RE: system-config-display
by Albert Wold
It looks like when I run XFree86 as root, it drops its privileges for some reason. If I copy the binary to root's home dir and take off the setuid bit, it runs fine and probes the card. If I then copy the config file to /etc/X11 and restart the system, there are a bunch of "avc: denied" errors for XFree86.log in the syslog when gdm tries to start. Anyone have any ideas?
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From: fedora-test-list-bounces(a)redhat.com on behalf of Albert Wold
Sent: Thu 4/1/2004 11:40 AM
To: fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com
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Subject: system-config-display
I have a brand new system with an 865 video card (I think) and a Dell 19" flat panel. When I installed, I don't remember seeing a section to configure X. When I booted, it tried to start X several times and gave up. After some digging, I found the system-config-display program and ran it. It says this:
* ddcprobe returned bogus values:
ID: None
Name: None
HorizSync: None
VertSync: None
Trying with card: Intel 865
Error, cannot start X server.
So, apparently it doesn't work with this display. I also tried XFree86 -configure which gives me an error saying "unable to locate/open config file: "/root/XF86Config.new"". For now, I'm wondering if anyone knows of an alternate way to manually configure it. I see that there is no xf86config command, which is what I used last time I had to do a manual X config.
-Al
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FC2T2 Rhythmbox load error
by Will H. Backman
[whb@cei3440 whb]$ rpm -q rhythmbox
rhythmbox-0.7.1-2
Error on start:
Failed to create the player. Couldn't initialize scheduler. Did you run
gst-register?
Is this error due to something missing in a %POST script in the rpm?
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20 years, 1 month
Sound Config FC2 T2
by William Sullivan
Whenever I restart my computer my audio doesn't start correctly, if I go
to soundcard detection in system settings and play the test sound my
sound will then work. I was wondering if there was any way I could make
it so my audio works right away without doing the Soundcard detection.
I am running FC2 T2.
The Soundcard Detection reads
Vendor: Cirrus Logic
Model: CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator]
Module: snd-cs46xx
Thanks
20 years, 1 month
Dual boot FC2T2 and WinXP?
by Markku Kolkka
I just noticed that after installing Fedora Core 2 test 2 I can't
boot into Windows XP anymore. The installer detected the Windows
partition, and grub.conf contains the correct entry. This worked
correctly in FC1 and FC2test1, what could be the problem? The
installer complained about partition alignment, is that related?
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20 years, 1 month
system-config-display
by Albert Wold
I have a brand new system with an 865 video card (I think) and a Dell 19" flat panel. When I installed, I don't remember seeing a section to configure X. When I booted, it tried to start X several times and gave up. After some digging, I found the system-config-display program and ran it. It says this:
* ddcprobe returned bogus values:
ID: None
Name: None
HorizSync: None
VertSync: None
Trying with card: Intel 865
Error, cannot start X server.
So, apparently it doesn't work with this display. I also tried XFree86 -configure which gives me an error saying "unable to locate/open config file: "/root/XF86Config.new"". For now, I'm wondering if anyone knows of an alternate way to manually configure it. I see that there is no xf86config command, which is what I used last time I had to do a manual X config.
-Al
20 years, 1 month
Screen Goes Black
by Brandon Petersen
I've installed Fedora Core 2 Test 2 onto a Dell Dimension 2100 (800Mhz
Intel, 196mb Ram). I've been testing things out, submitting bug
reports. But there is one thing I can't seem to figure out and submit a
bug.
Sometimes the screen goes black, and I cannot regain control of it.
Ctrl-Backspace doesn't exit out of X, Ctrl-Alt-# doesn't bring me to a
terminal. It seems to happen randomly, could possibly be from no
activity, but I'm not sure.
I can ssh into the box, but I'm not sure if there is anything I can do
to determine what is going on with the X Server from an ssh session?
Any suggestions on determining what is causing the lockout and blackout
screen from ssh?
Thanks
Brandon Petersen
20 years, 1 month
Yum upgrade from FC1 to FC2.
by Trond Danielsen
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Another test report...
- - Have been running FC1 since it's first release, and have been
"yum-updating" from the development three for a while.
- - Added FC1.91 test release three to yum.conf; no problems!
- - Had to add the selinux-rpms afterward, relabeled the filessystem, and
now FC2test2 is up and running like nothing ever happend.
Bug reports:
- - system-config-... tools don't work... Seems to be a problem with the
superuserprivilegies-gui.
- - clock-applet crashes when trying to open up preferences.
- - firewire not working, unable to load module.
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20 years, 1 month
RE: Another person's experience installing FC2 test 2
by Richard Duncan
Any luck on fixing the freeze at "updating etc/fstab"? I'm getting the
same problem. I first installed FC2T2 (with the boot from FC2T1 trick)
with SELinux enabled, but got way too many error messages on boot (like
some have been getting...audit messages and the such). After setting
selinux=0, enforcing=0, and audit=0 in boot and still no better, I
reinstalled with SELinux disabled. Now I don't get any errors, but I
also don't get past updating fstab. I've checked fstab through Windows
(using Explore2FS), and it looks alright. I don't see any error
messages on boot, so I'm clueless here. Anyone have any suggestions?
Specs:
Abit IS7-E
80 GB WD HDD
ATi Radeon 9600XT
DVD-ROM
CD-RW
Ran RH9, FC1, and FC2T1 without troubles...
>Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:19:11 +0100
>From: "Aled Hughes" <fedora-test-list(a)magra.demon.co.uk>
>Subject: RE: Another person's experience installing FC2 test 2
>To: "'For testers of Fedora Core development releases'"
> <fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>
>Message-ID: <003201c4171a$60285120$0201a8c0(a)magra.demon.co.uk>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
>I too had exactly the same problem with missing inittab and also various
>rc.* scripts. Initially I had this with a rawhide version just prior to
>test2, but after getting test2 and installing onto an empty existing
>reiserfs partition, it still happened. I had SELinux in 'warn' mode.
>When I reinstalled and told it to reformat the root partition as ext3 the
>init problem was resolved. So I concluded the problem is related to using
>reiserfs.
>
>My system still doesn't boot correctly (sticks at "updating etc/fstab"), but
>that's an unrelated issue I need to further investiage.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: fedora-test-list-bounces(a)redhat.com
>[mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces@redhat.com]On Behalf Of shmuel siegel
>Sent: 31 March 2004 03:01
>To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
>Subject: Another person's experience installing FC2 test 2
>
>
>I am running a dual boot Win2k/Fedora system. Originally formatted by
>Win2k for the NTFS and Fat32 partitions and formatted by RH7/8/9 for the
>ext3 and linux swap partitions.
>I got the already known complaints during the install. I couldn't do a
>hard disk install because I didn't have a driver. The CDROM install
>warned about partition alignment problems.
>I didn't upgrade my FC1 system but rather installed FC2 to an existing
>ext3 partition which I bravely reformatted as reiserfs. The installation
>went smoothly and rapidly.
>Rebooting, I found to my annoyance, that the boot loader was overridden
>and now pointed to somewhere that didn't have my fc1 configuration, thus
>forcing me to do some grub.conf editting. But more seriously, with
>selinux turned on, I couldn't start. init did not have the proper
>permissions. Rebooting with selinux turned off, didn't help since there
>was no inittab. Copying the inittab from fc1 didn't help since there was
>no rc.d/rc.
>How should I proceed?
>
>
>
>
20 years, 1 month
tuxracer and chromium locks X
by John R. Munn
I experienced tuxracer and Critical Mass seeming to lock up X also (blank
screen and have to do a hard reboot). What I found was that in a reboot after
an update (FC2 Test1) that X now mis-identified my monitor. When I corrected
this, these games ran fine again. One of the problems is that these games
take exclusive use of the mouse and keyboard so when you have the blank
screen you can't see to get out of them and can't even use ctrl-alt-backspace
or ctrl-alt-del.
So, try checking your monitor setting for X.
--
John R. Munn
Programmer/Analyst
Preferred Employers Group, Inc.
20 years, 1 month
Re: RE: Today's dependency problems
by M Galvin
I get these failures when trying to update libdv*
Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
dvgrab 1.5-1 requires libdv.so.2
pwlib 1.6.3-2 requires libdv.so.2
I also continue to get errors about xemacs when trying to update nvi* and Canna(although i don't need this one).
-------------------------
M Galvin
Lead Programmer
Simplified Complexity
http://www.simplifiedcomplexity.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Troy Carpenter <troy(a)carpenter.cx>
Date: Thursday, April 1, 2004 11:58 am
Subject: RE: Today's dependency problems
> Correction, the headers today specify libpcap-0.8.3-2 (not 0.8.2-2).
>
> Troy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Troy Carpenter
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 11:53 AM
> To: 'fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com'
> Subject: Re: Today's dependency problems
>
>
> I noticed that as of this morning (4/1/04) that the only problem was
> with libpcap and ethereal. All the other problems (like you said)
> appear to be fixed.
>
> The libpcap in the headers shows 0.8.2-2, but 0.8.2-1 was still on the
> mirror when I tried. When there are problems like that, I usually
> justwait and they eventually work out.
>
> I use yum instead of up2date, but usually if one breaks the other
> breakstoo, I've noticed. Yum still works for me, but:
>
> [root@sol cgi-bin]# up2date -l
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: Fedora-Core-Live... Fetching rpm
> headers... exploded! Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1267, in ?
> sys.exit(main() or 0)
> File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 797, in main
> fullUpdate, dryRun=options.dry_run))
> File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1141, in batchRun
> batch.run()
> File "up2dateBatch.py", line 62, in run
> File "up2dateBatch.py", line 108, in __findPackagesToUpdate
> File "packageList.py", line 580, in getPackagesToInstall
> File "packageList.py", line 609, in __skipPackages
> File "packageList.py", line 630, in __skipFiles
> File "packageList.py", line 669, in buildHeaderList
> File "headers.py", line 37, in __getitem__
> File "headers.py", line 42, in __retrievePackage
> File "rpcServer.py", line 112, in doCall
> File "repoDirector.py", line 31, in getHeader
> File "rpmSource.py", line 210, in getHeader
> File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/yumRepo.py", line
> 101, in getHeader
> rpmSourceUtils.saveHeader(hdr)
> File "rpmSourceUtils.py", line 24, in saveHeader
> TypeError: unsubscriptable object
>
> Whereas:
> [root@sol cgi-bin]# yum check-update
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Test Linux 2.6-test prerelease kernels for Fedora Core
> Server: Fedora Core 1.91 - Development Tree
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Name Arch Version
> Repo----------------------------------------------------------------
> --------
> --------
> libpcap i386 14:0.8.3-2
> development
>
>
> Also, RPM didn't give me the problems listed by someone else either:
> [root@sol cgi-bin]# rpm -q rpm rpm-4.3.1-0.1 [root@sol cgi-bin]#
> rpm -qi
> rpm
> Name : rpm Relocations: (not
> relocatable)
> Version : 4.3.1 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
> Release : 0.1 Build Date: Wed 31 Mar
> 200412:29:39 PM EST
> Install Date: Thu 01 Apr 2004 10:07:27 AM EST Build Host:
> tweety.devel.redhat.com
> Group : System Environment/Base Source RPM:
> rpm-4.3.1-0.1.src.rpm
> Size : 5055291 License: GPL
> Signature : (none)
> Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
> Summary : The RPM package management system.
> Description :
> The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven
> packagemanagement system capable of installing, uninstalling,
> verifying,querying, and updating software packages. Each software
> package consists
> of an archive of files along with information about the package
> like its
> version, a description, etc.
>
>
> Troy Carpenter
> troy(a)carpenter.cx
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 17:17:27 +0200
> From: shmuel siegel <fedora(a)shmuelhome.mine.nu>
> Subject: RE: fedora-test-list Digest, Vol 1, Issue 729
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> <fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <1080832647.4413.3.camel(a)shmuelhome.mine.nu>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> It works now without excluding gimp or libdv, but when I did it only,
> the duke mirror was up to date. But maybe be careful. It also updated
> rpm and up2date doesn't work anymore so don't update rpm.
>
>
> On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 16:35, Troy Carpenter wrote:
> > The version I currently have is the one you listed (gtkam-0.1.10-
> 2.1).>
> > In either case, I still had to --nodeps gimp to get things to work.
> >
> > Troy
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:18:17 +0200
> > From: Leonard den Ottolander <leonard(a)den.ottolander.nl>
> > Subject:
> > To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> > <fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>
> > Message-ID: <1080753497.4755.45.camel(a)athlon.localdomain>
> > Content-Type: text/plain
> >
> > Hi Troy,
> >
> > > Actually, the problem is that the new gimp package (gimp-2.0.0-5)
> > > deletes that library and replaces it:
> > >
> > > # rpm -ql gimp | grep libgimp
> > > /usr/lib/libgimp-2.0.so.0
> >
> > > So the dependency is that libgimp-1.3.so.26 is being removed
> and
> > > will
> > > no longer be available, not that it is currently not available.
> >
> > What version of gtkam is that? gtkam-0.1.10-2.1 only Requires
> gimp >=
> > 1.2. That dependency should be satisfied by libgimp-2.0.so ...
> >
> > Leonard.
> >
> > --
> > mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research
> >
>
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