The stock FC iSCSI initiator is broken. Go figure.

Apparently it’s calls to sysfs don’t work correctly. The problem is that it’s not readily apparent. For instance, you can successfully send a discovery request to the portal and connect to an iSCSI LUN, but commands would fail completely, such as:

iscsiadm –mode session

iscsiadm –mode node -U all

So you can’t view or disconnect active iSCSI connections.

Fortunately, the fix is pretty easy. Download the updated iSCSI source code from open-iscsi.org. The current version is 2.0-870.2. Compiling against kernel 2.6.26.2 worked out flawlessly for me and so far has resolved the issues I found.

FC9 doesn’t include Banshee. Here is my process for installing it.

It integrates with Gnome, of course, so once you meet all the installation dependencies, at least you don’t also have to add a launcher to your Applications menu!

One other side effect of installing this has been a reduction in crashes in Evolution. My guess is that the gtksharp upgrades are responsible.

From the outset,  I’ve been aggravated by the fact that Foresight’s distribution of the Gnome desktop automatically opens Banshee when I load an audio CD.

I figured out how to use the gconftool-2 to prevent that from happening:

gconftool-2 –type boolean –set /desktop/gnome/volume_manager/autoplay_cda “false”

This can be run as an unprivileged user, and writes the data to the following xml schema file so the setting works across reboots.

~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/volume_manager/%gconf.xml

You can check the current settings for the volume_manager – both default and custom with:
gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/volume_manager

I’m controlling the autoformatting in wordpress so that linux commands and especially configure directives show up correctly and can be used in a shell by copying and pasting directly from this blog.

The solution I’ve been using for years is to edit wp-includes/formatting.php and remove the 2nd and 3rd array elements from $static-characters (‘ –‘, ‘–‘,) and $static-replacements (‘ — ‘, ‘–’,)

That should yield lines similar to the following:

./configure –prefix=/usr –sysconfdir=/etc

–mandir=/usr/share/man –infodir=/usr/share/info

–localstatedir=/var

here’s a line that should include an em-dash —

here’s a line with 2 hyphens —

here’s a line with 2 hyphens — surrounded by spaces

Comment found on a Swiss Linux-user’s site:

Linux ist eben nicht kompliziert, es ist nur wählerisch in der Wahl seiner Anwender.

Translation:

Linux is really not complicated, it is just selective in it’s choice of users.