Re: kde-4.2
by LPM
I saw the stretched clock and system tray problem on a client's computer that I worked on recently. He had upgraded to F10 from F9 and had all the problems listed in this thread plus others. His Kickoff was on his desktop so it had to be moved to the panel. His task manager was missing and that allowed the clock and system tray to stretch to fill the panel. Check that you have the task manager widget on your panel, and it fills the available space.
Good Luck,
Lloyd
15 years, 3 months
rythmbox not seeing cdrom
by Martín Marqués
A few weeks ago I started experiencing problems with sound (partially
solved) and rythmbox not seeing the cdrom when it goes in.
Am I the only one experiencing this rythmbox-cdrom problem? Havn't
seen any threads on the list with this subject.
--
Martín Marqués
select 'martin.marques' || '@' || 'gmail.com'
DBA, Programador, Administrador
15 years, 3 months
Re: kde-4.2
by LPM
OOPS, sorry for the unwrapped line. I forgot this editor does not place
new lines in autowrap.
Lloyd
15 years, 3 months
Re:rythmbox not seeing cdrom(2)
by DB
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> A few weeks ago I started experiencing problems with sound (partially
> solved) and rythmbox not seeing the cdrom when it goes in.
>
> Am I the only one experiencing this rythmbox-cdrom problem? Havn't
> seen any threads on the list with this subject.
>
>
>
Hi Martin,
Yup, I have the same problem with Amarok - it did play one CD for me
last week when I first installed it, but now all it finds is a couple of
clips (that I didn't know I'd made) which it calls my local collection.
(and identifies them as something totally unrelated to the actual music.)
I sent the following mail to the list:
***********************************************************
Evening All,
Since my preupgrade from F9 to F10, it seems I cannot see my CD/DVD
players with Dolphin (nor Krusader). Have I killed something else while
trying to get video & sound working with Skype? Or has something else
been moved to a new package & I've missed it??
Thanks all
Dave
PS I won't get started on the "joys" of trying to get sounds working......
uname -ar
Linux Fedora-Blue 2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Wed Feb 11
23:58:12 EST 2009 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
*********************************************************
Received the following reply from Paul & replied back:
*********************************************************
Do you mean you can't see the actual device files (/dev/...) or you
can't play the media? If you can't see the files, check if they still
exist ('ls /dev/...' from the command line). If you can't play the
media, you'll need to say how you used to do it. Dolphin doesn't play
media itself, it uses Kaffeine (or VLC, or dragon, or mplayer, or ...)
poc
Hi POC,
Neither Dolphin nor Krusader would list or show an icon of anything
outside "Home" or "Root";
I found autofs had deinstalled during the upgrade so reinstalled that &
my external HDD came back.
Rythmbox one time showed the tracklist, but wouldn't play anything,
alsomixer wuld show lots of controls & freeze with nearly 100% CPU usage;
Pulsaudio didn't seem to do anything, so (following the comments in the
forum) I deleted PA,
but couldn't take out some of the sub utilis of PA without yum wanting
to deinstall everything as nmothing was used by anything else.....
So loaded amarok & music plays automatically but the icons in "places"
for the CD/DVD drives are still missing.
The drives show up however in HWLister. /dev shows entries for cdrom &
cdrom1 & cdrw, dvd, dvd1 & dvdrw.
????????????
Dave
*******************************************************************
I've just rechecked /dev, and while I have the entries quoted above for
the block devices, there's no folder entry like there is for disks.
It's a RRPITA because I can't even add the devices to "places" in
Dolphin, so I cannot access data discs......
Dave
OK... After sending the message, I went back & did an ls -l on /dev
(rather than just looking at it with Dolphin. Here's what I get:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2009-03-02 10:55 /dev/cdrom -> sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2009-03-02 10:55 /dev/cdrom1 -> sr1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2009-03-02 10:55 /dev/cdrw -> sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2009-03-02 10:55 /dev/dvd -> sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2009-03-02 10:55 /dev/dvd1 -> sr1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2009-03-02 10:55 /dev/dvdrw ->
sr0
brw-rw----+ 1 root disk 11, 0 2009-03-02 10:55 /dev/sr0
brw-rw----+ 1 root disk 11, 1 2009-03-02 10:55 /dev/sr1
I also notice I have a device mapper, although I was sure (!!) I had
turned it off, not having any Raid type devices.....
/dev/mapper:
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 63 2009-03-02 10:55 control
Dave
15 years, 3 months
kde-4.2
by Gene Heskett
Greetings;
I discovered about 2 hours ago that the updates repo in yum.repos.d was not
enabled by the f10 upgrade, so I have been trying to pull in some of the
updates, but because of clashes I had to remove of some 4.1.2 stuff.
And I have now lost the kde menu at the left end of the taskbar. If and when
I get it all updated, will that come back on an x restart? Or has some new
thingy replaced it?
FWIW, Akonadi refuses to start, and when attempting to read the rest of the
error list it shrinks to about half height for each click on the scroll bar
until it all goes away, so I still don't have a good idea as to what its
missing.
Thanks.
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Avoid gunfire in the bathroom tonight.
15 years, 3 months
logwatch reports kernel errors present
by Steve Blackwell
Every time I boot my machine I get a message like this in logwatch
WARNING: Kernel Errors Present
ACPI Error (nseval-0159): I ...: 12 Time(s)
$ uname -r
2.6.27.15-78.2.23.fc9.x86_64
I don't see anything in /var/log/messages and in /var/log/dmesg I see:
ACPI Error (nseval-0159): Insufficient arguments - method [_OSC] needs 5, found 4 [20080609]
ie, the same error. Google returned a few hits but nothing that explained what this meant. I didn't find anything in redhat bugzilla.
So, what does it mean? Is it important?
Thanks,
Steve.
15 years, 3 months
problem getting Fritz WLAN USB running in Fedora 9 x86_64
by Robert Cates
Hi all,
I've been doing a lot of searching the net, including this list, for a
solution to my problem:
I've got Fedora 9 x86_64 running (nicely) with all current updates up to
now, but I just cannot get my Fritz WLAN USB adaptor (drivers)
installed. For one thing, since compiling the source code that I got
from the AVM company web site does not work, I wanted to resort to
installing the ndiswrapper package, but that is not found/available
(from Fedora at least).
Does anybody know what I need to either be able to successfully compile
the source code under x86_64, or to get this ndiswrapper package
installed? Also, if I go with the ndiswrapper solution would I need to
use the XP or Vista 64-bit drivers, or the regular 32-bit?
The device monitor recognizes it when plugged in and lsusb gives this:
# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 057c:62ff AVM GmbH WLAN USB v1.1 [no firmware]
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 045e:0734 Microsoft Corp.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
and compiling the source code gives this:
[... fritz]# ll
total 156
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 214 2007-07-05 15:00 config-wpa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 215 2007-07-05 15:00 config-wpa2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 104 2007-07-05 15:00 install
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-07-05 15:00 lib
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64210 2007-07-05 15:00 Liesmich.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62096 2007-07-05 15:00 Readme.html
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-07-05 15:00 src
[... fritz]# ./install
make: Entering directory `/root/Download/fritz/src'
rm -f main.o driver.o tools.o lib.o buffers.o wext.o
rm -f fwlanusb.o fwlanusb.ko
make: Leaving directory `/root/Download/fritz/src'
make: Entering directory `/root/Download/fritz/src'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.27.15-78.2.23.fc9.x86_64/build
SUBDIRS=/root/Download/fritz/src modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.27.15-78.2.23.fc9.x86_64'
CC [M] /root/Download/fritz/src/main.o
In file included from /root/Download/fritz/src/tools.h:31,
from /root/Download/fritz/src/main.c:32:
/root/Download/fritz/src/defs.h:63: error: redefinition of typedef
‘uintptr_t’
include/linux/types.h:40: error: previous declaration of ‘uintptr_t’ was
here
make[2]: *** [/root/Download/fritz/src/main.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/root/Download/fritz/src] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.27.15-78.2.23.fc9.x86_64'
make: *** [fwlanusb.o] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/root/Download/fritz/src'
make: Entering directory `/root/Download/fritz/src'
cp: cannot stat `fwlanusb.ko': No such file or directory
make: *** [install] Error 1
make: Leaving directory `/root/Download/fritz/src'
[... fritz]#
Thanks in advance for your help!
Robert
15 years, 3 months
Installing nVidia drivers on FC10
by Dave Bolt IT Solutions
I have a test box which has been showing some corruption of the display from time to time.
Since it doesn't matter if I play, I thought I would try installing the latest support for the graphics card from the nVidia website.
The package is a self-extracting archive, which checks for the kernel support, then eventually decides that I need to have the specific kernel support built for my particular platform, which is fine.
I finally installed all the headers and compiler that it asked for, and it goes ahead and attempts to build the package.
The attached file is a copy of the build log.
Bottom line, Build fails.
What I think I understand so far is that the semaphore.h header file is missing, odd since I expect it as a standard header. This causes an error in the compile.
Next, there are a couple of calls to smp_call_function which cause compile errors because of a parameter mismatch.
I assume, the call is to a function declared in semaphore.h
Since there are now three errors in total, the installer aborts.
So, I think the first big question is where is the semaphore.h header file?
I have only found an asm directory in /usr/lib/perl5 tree.
I did find an archive file containing a semaphore.h file. The archive is semaphore.h.0p.gz in /usr/share/man/man0p but the contained file does not have the definition of smp_call_function.
Getting confused at this point :)
Any help?
Thanks
Dave
15 years, 3 months
Running Smart Package manager as non-root
by Chris Kottaridis
I want to run the smart package manager on my fedora machine, but I
don't want it to manage the system wide RPM's, but just some user
specific RPMs. I want a typical user to be able to manage his own set of
RPMs independently of the system management.
I am running Fedora Core 8 and when I download the smart package I get
version 1.1.
I've discovered a few things. I go to the /usr/lib/smart/distro.py file
and add these two lines:
if not sysconf.getReadOnly():
if not sysconf.has("channels"):
+ sysconf.set("rpm-root","/opt/myprojects")
+ sysconf.set("detect-sys-channels", False)
sysconf.set(("channels", "rpm-db"),
{"alias": "rpm-db",
"type": "rpm-sys",
"name": "RPM Database"})
When I do this and bring up "smart-root --gui" I provide root's password
and everything does what I want which will take any RPM I ask smart to
load and load it under /opt/myprojects and keeps the RPM database in
the /opt/myprojects/var/lib/rpm. SO, the RPM database is separate from
the system.
Now if I run just "smart --gui" I get in some read-only mode that won't
let me install anything. It seems if smart's datadir is not writable
then you get in this read-only mode.
So, I start over by doing this:
# rm -rf /opt/myprojects/*
# chown myuser:myuser /opt/myprojects
edit
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/smart/const.py
change the DATADIR to a file I have write permissions on
DISTROFILE = "/usr/lib/smart/distro.py"
PLUGINSDIR = "/usr/lib/smart/plugins/"
+ DATADIR = "/opt/myproject/var/lib/smart/"
USERDATADIR = "~/.smart/"
CONFFILE = "config"
Now I run "smart --gui" as me and it seems to initialize the rpm
database under /opt/myproject OK. But, when I try to actually install an
RPM I get permission denied errors. It seems when I am not root it wants
to try and load the RPMs into /, which I don't have permissions for,
instead of /opt/myproject, which I do have permissions for. So, it seems
weird that it manages the RPM database under /opt/myproject, but it
doesn't want to install the packages under /opt/myproject.
How do I get smart to manage it's RPMs in a different DB then the system
wide one and also get it to load all RPMs into a predetermined
directory, other then "/", and do all of this as a normal, non-root,
user ?
Thanks
Chris Kottaridis
15 years, 3 months
