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Testing apps on dual booting machine.
by M.Rudra 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Hello List , Currently I use FC-1 and also have a dual boot machine with win-XP. My question : I have not programmed with Linux, but would like to. So if i create a seperate *user* and download any linux application under development to fiddle with, will it crash my dual boot or linux box ? I had read a few articles/blogs about problems with testing/programming on a dual booting FC and XP machine. I dont want that problem :-) as i wouldnt know how to fix it. This is my home PC - I use it for regular stuff (music, email, browsing, office apps, other stuff...) and yet I want it to be stable.... Any suggestions/info/ideas welcome.. thanks..MR

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Nautilus asks keyring password twice
by Gedas 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Hello, I have several network connections in my nautilus configuration. I also have nautilus keyring set up for passwords of those network connections. Each time I start my X window session nautilus displays my desktop without any problems, but when I start nautilus file manager it wants me to enter my keyring password and for some reason I get TWO dialogs asking "The application 'File manager' (/usr/bin/nautilus) wants access to the default keyring, but it is locked." Does anybody why one dialog box is not enough? I run FC3, nautilus 2.8.2-2.1.fc3.nr Thanks -- Gedas

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Removing a "busy" text file?
by Richard S. Crawford 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

I began to rip a CD using KAudioCreator. Halfway through, I realized that I'd put in the wrong filename format, and cancelled the job. Then I went into the directory where it had been writing files to, and tried to delete one of the created MP3's. I got the following error message: richard@seamus: ~/music/Howard Shore $ rm -rf THELO~1H/ rm: cannot remove `THELO~1H//Concerning Hobbits.mp3': Text file busy running ls gives: richard@seamus: ~/music/Howard Shore/THELO~1H $ ls -laF total 8 drwxrwxrwx 1 richard 504 4096 Jan 30 11:52 ./ drwxrwxrwx 1 richard 504 4096 Jan 30 11:47 ../ -rwxrwxrwx 1 richard 504 0 Jan 30 11:48 Concerning Hobbits.mp3* I've shut down KAudioCreator and used ps to see if there is still a KAudioCreator process running, but I can't find one. How could the file be busy? I'm not looking at it in any other program. I've tried to delete it in several ways, even su'ing to root to do so. Any thoughts? What could be causing this, and how can I fix it? -- Slainte, Richard S. Crawford (mailto: rscrawford(a)mossroot.com) AIM: Buffalo2K / http://www.mossroot.com "You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus." -Mark Twain GPG Public Key located at: http://www.mossroot.com/rscrawford.asc

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What version of software to download?
by Leandro Melo 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Hi, i'm a beginner use. I've been trying to set up my development enviroment in fedora. Don't know if i'll be able to do it, but as i go one step further i come up with thousands of doubts. Here's a basic one. I'd like to download Eclipse (java ide) and there are a few builds for linux. In my case, i know i'd get the x86's versions, but there're two of them. - Linux (x86/Motif) - Linux (x86/GTK 2) There are an info page that says the red had system would use the gtk version, so i think that that's what i should use in fedora. However, i have a doubt: i understand that motif and gtk are user interfaces software, but i don't understand why would they have two diferent builds in this case. Can anyone explain to me? Also, i use default's gnome in fedora core, may it cause any problem? Thanks. -- Leandro

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Open Mac screenshot on Fedora
by Hannes Mayer 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Hi all! I just got a few screenshots produced on a Mac (OS 9 ?). Those are files without any extension - I tried to open them with GIMP, but it said it cannot recognize the file- format. Viewing the files with the krusader editor shows no header - I was hoping to see some info about the format in the header. Does anyone have ideas how to open these screenshots ? Thanks & best regards, Hannes.

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Mozilla Web Cofiguration
by Kumara Jayaweera 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Hi all, My FC3 is up with network card and the DSL line is connected but still I can not see the Internet.(it shows that network card is active) I use a Linksys router for DSL and furthermore, I 'am running winxp as a dual boot configuration and there is no problem getting the Internet in xp side, only thing I should do is entering the proxy settings in internet explorer. could someone tell me what should I do in FC3 for getting Internet up Thank you Mohan

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[GRUB]Resolution setup
by Daniel Moyne 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

I have GRUB in a bad resolution at startup ; I have added this in each kernel entry : vga=791 but it does not work ! ; what is the trick ; I wish LILO used by most of the users had been retained by Fedora as the bootloader ! Regards -- Daniel Moyne (Nulix)---------------------------------------------------------- Distribution : Mandrake 10.0 \\|// kernel 2.4 / --- \ KDE 3.2 (' o-o ') ------------------------------------oOO-(_)-OOo-------------------------------

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start kde by default
by Daniel Kirsten 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Hi, I installed Fedora 3. Whenever I log in, a gnome session is started unless I choose "kde" in the session menu. (I did not install gnome!) How can I configure this behaviour to get kde started by default? Best regards, Daniel -- Sparen beginnt mit GMX DSL: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl

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Harddisk errors
by Pasha R 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Hi, Recently I'm getting following error messages in my syslog: Feb 2 10:26:04 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 9393983 Feb 2 10:26:04 localhost kernel: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Feb 2 10:26:04 localhost kernel: hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=9393996, high=0, low=9393996, sector=9393991 Feb 2 10:26:04 localhost kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown Feb 2 10:26:04 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 9393991 Feb 2 10:26:15 localhost smartd[4372]: Device: /dev/hdb, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Does it mean that it's time to replace the disk? Is there any utility that performs surface check for the disk? Thanks, Pavel.

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[GRUB / LILO]how to use 2 distributions in parallel
by Daniel Moyne 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Here is some information on my present setup making possible to use either Mandrake (my current distribution) and Fedora Core 3 (FC3 my second distribution presently being on test) ; this I would imagine might be of use for people that want to install a Mandrake distribution for test in parallel to their FC3 distribution. Both distributions are installed on separate partitions : a) for Mandrake I have LILO on MBR (hda1) ; here is my LILO configuration : Beginning of file------------------- # File generated by DrakX/drakboot # WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file default="2.6.8.1-udev" boot="/dev/hda" map=/boot/map vga="791" prompt nowarn timeout="100" message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image="/boot/vmlinuz" label="linux" root="/dev/hda1" initrd="/boot/initrd.img" append="devfs=mount acpi=ht" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-4mdk label="2.6.3-devfs" root=/dev/hda1 append="devfs=mount acpi=ht" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.25-2mdk label="2.4.25-devfs" root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.25-2mdk.img append="devfs=mount acpi=ht" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-12mdk label="2.6.8.1-udev" root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.8.1-12mdk.img append="acpi=ht" read-only other=/dev/hdb1 label=grub End of file------------------------- - with this configuration when booting from MBR through LILO I can access FC3 world with GRUB using the last entry with label=grub. b) for FC3 its own bootloader installed on hdb1 therefore not on MBR therefore still allowing use of Mandrake distribution ; here is my GRUB configuration file : Beginning of file------------------- default=0 timeout=10 i18n (hd1,0)/boot/grub/messages splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz color black/cyan yellow/cyan title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667) root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ vga=791 initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.741) root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.741_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ vga=791 initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.10-1.741_FC3.img title LILO rootnoverify (hd0) chainloader +1 End of file------------------------- - with this configuration when booting from MBR through LILO I can access GRUB ; when in GRUB Ican go back to LILO (and then to GRUB.... for fun all days long !). - with proper modification of "fstab" file in each world I can access partitions and therefore files of the other world ; for example Paul told me how to configure GRUB through a message collected with KMail-Mandrake as I am handling my mail for practical reasons with Mandrake : in root mode I directly configured my "grub.conf" of GRUB-FC3 before rebooting and check for effect ; this would also help in fixing files when you are no more able to boot from a distribution by doing it from the other distribution (it happened to me with Mandrake that my root password was no more accepted ; I fixed it with my Mandrake CD but now I would use FC3 !). - rebooting from Mandrake is more powerfull with some logging managers as you can directly select you LILO entry, for example "grub" entry, to reboot through selection. - KDE in Mandrake includes a LILO module in KDE Desktop Configuration Center that allows direct modification of LILO setup in root mode ; this does not exist for GRUB with FC3 ; it icludes more : an "info" module where you can visualize all your system features including SCSI, USB, IRQ's etc... ; this does nor exist with KDE as proposed by FC3. - when I boot with kernel 2.6.8 entry in LILO I have apic mode as I have to include "noapic" in "append" section to be without ; with kernel 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 apparently I have "noapic" option on as far as I could check ; how to force use of apic ? I want to thank Paul, Thomas and Jeff in particular from that list that somehow helped me to put all this together. That is all folks ! -- Daniel Moyne (Nulix)---------------------------------------------------------- Distribution : Mandrake 10.2 test \\|// Fedora Core 3 on test kernel 2.6.8 / --- \ kernel 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 KDE 3.3 (' o-o ') KDE 3.3 ------------------------------------oOO-(_)-OOo-------------------------------

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