Re: Fedora(rawhide) and XFCE 4.4 beta 2
by Paul Michael Reilly
Kevin Fenzi wrote:
...
> You must currently remove the old plugins.
> I am talking with the maintainer of the plugins to try and get some
> new versions in my repo so the update works fine. That will of course
> get addressed before anything goes into the main devel repo.
Any progress on this front?
I recently had cause to start carting my laptop around much more
frequently than I had been up to that point (my laptop had been pretty
much a desktop system for all intents and purposes). And I quickly
found that suspend/resume was mia for Xfce. I have no idea what kind of
support exists in Xfce44 for laptop suspend/resume but I now know that
Gnome suspect/resume support (in the soon to be FC6 distro) is terrific.
Of course then I had to wrestle with Gnome and suspend/resume and a
wealth of "plugin" features but no B5 theme and no main/system context
menu vs Xfce with B5 and great menus and just a nice feel but no
suspend/resume and no plugins. It was a hard and raucous battle but
Xfce finally won out. :-) Life will sure be a lot better when plugins
are available, not to mentions suspend/resume.
-pmr
17 years, 7 months
how to set lower resolution in fc6t3 xorg?
by Marius Andreiana
Hi,
FC6t3's xorg.conf does't have anymore the Modes "1024x768" "800x600"...
line anymore. I've tried adding it but it doesn't recognize the option
(in Screen section).
How to set a lower resolution than the default? (don't want to use
Desktop preferences, which takes effect only after user logs in).
system-config-display offers a choice of "1024x768" or "800x600", I
guess from the commented line in xorg.conf. I removed the line but it
still doesn't change anything.
Thanks,
--
Marius Andreiana
17 years, 7 months
keyboard settings unstable in fc6t3++
by William John Murray
Hello all,
My keyboard is behaving very weirdly today. I have a UK
keyboard, with a @ near
return and a " being shift-2.
however, the effect of the buttons is reversed today.
If I look in system->Administration->Keyboard it has a list of
keyboards, and UK is currently
selected. If I click on 'UK' all is OK again - the keyboard instantly
operates correctly. Then a while
later, not sure how long (maybe logout??) it goes wrong.
I update frequently, but I have no idea which rpm may have caused
this. I know it doesn't
come ne into the usual class of 'fc6 blockers' but it seems pretty
serious to me...
Bill
17 years, 7 months
automount and NIS maps
by Orion Poplawski
Has anyone gotten automount to work with NIS maps in FC6T3+, or am I
just being brain dead? Are there release notes about changes? My old
FC5 configuration does not work....
--
Orion Poplawski
System Administrator 303-415-9701 x222
NWRA/CoRA Division FAX: 303-415-9702
3380 Mitchell Lane orion(a)cora.nwra.com
Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.cora.nwra.com
17 years, 7 months
Fedora Artwork = Staring Into The Ether
by Benjy Grogan
Hello,
I don't normally criticize art. I understand that a lot of work goes
into it and it's a mysterious process that takes a lot of guesswork
but I'm completely baffled by the choice of artwork in FC6T3 so I must
criticize. It's so dark that you can't see the highlights in grub,
and you can hardly see where those spirals begin and end. You're left
staring into an ether, wondering where the cathode ray is right now.
It's depressing. Ubuntu and OpenSuse, and FC5 have joyous themes.
What happened?
Benjy
17 years, 7 months
Help with RPM rebuilddb
by Oldman
Hello all
After updating this morning, I checked the availability of orca with
a yum list updates. For some reason Yum hung and 1/2 hour later it was
still running with no progress being reported at the terminal.
I was able to kill the process (holding my breath and crossing the
fingers) by logging in as root at a tty and issuing the appropriate
commands. Thought I was good to go until I performed the yum update of
orca and though it did update, it immediately gave me 10 pages of
garbage on the screen, followed by some error messages:
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30977) from db->sync: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run
database recovery
I attempted to `rpm --rebuilddb` but received:
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30977) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error,
run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30977)
I got similar errors with --initdb (as expected, but I had to try)
I googled the error messages and got (as expected) a similar account
on suse, but the suggestions offered, included the use of commands I am
unfamiliar with.
Any ideas of a safe way to get rpm and yum working again?
Scott
17 years, 7 months
FC6T3: mcstransd daemon acting up
by Benjy Grogan
Hello,
Boot up is taking forever. About 3-4 minutes. Everything is fine
afterwards but here is some of what I'm seeing in /var/log/messages:
Sep 23 09:17:46 localhost gpm[2378]: *** info [startup.c(95)]:
Sep 23 09:17:46 localhost gpm[2378]: Started gpm successfully. Entered
daemon mode.
Sep 23 09:17:46 localhost mcstransd: Failed to get context of client
process (pid=2387)
Sep 23 09:17:47 localhost mcstransd: Servicing of request failed for fd (5)
Sep 23 09:17:47 localhost mcstransd: Failed to get context of client
process (pid=2387)
Sep 23 09:17:47 localhost mcstransd: Servicing of request failed for fd (5)
Sep 23 09:17:47 localhost mcstransd: Failed to get context of client
process (pid=2387)
Sep 23 09:17:47 localhost mcstransd: Servicing of request failed for fd (5)
Sep 23 09:17:47 localhost mcstransd: Failed to get context of client
process (pid=2387)
Sep 23 09:17:47 localhost mcstransd: Servicing of request failed for fd (5)
Sep 23 09:17:47 localhost mcstransd: Failed to get context of client
process (pid=2387)
Sep 23 09:17:47 localhost mcstransd: Servicing of request failed for fd (5)
Sep 23 09:17:47 localhost mcstransd: Failed to get context of client
process (pid=2387)
Sep 23 09:17:47 localhost mcstransd: Servicing of request failed for fd (5)
Sep 23 09:17:47 localhost kernel: audit(1159017466.994:4): avc:
denied { search } for pid=2110 comm="mcstransd" name="2387" dev=proc
ino=156434434 scontext=system_u:system_r:setrans_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:system_r:crond_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tclass=dir
Sep 23 09:17:47 localhost kernel: audit(1159017466.994:5): avc:
denied { search } for pid=2110 comm="mcstransd" name="2387" dev=proc
ino=156434434 scontext=system_u:system_r:setrans_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:system_r:crond_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tclass=dir
Sep 23 09:17:47 localhost kernel: audit(1159017467.030:6): avc:
denied { search } for pid=2110 comm="mcstransd" name="2387" dev=proc
ino=156434434 scontext=system_u:system_r:setrans_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:system_r:crond_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tclass=dir
Sep 23 09:17:47 localhost kernel: audit(1159017467.034:7): avc:
denied { search } for pid=2110 comm="mcstransd" name="2387" dev=proc
ino=156434434 scontext=system_u:system_r:setrans_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:system_r:crond_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tclass=dir
Sep 23 09:17:47 localhost kernel: audit(1159017467.034:8): avc:
denied { search } for pid=2110 comm="mcstransd" name="2387" dev=proc
ino=156434434 scontext=system_u:system_r:setrans_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:system_r:crond_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tclass=dir
Sep 23 09:17:47 localhost mcstransd: Failed to get context of client
process (pid=2387)
Sep 23 09:17:47 localhost kernel: audit(1159017467.034:9): avc:
denied { search } for pid=2110 comm="mcstransd" name="2387" dev=proc
ino=156434434 scontext=system_u:system_r:setrans_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:system_r:crond_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tclass=dir
Sep 23 09:17:47 localhost mcstransd: Servicing of request failed for fd (5)
Sep 23 09:17:47 localhost kernel: audit(1159017467.066:10): avc:
denied { search } for pid=2110 comm="mcstransd" name="2387" dev=proc
ino=156434434 scontext=system_u:system_r:setrans_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:system_r:crond_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tclass=dir
I get a lot of that. Am I the only one seeing this SELinux noise? It
makes boot up and shutdown length processes.
Benjy
17 years, 7 months
Suspend works in 2.6.18 but sound fails at resume.
by Stanton P. McIntosh
I am running FC6T3 with the following response to uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-1.2689.fc6 #1 SMP Thu Sep 21 21:04:11 EDT
2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux. Suspend did not work under 2.6.17 on my
machine. In fact it required messy reboots that caused BIOS problems. I'm
happy that Suspend works under 2.6.18 as well as it does. When I resume from
suspend I have no sound. A simple reboot cures the problem.
I would prefer that the suspend option on the menus at "f" would require a
yes or no or that it be put under shutdown along with
hibernate/restart/cancel/shutdown. Occasionally I accidentally click it when
I'm trying to move up the menu tree. If that would not be agreeable, I would
like a menu option to disable/remove it from the menu. I don't suspend my
computer as it runs FAH (fold at home) from the time it starts in the
morning until it is shutdown in the evening.
System info = AsRock 939 Dual Sata II, AMD 939 X2 3800+.
17 years, 7 months
rawhide report: 20060922 changes
by Build System
New package gnome-mag
GNOME Magnifier
Updated Packages:
SysVinit-2.86-12
----------------
* Thu Sep 21 2006 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - 2.86-12
- set controlling tty for /etc/rc so that ctrl-c can be passed to hung
services (#184340)
authconfig-5.3.8-1
------------------
* Thu Sep 21 2006 Tomas Mraz <tmraz(a)redhat.com> - 5.3.8-1
- move options to another tab to fit on 800x600 screen (#207357)
eclipse-changelog-2.3.1-1.fc6
-----------------------------
* Mon Sep 18 2006 Kyu Lee <klee(a)redhat.com> 2.3.1-1
- Move from releng style build to 'package build' builds.
- Import 2.3.1 - has improved error handling.
* Thu Sep 14 2006 Kyu Lee <klee(a)redhat.com> 2.3.0-1
- Import version 2.3.0 that fixes keybinding issue and version
number issue.
evolution-data-server-1.8.0-9.fc6
---------------------------------
* Thu Sep 21 2006 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 1.8.0-9.fc6
- Revise patch for RH bug #198935 (fix a crash reported in bug #207446).
fedora-logos-1.1.55-1.fc6
-------------------------
* Thu Sep 21 2006 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.55-1
- Final update for FC6 graphics
gcc-4.1.1-24
------------
* Wed Sep 20 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 4.1.1-24
- update from gcc-4_1-branch (-r117000:117069)
- PRs fortran/21918, fortran/28526, fortran/28817, fortran/29060,
fortran/29101, java/28754, java/28892, java/29013,
middle-end/27226, middle-end/4520, tree-optimization/28900
- fix java.utils.logging.Logger (Mark Wielaard, #207111)
- fix gnu.javax.net.ssl.provider.SSLSocket (Tom Tromey, #206904)
- add support for Fortran OpenMP conditional inclusion (PR fortran/29097)
- add some -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE compile time strncat buffer overflow checks
grub-0.97-12
------------
* Thu Sep 21 2006 Peter Jones <pjones(a)redhat.com> - 0.97-12
- Reenable patch 505, which fixes #116311
initscripts-8.42-1
------------------
* Thu Sep 21 2006 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 8.42-1
- run rc.sysinit, /etc/rc in monitor mode (part of #184340)
- use a better check for 'native' services (#190989, #110761, adapted
from <matthias(a)rpmforge.net>)
kernel-2.6.18-1.2689.fc6
------------------------
* Thu Sep 21 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- reiserfs: make sure all dentry refs are released before
calling kill_block_super
- Fix up some compile warnings
* Thu Sep 21 2006 Mike Christie <mchristie(a)redhat.com>
- clean up spec file.
* Thu Sep 21 2006 Mike Christie <mchristie(a)redhat.com>
- drop 2.6.18-rc iscsi patch for rebase
kudzu-1.2.56-1
--------------
* Thu Sep 21 2006 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.56-1
- hack: for some ids, return both ata_piix and ahci (#195779)
- fix section in man page (#207469)
mkinitrd-5.1.17-1
-----------------
* Thu Sep 21 2006 Peter Jones <pjones(a)redhat.com> - 5.1.17-1
- Fix module dependency probing when there's no modalias
* Wed Sep 20 2006 Peter Jones <pjones(a)redhat.com> - 5.1.16-1
- Don't require non-tmpfs tmpdir unless we're using loopback
- Fix symlink chasing for yaboot.conf in grubby (#207302)
* Wed Sep 20 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- Hack for moduledeps of gfs2/nfs
openoffice.org-1:2.0.4-4.2
--------------------------
* Tue Sep 19 2006 Caolan McNamara <caolanm(a)redhat.com> - 1:2.0.4-4.2
- add openoffice.org-2.0.4.gccXXXXX.svtools.fsstorage.patch to work
around fsstorage crash apparently triggered by gcc -Os change
* Fri Sep 15 2006 Caolan McNamara <caolanm(a)redhat.com> - 1:2.0.4-4.1
- ooo#69585# x86_64 svtools database crasher
- fix rh#206264# 16bit .ppt load crash
- ooo#69653# 64bitscaling chart2 display fix
poppler-0.5.4-1.fc6
-------------------
* Thu Sep 21 2006 Kristian Høgsberg <krh(a)redhat.com> - 0.5.4-1.fc6
- Rebase to 0.5.4, drop poppler-0.5.3-libs.patch, fixes #205813,
ppc64-utils-0.9-14
------------------
* Thu Sep 21 2006 Peter Jones <pjones(a)redhat.com> - 0.9-14
- Fix iSeries support in addRamDisk
redhat-lsb-3.1-10.3
-------------------
* Thu Sep 21 2006 Lawrence Lim <llim(a)redhat.com> - 3.1-10.3
- Fix upgrade issue; Bug 202548
sudo-1.6.8p12-9
---------------
* Thu Sep 21 2006 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec(a)redhat.com> 1.6.8p12-9
- fix sudoers file, X apps didn't work (#206320)
xen-3.0.2-36
------------
* Thu Sep 21 2006 Stephen C. Tweedie <sct(a)redhat.com> - 3.0.2-36
- Add Requires: kpartx for dom0 access to domU data
* Wed Sep 20 2006 Stephen C. Tweedie <sct(a)redhat.com> - 3.0.2-35
- Don't strip qemu-dm early, so that we get proper debuginfo (danpb)
- Fix compile problem with latest glibc
* Wed Sep 20 2006 Stephen C. Tweedie <sct(a)redhat.com> - 3.0.2-34
- Update to xen-unstable changeset 11539
- Threading fixes for libVNCserver (danpb)
17 years, 7 months
yum access to fc6 mirror sites
by glenn
Is there a solution to the yum access of mirror sites for FC6.
Currently only the Ibiblio site is accessed. That site is very out of
date, and if it has anything you are trying to fetch, it is trottle at
abt 17 KB/s (only slightly faster than dialup).
I keep seeing the buildsys reports that show new pkgs updates have been
generated, but when Ibiblio does not update, those updates are not
available to testor like myself.
Is this a problem with some update to yum, OR is the mirror support
system mucked up. I used to find yum would try to work with numerous
alternative mirror sites.
Glenn
17 years, 7 months
