Diskless FC9 workstations
by Joseph L. Casale
I have a need to boot several diskless workstations with fc9. I was looking at ltsp but I
am not convinced that is a workable solution as the server I intend to use is rhel5.1 and
so the presented environment would then end up being a rhel desktop which isn't what I am
after.
Anyone got any suggestions/experience in doing this? The key being the workstations
must be completely diskless.
Thanks!
jlc
16 years
Ethernet Interface issues in FC9
by Joseph L. Casale
With networkmangler enabled, the static ip setup during install is ignored and eth0
dynamically acquires an ip. With networkmangler disabled, even though eth0 is set
to start on boot, it doesn't, so once I issue an #ifup eth0, it starts and uses it correct static ip.
What have I missed with FC9, I didn't notice this behavior in 8?
Thanks!
jlc
16 years
Rhythmbox and Exaile Silent
by das
Hello Friends
After last night's update, both on the laptop and the desktop Rhythmbox
and Exaile on Fedora 9 can't play audio anymore. And on both the
machines 'mplayer' (compiled) can play them.
When run from a terminal, Rhythmbox is giving this message:
<<
(rhythmbox:3211): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Unable to grab media player
keys: Method "GrabMediaPlayerKeys" with signature "su" on interface
"org.gnome.SettingsDaemon" doesn't exist
>>
And Exaile is giving this:
<<
Exaile 0.2.13
which: no serpentine in (/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/lib/ccache:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/dd/bin)
which: no brasero in (/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/lib/ccache:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/dd/bin)
which: no k3b in (/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/lib/ccache:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/dd/bin)
A supported CD burning program was not found in $PATH, disabling burning capabilities.
-----------------------
__use_gnome ( /usr/lib/exaile/xl/xlmisc.py @ 207):
-----------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/exaile/xl/xlmisc.py", line 230, in __use_gnome
gnome.GrabMediaPlayerKeys(self.application, 0)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 68, in __call__
return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__
**keywords)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 607, in call_blocking
message, timeout)
DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "GrabMediaPlayerKeys" with signature "si" on interface "org.gnome.SettingsDaemon" doesn't exist
>>
The messages are identical on both the machines. On both the machines
Gnome is there, but, Xfce was the running desktop when it happened. And
on the laptop I tried it by starx-ing into Gnome too, with the same
result. Tried 'yum erase' and 'yum install' once again. No results.
Any help anyone? Or, it is a temporary thing, likely to get corrected
in some coming update?
--
das
ddts.randomink.org
16 years
Re: Mono sound only, PulseAudio and Fedora 9... or "where's system-config-sound?"
by Antti Aspinen
On Sat, 31 May 2008 19:42:59 -0400 Ric Moore wrote:
> how about changing the order of the soundcard with the webcam ? Just
an
> edit of /etc/modprobe.conf ought to set it straight. The webcam is
mono,
> right? But since it is loaded first, then I would think that it is the
> default sound device, being pointed to by such things as OSS
> as /dev/snd. It's a thought, trouble shooting with a shotgun. Ric
Sorry for being inexperienced with Fedora configs but how I do that?
Ensuring that Juli@ driver modules are loaded first is in practice
difficult to achieve. Thanks to always so exciting Udev.
By the way /etc/modprobe.conf is an empty file. All the stuff is
in /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf.dist and most of it don't make any
sense. At least to me anyway. Where's /etc/modprobe.d/alsa for example?
I know that in newer Alsa I might be able to change the order of the
cards by issuing index for them. Like shown in here:
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/MultipleCards#How_to_choose_a_particula...
Unfortunantely that method doesn't seem to work in Fedora 9 thanks to
PulseAudio and very different alike configs.
How to change order of the sound cards now because in F9
system-config-sound has been removed? This is just the thing I have been
asking since the first message with this topic.
Thanks
--
Antti Aspinen <antti.aspinen(a)phnet.fi>
16 years
Amazon MP3 Downloader
by Chris
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Has anyone been able to get the Fedora 8 MP3 downloader at Amazon to
work with F9? If so, please let me know how you did this.
Here's this link if you need it.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/dmusic/help/amd.html/ref=sv_dmusic_3
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Best regards,
Chris
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16 years
updating USB flash drive MBR to allow boot
by Javier Perez
Hi
I hae a Kingston Data Traveller USB flash drive (8GB) which for some reason
I cannot make a bootable USB drive.
Googling around I came up with this information:
-Some USB flash drives are notorious for having problems with corrupted
master boot records.....
Credit goes to BHSPitMonkey for pointing out this fix. The troubled drive
encountered
was a Kingston Data Traveler 2GB unit-
I think this makes my unit highly suspect.
The solution in Ubuntu was
we will install the mbr package and use it to create the new mbr on the USB
flash drive
1. Type *sudo apt-get install mbr*
2. Type *fdisk -l* to find out which device is your flash drive
3. Type *install-mbr /dev/sdx* (replacing x with your flash device)
My question is how do we do this with Fedora?
I already tried out the install-live-to-usb thingy and it did not work.
In fact the section in installing the mbr is blank at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo
Thanks
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16 years
Why has yum behavior changed in F9?
by Paolo Galtieri
Today I installed F9 on an x86_64 laptop which previously was running F8
and so far I find F9 to be a regression from F8. In F8 when I ran:
yum -y install gtk2
it would install both the i386 version and the x86_64 version of the
package. In F9 it only installs the x86_64 version, I have to explicitly
install the i386 version. Why the regression?
The reason I see this as a problem is if you download the Adobe acrobat
reader package for Linux from Adobe it is built for i386 and
consequently will not install unless you install the required i386
packages.
Furthermore:
[root@localhost ~]# yum list all gtk+
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Available Packages
gtk+.i386 1:1.2.10-61.fc9
fedora
gtk+.x86_64 1:1.2.10-61.fc9
fedora
shows both the i386 and the x86_64 versions, but:
yum -y install "gtk+*"
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package gtk+-devel.x86_64 1:1.2.10-61.fc9 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: glib-devel for package: gtk+-devel
---> Package gtk+extra-devel.x86_64 0:2.1.1-8.fc9 set to be updated
---> Package gtk+extra.x86_64 0:2.1.1-8.fc9 set to be updated
---> Package gtk+.x86_64 1:1.2.10-61.fc9 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libgmodule-1.2.so.0()(64bit) for package: gtk+
--> Processing Dependency: libglib-1.2.so.0()(64bit) for package: gtk+
--> Running transaction check
---> Package glib.x86_64 1:1.2.10-29.fc9 set to be updated
---> Package glib-devel.x86_64 1:1.2.10-29.fc9 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
gtk+ x86_64 1:1.2.10-61.fc9 fedora 957 k
gtk+-devel x86_64 1:1.2.10-61.fc9 fedora 355 k
gtk+extra x86_64 2.1.1-8.fc9 fedora 335 k
gtk+extra-devel x86_64 2.1.1-8.fc9 fedora 735 k
Installing for dependencies:
glib x86_64 1:1.2.10-29.fc9 fedora
146 k
glib-devel x86_64 1:1.2.10-29.fc9 fedora 39 k
Only installed the x86_64 packages, when I would have expected, via the
globbing syntax, that yum would have installed all packages matching gtk+.
So what's going on and how do I force yum to always install both the
i386 and x86_64 versions of a package?
Paolo
16 years
tried out akmod-nvidia...
by Tom Horsley
...and it does indeed seem to correctly build a
working nvidia kernel module at boot time, but
I did notice this system startup ordering bug
I submitted to livna:
http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1995
at least it seems like an ordering problem to me :-).
Don't know if there is any weird interaction with
the new startup script mechanism also involved in this.
(This was on fedora 9).
16 years
No status messages on restart
by Jim Dever
For some reason whenever I restart Fedora 9 I don't get the normal
status messages during shutdown that I got with F8. I get the standard
runlevel 3 login screen. It pauses and finally says "Restarting..." and
restarts.
A few times after I first installed it (clean install) it gave a quick
message that I never could quite read about "not being able to connect
to system message bus" but unfortunately I haven't been able to see this
message. Is it logged somewhere?
Any help would be appreciated.
--
Jim
16 years
