gdm could not write to your authorization file
by Yong Chu Eu ()
HI,
I have problem to login KDE(even with root), even i had deleted all file in
/tmp, but i can login as root under last Default System Session
my error message stated as below:
/etc/X11/gdm/preSession/Default:Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: Running : /usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg -a -w
/var/run/utmp -x "/var/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -1 ":0" "root"
Not Enought free disk space on /tmp
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18 years, 9 months
Re: Our (US) $s at work.
by David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)
mrsam(a)courier-mta.com wrote:
> Two years from now, folks running older versions of RH or FC for which
> no glibc update was issued will have their clocks stop showing correct
> time for most of the year.
>
> That's because Washington has screwed around with Daylight Savings
> Time, again. They don't have anything better to do inside the Beltway,
> apparently.
>
> I always thought that daylight time was a joke. It's totally stupid,
> and has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. I am aware of the official
> excuse for daylight time, but I still think it's stupid, it's dumb,
> and idiotic. If anyone is really serious about saving energy, they
> should simply change the timezone permanently.
>
> Starting in 2007, the so-called "standard time" will actually be in
> effect for less than half a year. Standard time won't really be the
> standard most of the time. Isn't it amazing? The US is now the
> laughing stock of the entire world. You can almost see everyone point
> their fingers across the Atlantic: “Those dumb yanks, they can't even
> make up their mind what time of day it is, most of the time!”
>
As a non-morning person, I've always said, "The early worm deserves the
bird." Daylight savings time is like trying to make a blanket longer by
cutting a foot of material off the bottom of the blanket and sewing it
onto the top. The blanket is only as long as it is and there are still
only 24 hours in an Earth day; if you want a longer "day", move to Mars.
Whenever someone tries to convince me of Benjamin Franklin's genius, I
just mention daylight savings time.
Cheers,
Dave
18 years, 9 months
More and more yum dependency problems
by Harald Grossauer
Running "yum update" for the first time in almost four weeks, I get the
following errors:
Error: Missing Dependency: gcc = 4.0.0 is needed by package libtool
Error: Missing Dependency: openoffice.org-core = 1:1.9.104-2 is needed
by package openoffice.org-pyuno
Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies
Error: Package mozilla needs mozilla-nss = 37:1.7.8-2, this is not
available.
Error: Package mozilla needs mozilla-nspr = 37:1.7.8-2, this is not
available.
Error: Package libtool needs gcc = 4.0.0, this is not available.
Error: Package openoffice.org-pyuno needs openoffice.org-core =
1:1.9.104-2, this is not available.
Any ideas what is going on here?
18 years, 9 months
Soundcard
by Marcus Zingmark
Hi!
Got Fedora Core 4 installed since yesterday and getting to know it
better hour for hour.
I have problem with my Soundcard and I'm quite sure it's software
related cause it works well under Windows. The thing is that I have
sound and all but it's a buzzing sound that's quite annoying that have
not been there before. The buzz disapears if I pause the track so it
does not seem to be related to the cables/speakers.
Linux had no trouble finding my sound device but I'm a bit confused by
the name cause the soundcard detector says: "Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI" and
I'm quite sure I have Creative Labs Soundblaster 128PCI. Can this be a
driver issue?
Would be very tankeful for help with this issue, and keep it simple
cause I'm really a newbie ;)
/// Marcus
18 years, 9 months
Disc Partitioning for Multi-Boot (long)
by Mike McCarty
Some of this may be off-topic, some on-topic.
I'll spare you the gory details of how we got here.
Here's the hardware setup:
Main board with 512MB RAM.
3 1/2" floppy drive
24x DVD/CD reader
48x CD writer
80GB WD drive, partitioned as 40GB FAT32 + 40GB unallocated
80GB WD drive, partitioned as 80GB NTFS
Win 98 is happily running in the FAT32 partition.
We need to get the data off of the NTFS partition.
I started up Knoppix, and mounted the FAT32 r/w, and the NTFS r/o,
created a directory named "oldd" on the FAT32, and did a massive
cp -pr /mnt/hdb1/* .
which ran for about 3 hours. Then I did a
diff /mnt/hdb1 .
and between 6000 and 7000 files miscompare, due to having different
names. They differ in the case of the file names. It took 1 1/2 hours to
run, so I guess about 1/2 of the data did not get checked. I tried
diff --ignore-file-names-case /mnt/hdb1 .
and got exactly the same results. Hmm. The man page for diff under
FC2 and Knoppix apparently differ. FC2 doesn't list that option...
So, ok. I'll try making a script which will do renames, and then go back
and do more diffs. And BTW, the names probably need to be fixed, anyway.
First question: How better to get that data from the second drive?
I've considered using tar and WinZip. Would that be better?
But the next question is how to partition the drive so Windows and Linux
can co-exist on the first drive?
The fdisk supplied with Windows 98 cannot manage that disc. Win98
apparently can live happily in something already formatted for it, but
cannot manage the large partitions itself. A utility from Western
Digital can manage the partitions, and even format a FAT32 disc and make
it bootable. But if it is run on a drive, it insists on wiping the MBR.
(That's how we got Win98 on that large partition.) Hmm, maybe use
dd to lift the MBR, use the WD utility to repartition, then merge
in the bootstrap from the original? I looked at parted but do not
feel confident in my ability to use it. I'm not very familiar with
dd, either.
She'd like to make additional partitions in the 40GB of unallocated
space on the first drive, and make a multi-boot system which can
boot several versions of Linux for try-out. She's thinking about
Red Hat (try Fedora and if she likes it, she'd buy RHEL), Debian,
Knoppix, Mandrake, Suse, Puppy, and CentOS. She'd try two or so
at a time, and when she found one she likes, she'd go with it.
I have the FC2 discs here, and the FC4 ISOs, and don't mind getting the
FC3 ISOs if they might be better, so the second question I want to pose is
How shall I make a multi-boot system out of that machine, with the
possibility of booting at least Windows 98 and two versions of Linux
concurrently? I must either not use the second disc, or I must reliably
recover the information from it before using it. Also, when a version
of Linux has been decided upon, how to re-partition and get maximum
use out of the disc with Win98 and Linux on it? I'm strongly considering
putting /home on a separate partition. Can we do that in such a manner
that different versions of Linux can remount it later without having to
save/restore the data there? How about swap?
I'm pretty sure Anaconda can handle what she wants, but I'm not
so familiar with Anaconda, either. I'm an old hand at *NIX machines
from the development standpoint, but not with the admin side
of things, and those things differ from system to system anyway.
Third question: Her main use for the Linux boot will be web page
management. She has tried Open Office, and several other packages
which run on Linux, and has not found one with all the features
she wants. Apparently there is a package for WinXP which is
very nice, and which she likes. Don't ask me, I know nothing
about Web Pages. Are there some really nice web management / HTML
editors available for Linux? I found Amaya, but it really couldn't
install properly when running from CDROM (Puppy).
She doesn't want to become a "fiddler" again, though she has, in
past done that. She'd like to "install and go" now. Her interest
in computers is now more on the "tool" side than the "hobby/fun" side.
Mike
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18 years, 9 months
supported 802.11g pcmcia card + WPA support
by Peter Magnusson
Hi there.
I have looked a looong time for a 802.11g pcmcia (pc-card) card with WPA
support that is supported in linux, more exact in FC4. I havent been able
to find any, maybe I could get some advices which card I should buy here?
18 years, 9 months
Slightly OT: Firewire drives - daisy chain or hub?
by D. D. Brierton
This is perhaps a little off-topic, but maybe not too much so as the
answer might depend on how Linux and FC3 handle Firewire. I need to copy
large (~80GB) amounts of data from one external Firewire/IEEE-1394 hard
disk drive to another. My machine only has one Firewire port. One of the
drives has a Firewire port on the back, so it is possible to daisy chain
the disks together. Alternatively I could go out and buy a fairly
inexpensive powered Firewire hub and connect the two drives to that.
Are there pros and cons to these two methods that I should be aware of?
Is one preferable to the other?
TIA.
Best, Darren
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18 years, 9 months
VNC problem
by John Aldrich
I made the mistake of leaving a full-screen VNC session going from my wife's
Windows ME box to my linux box. She couldn't figure out how to get back to
Windows, so she rebooted her box. Now, my system thinks that there's a :1
session going somewhere, but I can't seem to find the lock or the PID file.
I've looked in my ~/.vnc folder, renamed the .vnc folder to .vnc-old and made
a new .vnc folder, and copied the relevant files over, rebooted my box (I
needed to anyway, to use the new kernel I installed via up2date awhile back)
and still, every time I try to start a new VNC session, I get it starting
on :2.
Any ideas on how to get the new session started on :1 again? There are no vnc
server sessions currently running, I checked. I *did* have a stale .pid file,
only visible by root, but it's gone now.
HELP! I'd really like to get my :1 session back, since that's the session I
tunnel to from my Win2k box at work. :-)
Thanks
John
18 years, 9 months
Boot fails
by Kevin Waterson
When I insert Disk one the machine begins to boot from the disk
Then I get a message that says isoLinux Boot failed cannot find CDROM
Where do I go from here?
Kevin
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18 years, 9 months
FC4 installation doesn't work
by Juan
Hi.
I bought the CDs from Linux central and they tested OK.
I have FC3 installed in this box and its installation was a breeze.
Now when trying to install/upgrade to FC4 I go through the Anaconda process
till the moment it should begin to ask for the language. At this point the
screen turns totally white so I can't keep installing.
Is there a way to overcome this? Has someone had this kind of problem and
solved it?
Thanks in advance
Juan
18 years, 9 months
