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Gno fonts in GNOME (not pango problem)
by Mark J. Reed 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

For some reason I have no fonts in GNOME. It's not the pango problem; my pango.modules is fully populated and world readable, as are all the directories it references. But when I do a cleanup and start gnome from scratch, all text disappears as soon as it gets to the globe+arrow logo. I assume from this that it's a locale problem, but I have no idea where to go from there. I also get empty .gnome2/share/?(cursor-)fonts/fonts.dir files - or actually, containing just the single character '0'. Dunno if that's related or if it just means I don't have my own custom fonts. Any help? -Mark

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Nautilus and .dat file type
by Norman Gaywood 21 May '04

21 May '04

This is probably an upstream problem/feature, but anyway here goes. Nautilus thinks that files that have an extension of .dat are mpeg videos. That has got to be wrong. Surely, nautilus should do more that use a file extension to determine file type? Is there a way I can change this behaviour for all users of the system? I came across this problem during a class on the R statistical package. They were all using gnome login sessions and no one could edit their data files from nautilus because it thought they were MPEG videos! -- Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia norm(a)turing.une.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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fedora on a alpha server.
by David Drew 12 May '04

12 May '04

hi, has anyone had any joy installing fedora on a alpha processor based system?

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midnight commander
by peter peter 29 Apr '04

29 Apr '04

I'm using midnight commander, it's very good file manager, but now anybody about other file commander for gnome, thanks Peto

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yummir, manage mirror servers in /etc/yum.conf
by Sean Reifschneider 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

I've been working on a program to manage the lists of repositories, and the associated mirror servers in /etc/yum.conf. I call it yummir. It polls a server for information on repositories and their mirrors, and then uses that information to place into /etc/yum.conf. For example, to update yum.conf with the latest set of mirrors: yummir update Or, to add the macromedia flash repository do: yummir add macromedia Currently, I'm only publishing repository information for Fedora. I'm managing the list manually, and will shortly be working on tools that automatically find out if a mirror is up to date and publishes new lists based on that. Only a Fedora ix86 repository list is available, but it should be easy to publish more information. Please check it out and let me know what you think. It's available at: http://www.tummy.com/Software/yummir/ ftp://ftp.tummy.com/pub/tummy/yummir/ Thanks, Sean -- Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. -- T.J. Sean Reifschneider, Member of Technical Staff <jafo(a)tummy.com> tummy.com, ltd. - Linux Consulting since 1995. Qmail, Python, SysAdmin

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bug or problem with gcc and include files
by David Jansen 17 Apr '04

17 Apr '04

I have to install a program here at work that compiles fine on SuSe and on RedHat 9, but not on FC1. After experimenting with the routines and eliminating everything that is not necessary to reproduce the bug, this is what it boils down to: $ cat test1.c void test1() { #include <sys/file.h> return(0); } $ gcc -o test1.o -c test1.c In file included from /usr/include/sys/types.h:219, from /usr/include/bits/fcntl.h:25, from /usr/include/fcntl.h:33, from /usr/include/sys/file.h:25, from test1.c:3: /usr/include/sys/sysmacros.h: In function `test1': /usr/include/sys/sysmacros.h:43: error: nested function `gnu_dev_major' declared `extern' /usr/include/sys/sysmacros.h:49: error: nested function `gnu_dev_minor' declared `extern' /usr/include/sys/sysmacros.h:55: error: nested function `gnu_dev_makedev' declared `extern' Now that's easy to fix; if I move the #include out of the function to the top of the source file, it compiles woithout any problems. Only the package author didn't accept this "patch", stating that the program is correct and the bug is in the fedora includes or gcc version. What is your collective wisdom on this subject? David Jansen

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Grub problem
by Denham Eva 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

Hello, New to fedora and have installed it, grub was default (I don't remember being able to choose lilo), It asked to create a boot disk, which I did. When the installation completed the harddisk comes up with a grub prompt at which I can't do much(or should I say, I don't know what to do). It however does boot from Floppy drive. Now I usually use lilo with all my Redhat servers, so I don't know grub at all. After reading the man page I soon realized I had no clue. I am also too afraid to try and "play" with it as I might loose my WinXP partition. So can anyone help me out with the synatx of the grub.conf file? My machines configuration is as follows /dev/hda1 WinXP partition. /dev/hda2 / How do I write grub to MBR so that it will run at bootup? Many Thanks, any help will be appreciated. Regards Denham Eva

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installing ClamAV with Yum
by Robert Spangler 11 Apr '04

11 Apr '04

Hi, Subject says it all. Is there a way to install Clam AV with YUM? Thnx -- Regards Robert Smile..... It increases your face value.

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Search for a good desktop(NOT desktop environment)
by Kaustubh Ghosh 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

Does anyone know of a good desktop (NOT desktop environment) for Linux? I have kicked out both gnome and kde recently as they couldn't give me speed, and I am using blackbox now which is perfectly fine and superbly fast. but i need a desktop for putting some icons and shortcuts if possible. I am using ROX Filer as file manager. It is supposed to be able to function as a desktop (pinboard, in their lingo), but doesn't work with me. The desktop better be as minimal as possible. Thanks in advance.

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Promise or Highpoint IDE card?
by Jean-Eric Cuendet 05 Apr '04

05 Apr '04

Hi, Does anybody know if the IDE Cards from Promise and/or Highpoint work in Fedora core-1? I'm specially interested in Promise FastTrack 133 or HighPoint 372. I don't want to use the RAID functions, just the IDE part. I can't find good infos... Thanks -jec -- Jean-Eric Cuendet Riskpro Technologies SA Av du 14 avril 1b, 1020 Renens Switzerland Principal: +41 21 637 0110 Fax: +41 21 637 01 11 Direct: +41 21 637 0123 E-mail: jean-eric.cuendet at rptec.ch http://www.rptec.ch --------------------------------------------------------

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