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mixing repositoies
by Stuart McGraw 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Till now, I have avoided repository mixing problem by using only things from fedora-extras. But as I continue my slow move from Micro$oft, I think with fc6 I will need to add some packages not available in fc extras. I have seen lots of admonitions about the dangers of mixing packages from, for example, livna and dries. But I have not seen any clear technical descriptions of exactly *what* (with examples) the problem is! The stuff I have turned up with Google says only "Don't do it. Just install this rpm (which will cause you to use my repo.)" Can anyone point me to (or give me) a good detailed technical explanation of the problems? Has anything changed with fc6?

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SATA SCSI Id assignments - two drives being assigned the same Channel/Id/Lun on boot
by Claude Jones 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

In the thread "mount doesn't mount on boot-up" we have found a problem with the way my SATA drives are being ID'd, as seen below. # cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ATA Model: ST3160023AS Rev: 3.05 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ATA Model: ST3300622AS Rev: 3.AA Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD5000YS-01M Rev: 07.0 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 The first two entries appear to have the same Channel/Id/Lun - the problem I'm having has to do with my third drive not being mounted at boot. My fstab looks like this: LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 LABEL=SWAP-sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sdc1 /home/cj/archive ext3 defaults 1 2 This results in this error in my system log while booting: Nov 2 00:37:04 localhost kernel: audit(1162445820.853:6): avc: denied { mounton } for pid=2338 comm="mount" name="archive" dev=sdb1 ino=65175554 scontext=system_u:system_r:mount_t:s0 tcontext=user_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 tclass=dir Nov 2 00:37:04 localhost kernel: audit(1162445820.853:7): avc: denied { mounton } for pid=2338 comm="mount" name="archive" dev=sdb1 ino=65175554 scontext=system_u:system_r:mount_t:s0 tcontext=user_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 tclass=dir The last line in my fstab relating to sdc1 is the issue - when I boot, the process is trying to mount sdb1 instead, for a second time, since that drive is already mounted by the 5th line in my fstab which starts with LABEL=/home Has anyone else encountered this? Guess I'm going to head over to bugzilla and see if there are any reports of this, but, I'm wondering if there's something I could have misconfigured that's causing this. -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA

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FC6 - Acrobat Reader
by Antonio M 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

I replaced Acrobat Reader by official Rpm from Adobe. Made minor modification to acroread files as per FC6 installtion tips&tricks. Now I have two buttons in my Office menu to start Acrobat Reader Any suggestion? Tnx -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag

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FC3: yum does not install mozilla-nspr
by Alexander Farber 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Hello, I've got an account on a virtuals server (VPS, I think "Virtuozzo") and am trying to install the mozilla-nspr package there: [root@vs1164046 ~]# cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) [root@vs1164046 ~]# sudo yum clean all Cleaning up Everything 102 headers removed 102 packages removed 6 metadata files removed 3 cache files removed [root@vs1164046 ~]# yum install mozilla-nspr Setting up Install Process Setting up Repos extras 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/repodata/rep…: [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found Trying other mirror. base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files extras : ################################################## 1775/1775 updates-re: ################################################## 910/910 base : ################################################## 2622/2622 Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package mozilla-nspr.i386 37:1.7.12-1.3.1 set to be updated --> Running transaction check Dependencies Resolved Transaction Listing: Install: mozilla-nspr.i386 37:1.7.12-1.3.1 - updates-released Total download size: 108 k Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: (1/1): mozilla-nspr-1.7.1 100% |=========================| 108 kB 00:00 warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2 public key not available for mozilla-nspr-1.7.12-1.3.1.i386.rpm [root@vs1164046 ~]# rpm -ql mozilla-nspr package mozilla-nspr is not installed Why wouldn't yum install please? Thank you Regards Alex PS: Here is my unmodified yum.conf: [root@vs1164046 ~]# cat /etc/yum.conf [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 retries=20 obsoletes=1 gpgcheck=1 # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo # in /etc/yum.repos.d -- http://preferans.de

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Problem between Webcam Logitech Pro 4000's microphone and sound card Intel 82801BA AC'97 Audio.
by Vinicius 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Hello, The sound card is always on. When the webcam is on, the volume control shows only microphone control and there is no option to change to the sound card. When the webcam is off, the system recognizes the sound card, so it's displayed at volume control, that way I can hear sound. Any ideas to solve this issue, please? TIA, Vinicius.

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fc6 install fail on HP ProLiant ML320 G4
by Dario Lesca 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Hi, I am trying to install FC6 on a HP Proliant ML320 G3 with two SATA disk with RAID mirroring the setup hangs just after starting the graphical interface. X start but not show Welcome messages, the mouse move the X cursor but none appear an I can't procede with setup. I switch to CTR+ALT+F2, the ps -fea show a process of anaconda witch use all CPU.... I have test this boot options: linux askmethod vnc vncconnect=myhost linux vesa linux vesa askmethod (install from NFS server) linux See log from next messages .... anaconda.log.bz2 dmes.log.bz2 lspci.log.bz2 mount.log.bz2 ps-fea.log.bz2 syslog.bz2 vncserver.log.bz2 Now I am installing fc5 and all work great. If someone send me some suggest, some boot options, ecc. I can test it Many thanks to all -- Dario Lesca <d.lesca(a)solinos.it>

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FC5 is driving me crazy.
by Aaron Konstam 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

I have a machine that works under FCx [x = 2-5] but now goes crazy under FC6. These are the highlights. 1. Xen kernel was installed bu default. With it running the GUI boot stopped (did not show any failures) then went back into GUI mode. This never happened to me before. I switched to the basic kernel and this behavior stopped. How ever under both kernels shutdown does not work. I get all the right messages up to an including System halted but the power remains on. Again this never happened before. 2. Previously I had sound. Now no sound card is detected. I thought something might have happened to the card itself so I opened the machine and found the sound card is part of the mother board. 3. People are complaining about failure of the CUPS interface. Mine works and I defined a printer but printing to that printer does not work neither does browsing of printers of the print server on the LAN. I have been using Linux foe more than a decade and never saw a distribution act like this. Any thoughts would be welcome. Under current circumstances FC6 seems unusable. I realize others have not reported the same problems but my machine has not changed but the distribution has. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net>

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FC6 - How to use Bluetooth
by Nicholas Adrian Suppiah 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Karel Brinda, Checkout the "Howto File transfer with Bluetooth" for FC5 at fedoraforum.org (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=664719#post664719). Maybe you could check it out and update there, if that Howto can be applied to FC6.

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fc6 - connection timeouts
by Raghavendra Moktali 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

hi, FC6 on an Thinkpad R51. issues: i586 kernel problem, yum does not work, not able to google. [root@localhost ~]# yum install yum-utils Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=core-6&arch=i386 error was [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core can anyone point me where to look? in firefox, i am also not able to access google, sourceforge. times out. (ping shows no loss) no issues with www.fedoraproject.org tia for help, rm

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Has anyone succeded on builduing rt2500 on FC6
by Ed Landaveri 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Gentlemen, ladies, I had no problem with the ralink2500 driver for wireless on FC5. I just downloaded it, untarred, run make & make install-fedora and it worked. I have: kernel-headers-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 gcc-4.1.1-30 gcc-c++-4.1.1-30 gcc-gfortran-4.1.1-30 libgcc-4.1.1-30 gcc-gnat-4.1.1-30 gcc-objc-4.1.1-30 But everytime I tried to build the driver on FC6 I got: [root@myhost Module]# make make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i586' CC [M] /usr/src/rt2500-1.1.0-b4/Module/rtmp_main.o In file included from /usr/src/rt2500-1.1.0-b4/Module/rtmp_main.c:50: /usr/src/rt2500-1.1.0-b4/Module/rt_config.h:58:40: error: linux/config.h: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [/usr/src/rt2500-1.1.0-b4/Module/rtmp_main.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/usr/src/rt2500-1.1.0-b4/Module] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i586' rt2500.ko failed to build! make: *** [module] Error 1 Has anyone succeded on building it? What I'm doing wrong? Any help will be appreciatted. Thanks By the way Fedora is more beautiful than ever. Thanks developers! Linux user number 433512 Free as in Freedom: http://counter.li.org --------------------------------- Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business.

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