tar xzf docutils-snapshot.tgz
cd docutils/

sudo ./setup.py install

And came out of that directory, went into the directory I un-tared the arandr files and ran this again:

sudo ./setup.py install

Success. I now have arandr installed on this wretched system and can finally turn my laptop monitor off.

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Category: linux

11/30/11 07:04 - ID#55627

Very verbose lspci

While installing Fedora 16, it asks if it can send your hardware profile through to the mothership. I always say yes. It can't hurt can it? It helps the developers see how wide of a hardware base they need to be compatible with. I always wondered where this mothership was exactly. Well, I found it. It's in a website with a rather dodgy name called "smolt.org". My hardware profile has an admin password and everything and it's here at this link.

But that hardware profile isn't detailed enough. Want all the more-than-you-could-possibly-need details about your computer? Try:

sudo lspci -vv

Behold more information than you ever needed about the Toshiba P750

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09)
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device fc31
    Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 0
    Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information: Len=0c <?>
    Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel

.....

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Core Processor Family PCI Express Root Port (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
    Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
    Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
    I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff
    Memory behind bridge: f6000000-f70fffff
    Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000e0000000-00000000f1ffffff
    Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
    BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
        PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
    Capabilities: [88] Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device fc31
    Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 3
        Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
        Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
    Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
        Address: feeff00c Data: 4151
    Capabilities: [a0] Express (v2) Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
        DevCap:    MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
            ExtTag- RBE+ FLReset-
        DevCtl:    Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
            RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
            MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
        DevSta:    CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr- TransPend-
        LnkCap:    Port #2, Speed 5GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 <256ns, L1 <4us
            ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot+
        LnkCtl:    ASPM L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+
            ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
        LnkSta:    Speed 5GT/s, Width x16, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt+ ABWMgmt-
        SltCap:    AttnBtn- PwrCtrl- MRL- AttnInd- PwrInd- HotPlug- Surprise-
            Slot #1, PowerLimit 75.000W; Interlock- NoCompl+
        SltCtl:    Enable: AttnBtn- PwrFlt- MRL- PresDet- CmdCplt- HPIrq- LinkChg-
            Control: AttnInd Unknown, PwrInd Unknown, Power- Interlock-
        SltSta:    Status: AttnBtn- PowerFlt- MRL- CmdCplt- PresDet+ Interlock-
            Changed: MRL- PresDet+ LinkState-
        RootCtl: ErrCorrectable- ErrNon-Fatal- ErrFatal- PMEIntEna- CRSVisible-
        RootCap: CRSVisible-
        RootSta: PME ReqID 0000, PMEStatus- PMEPending-
        DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Not Supported, TimeoutDis- ARIFwd-
        DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis- ARIFwd-
        LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-, Selectable De-emphasis: -3.5dB
             Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS-
             Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB
        LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -3.5dB
    Capabilities: [100 v1] Virtual Channel
        Caps:    LPEVC=0 RefClk=100ns PATEntryBits=1
        Arb:    Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128-
        Ctrl:    ArbSelect=Fixed
        Status:    InProgress-
        VC0:    Caps:    PATOffset=00 MaxTimeSlots=1 RejSnoopTrans-
            Arb:    Fixed+ WRR32- WRR64- WRR128- TWRR128- WRR256-
            Ctrl:    Enable+ ID=0 ArbSelect=Fixed TC/VC=01
            Status:    NegoPending- InProgress-
    Capabilities: [140 v1] Root Complex Link
        Desc:    PortNumber=02 ComponentID=01 EltType=Config
        Link0:    Desc:    TargetPort=00 TargetComponent=01 AssocRCRB- LinkType=MemMapped LinkValid+
            Addr:    00000000fed19000
    Kernel driver in use: pcieport
    Kernel modules: shpchp

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00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device fc31
    Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 0
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 50
    Region 0: Memory at f7400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
    Region 2: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
    Region 4: I/O ports at f000 [size=64]
    Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
    Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
        Address: feeff00c Data: 41a9
    Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
        Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
        Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
    Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features
        AFCap: TP+ FLR+
        AFCtrl: FLR-
        AFStatus: TP-
    Kernel driver in use: i915
    Kernel modules: i915

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00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device fc30
    Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 0
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
    Region 0: Memory at f7b0a000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
    Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
        Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
        Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
    Capabilities: [8c] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000

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00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device fc30
    Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 0
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
    Region 0: Memory at f7b08000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
    Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
        Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
    Capabilities: [58] Debug port: BAR=1 offset=00a0
    Capabilities: [98] PCI Advanced Features
        AFCap: TP+ FLR+
        AFCtrl: FLR-
        AFStatus: TP-
    Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

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00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device fc30
    Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 52
    Region 0: Memory at f7b00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=55mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
        Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
    Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Address: 00000000feeff00c Data: 41c9
    Capabilities: [70] Express (v1) Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
        DevCap:    MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
            ExtTag- RBE- FLReset+
        DevCtl:    Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
            RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
            MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
        DevSta:    CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr+ TransPend-
        LnkCap:    Port #0, Speed unknown, Width x0, ASPM unknown, Latency L0 <64ns, L1 <1us
            ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
        LnkCtl:    ASPM Disabled; Disabled- Retrain- CommClk-
            ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
        LnkSta:    Speed unknown, Width x0, TrErr- Train- SlotClk- DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
    Capabilities: [100 v1] Virtual Channel
        Caps:    LPEVC=0 RefClk=100ns PATEntryBits=1
        Arb:    Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128-
        Ctrl:    ArbSelect=Fixed
        Status:    InProgress-
        VC0:    Caps:    PATOffset=00 MaxTimeSlots=1 RejSnoopTrans-
            Arb:    Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128- TWRR128- WRR256-
            Ctrl:    Enable+ ID=0 ArbSelect=Fixed TC/VC=01
            Status:    NegoPending- InProgress-
        VC1:    Caps:    PATOffset=00 MaxTimeSlots=1 RejSnoopTrans-
            Arb:    Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128- TWRR128- WRR256-
            Ctrl:    Enable+ ID=1 ArbSelect=Fixed TC/VC=22
            Status:    NegoPending- InProgress-
    Capabilities: [130 v1] Root Complex Link
        Desc:    PortNumber=0f ComponentID=00 EltType=Config
        Link0:    Desc:    TargetPort=00 TargetComponent=00 AssocRCRB- LinkType=MemMapped LinkValid+
            Addr:    00000000fed1c000
    Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
    Kernel modules: snd-had-intel

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00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b4) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
    Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
    Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
    I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
    Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f2100000-00000000f21fffff
    Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
    BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
        PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
    Capabilities: [40] Express (v2) Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
        DevCap:    MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
            ExtTag- RBE+ FLReset-
        DevCtl:    Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
            RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
            MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
        DevSta:    CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr+ TransPend-
        LnkCap:    Port #1, Speed 5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 <512ns, L1 <16us
            ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep+ BwNot-
        LnkCtl:    ASPM L0s L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+
            ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
        LnkSta:    Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive+ BWMgmt+ ABWMgmt-
        SltCap:    AttnBtn- PwrCtrl- MRL- AttnInd- PwrInd- HotPlug- Surprise-
            Slot #0, PowerLimit 10.000W; Interlock- NoCompl+
        SltCtl:    Enable: AttnBtn- PwrFlt- MRL- PresDet- CmdCplt- HPIrq- LinkChg-
            Control: AttnInd Unknown, PwrInd Unknown, Power- Interlock-
        SltSta:    Status: AttnBtn- PowerFlt- MRL- CmdCplt- PresDet+ Interlock-
            Changed: MRL- PresDet- LinkState+
        RootCtl: ErrCorrectable- ErrNon-Fatal- ErrFatal- PMEIntEna- CRSVisible-
        RootCap: CRSVisible-
        RootSta: PME ReqID 0000, PMEStatus- PMEPending-
        DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Range BC, TimeoutDis+ ARIFwd-
        DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis- ARIFwd-
        LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 2.5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-, Selectable De-emphasis: -6dB
             Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS-
             Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB
        LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -3.5dB
    Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
        Address: 00000000 Data: 0000
    Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device fc30
    Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
        Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
        Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
    Kernel driver in use: pcieport
    Kernel modules: shpchp

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00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev b4) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
    Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
    Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
    I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff
    Memory behind bridge: f7a00000-f7afffff
    Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
    BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
        PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
    Capabilities: [40] Express (v2) Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
        DevCap:    MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
            ExtTag- RBE+ FLReset-
        DevCtl:    Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
            RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
            MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
        DevSta:    CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr+ TransPend-
        LnkCap:    Port #2, Speed 5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 <512ns, L1 <16us
            ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep+ BwNot-
        LnkCtl:    ASPM L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+
            ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
        LnkSta:    Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive+ BWMgmt+ ABWMgmt-
        SltCap:    AttnBtn- PwrCtrl- MRL- AttnInd- PwrInd- HotPlug- Surprise-
            Slot #1, PowerLimit 10.000W; Interlock- NoCompl+
        SltCtl:    Enable: AttnBtn- PwrFlt- MRL- PresDet- CmdCplt- HPIrq- LinkChg-
            Control: AttnInd Unknown, PwrInd Unknown, Power- Interlock-
        SltSta:    Status: AttnBtn- PowerFlt- MRL- CmdCplt- PresDet+ Interlock-
            Changed: MRL- PresDet- LinkState+
        RootCtl: ErrCorrectable- ErrNon-Fatal- ErrFatal- PMEIntEna- CRSVisible-
        RootCap: CRSVisible-
        RootSta: PME ReqID 0000, PMEStatus- PMEPending-
        DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Range BC, TimeoutDis+ ARIFwd-
        DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis- ARIFwd-
        LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 2.5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-, Selectable De-emphasis: -6dB
             Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS-
             Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB
        LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -3.5dB
    Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
        Address: 00000000 Data: 0000
    Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device fc30
    Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
        Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
        Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
    Kernel driver in use: pcieport
    Kernel modules: shpchp

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00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev b4) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
    Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
    Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
    Memory behind bridge: f7900000-f79fffff
    Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR-
    BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
        PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
    Capabilities: [40] Express (v2) Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
        DevCap:    MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
            ExtTag- RBE+ FLReset-
        DevCtl:    Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
            RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
            MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
        DevSta:    CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr+ TransPend-
        LnkCap:    Port #4, Speed 5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 <512ns, L1 <16us
            ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep+ BwNot-
        LnkCtl:    ASPM L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+
            ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
        LnkSta:    Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive+ BWMgmt+ ABWMgmt-
        SltCap:    AttnBtn- PwrCtrl- MRL- AttnInd- PwrInd- HotPlug- Surprise-
            Slot #3, PowerLimit 10.000W; Interlock- NoCompl+
        SltCtl:    Enable: AttnBtn- PwrFlt- MRL- PresDet- CmdCplt- HPIrq- LinkChg-
            Control: AttnInd Unknown, PwrInd Unknown, Power- Interlock-
        SltSta:    Status: AttnBtn- PowerFlt- MRL- CmdCplt- PresDet+ Interlock-
            Changed: MRL- PresDet- LinkState+
        RootCtl: ErrCorrectable- ErrNon-Fatal- ErrFatal- PMEIntEna- CRSVisible-
        RootCap: CRSVisible-
        RootSta: PME ReqID 0000, PMEStatus- PMEPending-
        DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Range BC, TimeoutDis+ ARIFwd-
        DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis- ARIFwd-
        LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 2.5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-, Selectable De-emphasis: -6dB
             Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS-
             Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB
        LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -3.5dB
    Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
        Address: 00000000 Data: 0000
    Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device fc30
    Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
        Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
        Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
    Kernel driver in use: pcieport
    Kernel modules: shpchp

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00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev b4) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
    Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
    Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=05, sec-latency=0
    Memory behind bridge: f7800000-f78fffff
    Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
    BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
        PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
    Capabilities: [40] Express (v2) Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
        DevCap:    MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
            ExtTag- RBE+ FLReset-
        DevCtl:    Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
            RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
            MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
        DevSta:    CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr+ TransPend-
        LnkCap:    Port #6, Speed 5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 <512ns, L1 <16us
            ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep+ BwNot-
        LnkCtl:    ASPM L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+
            ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
        LnkSta:    Speed 5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive+ BWMgmt+ ABWMgmt-
        SltCap:    AttnBtn- PwrCtrl- MRL- AttnInd- PwrInd- HotPlug- Surprise-
            Slot #5, PowerLimit 10.000W; Interlock- NoCompl+
        SltCtl:    Enable: AttnBtn- PwrFlt- MRL- PresDet- CmdCplt- HPIrq- LinkChg-
            Control: AttnInd Unknown, PwrInd Unknown, Power- Interlock-
        SltSta:    Status: AttnBtn- PowerFlt- MRL- CmdCplt- PresDet+ Interlock-
            Changed: MRL- PresDet- LinkState+
        RootCtl: ErrCorrectable- ErrNon-Fatal- ErrFatal- PMEIntEna- CRSVisible-
        RootCap: CRSVisible-
        RootSta: PME ReqID 0000, PMEStatus- PMEPending-
        DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Range BC, TimeoutDis+ ARIFwd-
        DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis- ARIFwd-
        LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-, Selectable De-emphasis: -6dB
             Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS-
             Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB
        LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -6dB
    Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
        Address: 00000000 Data: 0000
    Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device fc30
    Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
        Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
        Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
    Kernel driver in use: pcieport
    Kernel modules: shpchp

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00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device fc30
    Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 0
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 23
    Region 0: Memory at f7b07000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
    Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
        Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
    Capabilities: [58] Debug port: BAR=1 offset=00a0
    Capabilities: [98] PCI Advanced Features
        AFCap: TP+ FLR+
        AFCtrl: FLR-
        AFStatus: TP-
    Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

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00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM65 Express Chipset Family LPC Controller (rev 04)
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device fc30
    Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 0
    Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information: Len=0c <?>
    Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt

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00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 04) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device fc30
    Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 0
    Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 41
    Region 0: I/O ports at f0b0 [size=8]
    Region 1: I/O ports at f0a0 [size=4]
    Region 2: I/O ports at f090 [size=8]
    Region 3: I/O ports at f080 [size=4]
    Region 4: I/O ports at f060 [size=32]
    Region 5: Memory at f7b06000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
    Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
        Address: fee4400c Data: 4159
    Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3
        Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold-)
        Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
    Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA v1.0 BAR4 Offset=00000004
    Capabilities: [b0] PCI Advanced Features
        AFCap: TP+ FLR+
        AFCtrl: FLR-
        AFStatus: TP-
    Kernel driver in use: ahci
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00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device fc30
    Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
    Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 18
    Region 0: Memory at f7b05000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
    Region 4: I/O ports at f040 [size=32]
    Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
    Kernel modules: i2c-i801

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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GF106 [GeForce GT 555M SDDR3] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device fc31
    Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
    Region 0: Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
    Region 1: Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
    Region 3: Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
    Region 5: I/O ports at e000 [size=128]
    Expansion ROM at f7000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
    Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
        Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
        Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
    Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000
    Capabilities: [78] Express (v2) Endpoint, MSI 00
        DevCap:    MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s unlimited, L1 <64us
            ExtTag+ AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-
        DevCtl:    Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
            RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
            MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
        DevSta:    CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr- TransPend-
        LnkCap:    Port #0, Speed 5GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 <256ns, L1 <4us
            ClockPM+ Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
        LnkCtl:    ASPM L1 Enabled; RCB 128 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+
            ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
        LnkSta:    Speed 5GT/s, Width x16, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
        DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Not Supported, TimeoutDis+
        DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis-
        LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-, Selectable De-emphasis: -6dB
             Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS-
             Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB
        LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -6dB
    Capabilities: [b4] Vendor Specific Information: Len=14 <?>
    Capabilities: [100 v1] Virtual Channel
        Caps:    LPEVC=0 RefClk=100ns PATEntryBits=1
        Arb:    Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128-
        Ctrl:    ArbSelect=Fixed
        Status:    InProgress-
        VC0:    Caps:    PATOffset=00 MaxTimeSlots=1 RejSnoopTrans-
            Arb:    Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128- TWRR128- WRR256-
            Ctrl:    Enable+ ID=0 ArbSelect=Fixed TC/VC=01
            Status:    NegoPending- InProgress-
    Capabilities: [128 v1] Power Budgeting <?>
    Capabilities: [600 v1] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=024 <?>
    Kernel driver in use: nouveau
    Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidiafb

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02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06)
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device fc30
    Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 51
    Region 0: I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
    Region 2: Memory at f2104000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
    Region 4: Memory at f2100000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
        Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
        Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
    Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Address: 00000000feeff00c Data: 41b9
    Capabilities: [70] Express (v2) Endpoint, MSI 01
        DevCap:    MaxPayload 256 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <512ns, L1 <64us
            ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-
        DevCtl:    Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
            RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
            MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 4096 bytes
        DevSta:    CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr+ TransPend-
        LnkCap:    Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 <512ns, L1 <64us
            ClockPM+ Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
        LnkCtl:    ASPM L0s L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+
            ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
        LnkSta:    Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
        DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Not Supported, TimeoutDis+
        DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis-
        LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 2.5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-, Selectable De-emphasis: -6dB
             Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS-
             Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB
        LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -6dB
    Capabilities: [b0] MSI-X: Enable- Count=4 Masked-
        Vector table: BAR=4 offset=00000000
        PBA: BAR=4 offset=00000800
    Capabilities: [d0] Vital Product Data
        Unknown small resource type 00, will not decode more.
    Capabilities: [100 v1] Advanced Error Reporting
        UESta:    DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
        UEMsk:    DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
        UESvrt:    DLP+ SDES+ TLP- FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF+ MalfTLP+ ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
        CESta:    RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr-
        CEMsk:    RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr+
        AERCap:    First Error Pointer: 00, GenCap+ CGenEn- ChkCap+ ChkEn-
    Capabilities: [140 v1] Virtual Channel
        Caps:    LPEVC=0 RefClk=100ns PATEntryBits=1
        Arb:    Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128-
        Ctrl:    ArbSelect=Fixed
        Status:    InProgress-
        VC0:    Caps:    PATOffset=00 MaxTimeSlots=1 RejSnoopTrans-
            Arb:    Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128- TWRR128- WRR256-
            Ctrl:    Enable+ ID=0 ArbSelect=Fixed TC/VC=01
            Status:    NegoPending- InProgress-
    Capabilities: [160 v1] Device Serial Number 5e-00-00-00-68-4c-e0-00
    Kernel driver in use: r8169
    Kernel modules: r8169

AHA! WIRELESS CARD and its ridiculous inbuilt driver from Fedora 16 that is causing me so much heartache.

03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8184
    Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
    Region 0: I/O ports at c000 [size=256]
    Region 2: Memory at f7a00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
        Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
        Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
    Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000
    Capabilities: [70] Express (v2) Endpoint, MSI 00
        DevCap:    MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <512ns, L1 <64us
            ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-
        DevCtl:    Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
            RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
            MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
        DevSta:    CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr+ TransPend-
        LnkCap:    Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 <512ns, L1 <64us
            ClockPM+ Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
        LnkCtl:    ASPM L0s L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+
            ExtSynch- ClockPM+ AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
        LnkSta:    Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
        DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Not Supported, TimeoutDis+
        DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis+
        LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 2.5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-, Selectable De-emphasis: -6dB
             Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS-
             Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB
        LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -6dB
    Capabilities: [100 v1] Advanced Error Reporting
        UESta:    DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
        UEMsk:    DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
        UESvrt:    DLP+ SDES+ TLP- FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF+ MalfTLP+ ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
        CESta:    RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr-
        CEMsk:    RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr+
        AERCap:    First Error Pointer: 00, GenCap+ CGenEn- ChkCap+ ChkEn-
    Capabilities: [140 v1] Virtual Channel
        Caps:    LPEVC=0 RefClk=100ns PATEntryBits=1
        Arb:    Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128-
        Ctrl:    ArbSelect=Fixed
        Status:    InProgress-
        VC0:    Caps:    PATOffset=00 MaxTimeSlots=1 RejSnoopTrans-
            Arb:    Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128- TWRR128- WRR256-
            Ctrl:    Enable+ ID=0 ArbSelect=Fixed TC/VC=01
            Status:    NegoPending- InProgress-
    Capabilities: [160 v1] Device Serial Number 01-91-81-fe-ff-4c-e0-00
    Kernel driver in use: rtl8192ce
    Kernel modules: rtl8192ce

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04:00.0 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller (rev 30)
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device fc30
    Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19
    Region 0: Memory at f7903000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
    Capabilities: [a4] Power Management version 3
        Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
        Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
    Capabilities: [80] Express (v1) Endpoint, MSI 00
        DevCap:    MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
            ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-
        DevCtl:    Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
            RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
            MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
        DevSta:    CorrErr+ UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr- TransPend-
        LnkCap:    Port #1, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 unlimited, L1 unlimited
            ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
        LnkCtl:    ASPM L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+
            ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
        LnkSta:    Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
    Capabilities: [94] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
        Address: fffffffc Data: 0000
    Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci
    Kernel modules: sdhci-pci

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04:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller (rev 30) (prog-if 01)
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device fc30
    Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19
    Region 0: Memory at f7902000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
    Capabilities: [a4] Power Management version 3
        Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
        Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
    Capabilities: [80] Express (v1) Endpoint, MSI 00
        DevCap:    MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
            ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-
        DevCtl:    Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
            RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
            MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
        DevSta:    CorrErr+ UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr- TransPend-
        LnkCap:    Port #1, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 unlimited, L1 unlimited
            ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
        LnkCtl:    ASPM L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+
            ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
        LnkSta:    Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
    Capabilities: [94] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
        Address: fffffffc Data: 0000
    Kernel modules: sdhci-pci

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04:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. MS Host Controller (rev 30)
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device fc30
    Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19
    Region 0: Memory at f7901000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
    Capabilities: [a4] Power Management version 3
        Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
        Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
    Capabilities: [80] Express (v1) Endpoint, MSI 00
        DevCap:    MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
            ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-
        DevCtl:    Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
            RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
            MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
        DevSta:    CorrErr+ UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr- TransPend-
        LnkCap:    Port #1, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 unlimited, L1 unlimited
            ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
        LnkCtl:    ASPM L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+
            ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
        LnkSta:    Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
    Capabilities: [94] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
        Address: fffffffc Data: 0000
    Kernel driver in use: jmb38x_ms
    Kernel modules: jmb38x_ms

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04:00.4 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. xD Host Controller (rev 30)
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device fc30
    Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5
    Region 0: Memory at f7900000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
    Capabilities: [a4] Power Management version 3
        Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
        Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
    Capabilities: [80] Express (v1) Endpoint, MSI 00
        DevCap:    MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
            ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-
        DevCtl:    Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
            RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
            MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
        DevSta:    CorrErr+ UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr- TransPend-
        LnkCap:    Port #1, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 unlimited, L1 unlimited
            ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
        LnkCtl:    ASPM L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+
            ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
        LnkSta:    Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
    Capabilities: [94] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
        Address: fffffffc Data: 0000

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05:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 04) (prog-if 30 [XHCI])
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device fc30
    Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
    Region 0: Memory at f7800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
    Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
        Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
        Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
    Capabilities: [70] MSI: Enable- Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+
        Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000
    Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=8 Masked-
        Vector table: BAR=0 offset=00001000
        PBA: BAR=0 offset=00001080
    Capabilities: [a0] Express (v2) Endpoint, MSI 00
        DevCap:    MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s unlimited, L1 unlimited
            ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-
        DevCtl:    Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
            RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
            MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
        DevSta:    CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr+ TransPend-
        LnkCap:    Port #0, Speed 5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 <4us, L1 unlimited
            ClockPM+ Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
        LnkCtl:    ASPM L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+
            ExtSynch- ClockPM+ AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
        LnkSta:    Speed 5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
        DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Not Supported, TimeoutDis+
        DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis-
        LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-, Selectable De-emphasis: -6dB
             Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS-
             Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB
        LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -6dB
    Capabilities: [100 v1] Advanced Error Reporting
        UESta:    DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
        UEMsk:    DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
        UESvrt:    DLP+ SDES+ TLP- FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF+ MalfTLP+ ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
        CESta:    RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr-
        CEMsk:    RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr+
        AERCap:    First Error Pointer: 00, GenCap- CGenEn- ChkCap- ChkEn-
    Capabilities: [140 v1] Device Serial Number ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff
    Capabilities: [150 v1] #18
    Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd

Output of lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net

02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 06)
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:fc30]
    Kernel driver in use: r8169
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03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter [10ec:8176] (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:8184]
    Kernel driver in use: rtl8192ce

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11/30/11 12:17 - ID#55623

Fedora 16 Wireless Connectivity Problems

I completed the switch to F16 yesterday. I always had that error about the nouveau drivers not being able to handle dynamic processor switching between the nvidia video processor and the integrated graphics processors in F15.

In Fedora 16, I have an additional error that shows up in the boot sequence.

[drm:ironlake_update_pch_refclk] *ERROR* enabling SSC on PCH

This is a Toshiba Satellite P750 laptop running an intel core i7. The laptop boots okay after these couple errors. I don't know what it is about. A little googling shows that Linus Torvalds has encountered this error too, on his Lenovo machine.

~~But I can't find any resolution to the issue.~~

EDIT!!

This has been fixed as of 14th Dec 2011. I guess things that Linus notices and Google pluses about get more attention than just random users whining about bigger problems.

Nevermind the premature edit. It's back.

But that error is very trivial and the least of my concerns. My primary source of irritation with Fedora 16 is its appalling network connectivity and performance. My first impressions of Fedora 16 were somewhat mixed. The install went very smoothly. They have finally incorporated my wireless driver into the default package. So wireless is recognized right away.

However, the performance of the wireless driver is extremely poor. It is almost impossible to reliably connect with open wifi at work and other hotspots with the new Fedora 16. This is the speed I am getting from the T1 connection at work:

While my mobile phone with android was able to connect with every random wireless hotspot all across NYC, the stupid Fedora 16 laptop could not connect to ANY of them. Wireless performance has always been pretty subpar with Fedora 15. Now, with Fedora 16, it is just abysmally horrid. It only connects if the router is like 2 metres away from the laptop or has very strong signals. This is obviously not practical anywhere but home. So essentially, switching to Fedora 16 has converted my laptop into a home-bound desktop.

I cannot possibly be impressed with anything that constantly struggles to connect with wireless access points ALL the time. It's so bad, it's ridiculous.

Specifically, these modules and drivers:

Kernel driver in use: rtl8192ce
Kernel modules: rtl8192ce

are ultimate crap in driver technology.

Output of dmesg | grep firmware

[ 23.160984] NetworkManager[1048]: monitoring kernel firmware directory '/lib/firmware'.
[ 23.160992] NetworkManager[1048]: NetworkManager[1048]: monitoring kernel firmware directory '/lib/firmware'.
[ 23.309242] rtl8192c_common: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin

I just found that I am not the only one whining.

There are other people out there who are having similar network problems with this wretched distribution. I cannot blame it on my linux "newbieness-I-probably-don't-know-what-I-am-doing" this time around.

Fedora 16. You really do SUCK. Big time.

EDIT:
Some cool commands for investigating what exactly is going on here:
sudo cat /var/log/* | grep -e rtl -e firmware -e wlan -e wpa -e etwork | tail -n55
{gives you all the network related "happenings" as recorded by the system logs}

nm-tool
{gives you a list of networks that your computer can see}

iwconfig
{gives you the configuration of the wireless you are currently connected with}

dmesg | grep rtl
{gives you this:}
[ 20.066460] rtl8192ce 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 20.066469] rtl8192ce 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 20.084887] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'rtl_rc'
[ 20.085214] rtlwifi: wireless switch is on
[ 23.306151] NetworkManager[1048]: <info> (wlan0): new 802.11 WiFi device (driver: 'rtl8192ce' ifindex: 3)
[ 23.306168] NetworkManager[1048]: NetworkManager[1048]: <info> (wlan0): new 802.11 WiFi device (driver: 'rtl8192ce' ifindex: 3)
[ 23.309242] rtl8192c_common: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
[34868.924818] rtl8192c_common: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin

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EDIT 2:
To anyone who is checking out this message, click the comment icon in the bottom and check out the comments too.

tinypliny writes at 05:37:34 12/30/11 - Comment #66943: There is also this Fedora-based distribution called Kororaa :::link::: Not so much a stickler for the rigid FOSS philosophy. But I have no idea if wireless would be any better. I might try it out later in January when I am done with all this work I have now...

tinypliny writes at 05:22:32 12/30/11 - Comment #66941: Yes, my wireless modem had no inbuilt support in F15 as well and never showed up. So I used to download and compile the modem driver from the realtek site. With this new kernel in F16, they incorporated drivers of modems that have been around for a long time, finally. But they totally made a hash of it because a good number of us are having trouble with dropped wireless access. I went all around the web reading several forums and the new ubuntu with the gnome 3 shell also seems to have similar issue. This makes me think its a sort of joint issue with the new kernel and new gnome implementation.

The updates did help with the crashes a bit but there has been no improvement on the wireless front thus far. Worse is the attitude of several linux users who just don't want to even admit that wireless support is so subpar.

I honestly want to just wrings my hands and pull out my hair some days. My basic reason for sticking with Fedora is simple. The Debian implementation for R Statistical software is faulty and I am not expert enough to build R for debian on my own. So I migrated to fedora. If you don't have any such issues, have you tried, say Crunchbang Linux or even vanilla Debian with your system? I remember that some of the distributions, for example, WattOS were better with their wireless access compared to utterly disappointing Fedora 16 version.

tinypliny writes at 05:10:45 12/30/11 - Comment #66940: Check out the laptop Fedora forum here: :::link::: If you have some interesting stuff in your /var/log/message, they might be able to diagnose the root of your troubles (or maybe not). It's worth a try!

quovadisnp writes at 05:09:37 12/30/11 - Comment #66939: I'm using an old linksys wusb600n, one of the few adapters I've found that just works on Linux, no setup hassle....till now. The plus for fedora 16 is that now my linksys ae1000 finally shows up. Both devices have the same problem though. Wireless has always been a problem in Linux, I just never expected we would go backwards

tinypliny writes at 05:01:41 12/30/11 - Comment #66938: I know exactly how you feel, unfortunately. :( Take a look at the Fedora forums. It's swamped with wireless-related F16 issues. You could try updating your system: (sudo yum update). It solves some crash issues but wireless connectivity is still just absolutely and horrendously crappy. Which wireless card do you have?

quovadisnp writes at 03:37:24 12/30/11 - Comment #66937: Fedora 16 wireless absolutely sucks. I moved from Fedora 15 to Fedora 16, absolutely no hardware changes. In Fedora 15, my wireless adapter worked decent enough but not as great as in Windows; in Fedora 15 the connection averaged around 150mbps but in Windows the adapter averages at 270mbs. I decided to upgrade to Fedora 16 because it advertised better wireless support......screw you Fedora. Everything regarding wireless is horrible now and I am extremely tired of frequent, frequent, frequent disconnects. I was so excited initially to see other areas of improvement but with this wireless issue I'm losing my faith in Fedora.

tinypliny writes at 09:20:39 12/15/11 - Comment #66759: Nevermind, the ironlake error has come right back.

tinypliny writes at 04:32:29 12/14/11 - Comment #66740: The ironlake error has been fixed in the latest kernel update. Good riddance. One less error message to stare at.

tinypliny writes at 10:22:58 12/01/11 - Comment #66511: Maybe this is the *real* issue:

"I am connected to another network now and I appear to not be having issues. I think my wifi card has a problem with recognizing that all ECE networks are the same, so maybe it keeps switching between them."

Jetblue and Roswell all have multiple access points and have weak signals on many access points. The wireless does fine with my network at home. Maybe the multiple access point issue has not been addressed in the driver. You have the exact same scenario as mine in that Ubuntu thread: :::link::: The OP finally moved to windows which definitely has better wireless connectivity.

tinypliny writes at 10:14:38 12/01/11 - Comment #66510: Another suggestion from the same thread:

"Try to change the ESSID to a one without blanks"

Huh, what am I supposed to do, hack into a public network to change its ESSID?!

tinypliny writes at 10:13:17 12/01/11 - Comment #66509: Another interesting insight about why work's network situation might be bad: :::link:::

"You have many network's in your area and to make it worse many of them are named the same as the one you are connecting too and are on the same channel, all of that is a nightmare with network manager. "

tinypliny writes at 07:51:38 12/01/11 - Comment #66508: Someone in this :::link::: says it works better with the 3.0.0-300 kernel. I am going to boot with the other kernel I have installed and see if it makes a difference.

tinypliny writes at 11:10:47 11/30/11 - Comment #66504: Actually, there was a sort of okay alternative. F15. So yes, my ranting is somewhat unwarranted.

tinypliny writes at 11:08:14 11/30/11 - Comment #66503: I get that point and I agree with the coding philosophy. I would feel the same had I been that coder. But I keep wondering about the practical use of writing elegant code when a good chunk of the audience out there has limited use for it, considering they are stuck with the hardware shipped by a mega corporation. I want people to switch to linux, but I can't give them solid reasons and demonstrations to show that its developers are making it user friendly, It's such a pain to have to struggle constantly for trivial things to work properly. You might argue that windows encourages people to click without comprehension. But do we really need this level of comprehension when we are trying to get work basic work done?

Take my example. R won't play well with perl and latex in windows, so I move to debian. Debian-R won't sort things properly, so I move to fedora. fedora won't connect to networks well... Mac won't do ANY of these well. So there is simply no real alternative but to keep being discontented with the state of OS for my computing needs.

Arrgh. rant rant rant that's all I do. I feel like I am 90+ years old now.

uncutsaniflush writes at 10:56:02 11/30/11 - Comment #66502: Lots of Linux developers don't give a shit if propriatary "binary blobs" that are open-soucred don't work with new kernels and modules. (e:paul) could probably explain better than me as to why. But consider this, you wrote an elegant usefull bit of code that works great for it was written for. But it fucks up a wireless card controlled by a mega-corporation. Would you change your code to please the corporation?

tinypliny writes at 10:31:15 11/30/11 - Comment #66500: So I don't get this. They take the driver built by realtek and incorporate it into a kernel module and ship this module with the main kernel, correct?

Why should that result in a drastically different performance than just installing the driver by itself to a kernel that doesn't have the module? What changes during the process of building the kernel module? Am I making sense or is this a completely clueless question? Well, I know it's clueless, but what I want to know is what is actually happening during the integration process to mess it up?

tinypliny writes at 10:23:34 11/30/11 - Comment #66497: % find the kernel in Fedora that your wireless card liked and use it.

I will try that and report back. :)

uncutsaniflush writes at 10:14:43 11/30/11 - Comment #66494: I'm posting from Fedora 16 using wireless. I'm lucky that wireless in Fedora 16 works the same as in Fedora 15.

The sad truth is that for wireless in Linux yes I have done all that shit. And I've been doing wi-fi Linux since about 2002. Newish kernels and kernel modules can be problematic.
My advice is the same, find the kernel in Fedora that your wireless card liked and use it.

Some of the 3.0.x kernels in Debian won't even recognise my card. But Fedora does.

Good Luck.

tinypliny writes at 10:08:08 11/30/11 - Comment #66493: I tested the live fedora 16 for 2 whole days before installing it. At home, it was perfect with the router 2 feet away and the wireless signal strength at maximum. I had no idea network connectivity would be this bad. I didn't think to test the live cd in the airport and coffee house and at work. Don't you think its perhaps a bit too much to ask an average user to test live cds every single place before trusting a distro to do its job? It is painful. :/

Unfortunately, fedora is the best for my purposes too. The whole debian family has a compiled R source that refuses to sort things properly and it seriously affects my data analyses workflow. It's still a very nice distro - much better than many others but wireless connectivity is very important in a laptop for me. That is the basic reason for having a laptop; to be able to take it places and have your work mobile. I am just terribly disappointed that it can't do this simple job of connecting to networks reliably. I don't have any other options in terms of distros. Fedora is the best for my work. I think I am going back to F15 today.

Everything else feels pretty much the same in F16 as F15. There are some cosmetic differences in Gnome 3 shell. The terminal can be made transparent again. But these hardly count as "improvements" in the face of the gaping network bug. If you are using F16 for a desktop with a wired connection, I am sure you will find it nice than F15. I say, go for it.

uncutsaniflush writes at 09:22:13 11/30/11 - Comment #66491: Sorry to hear that Fedora 16 sucks for you. But I am moved to ask, did you actually test a live Fedora 16 on your laptop before you decided to intall it? If you did, and the wireless actually worked, you should check to see what kernel (and modules) the live system was running and compare it to what kernel and modules you are running in your install.

Ironically enough, I was planning to install Fedora 16 on my Zareason box tonight after testing the live image for a while. Afer playing with sundry distros on the box, I have discovered that Fedora is the bestest distro for me. With minimal tweaking, it provides me with just about everything I want in a Linux distro other than a pre-configured E17 environment.

I'll report the results.

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