Accidental File Deletion
by Steven Pasternak
Hi! I accidentally deleted some files on an ext3 Fedora 5 partition. Is
there any way to un-delete them? They were deleted with the 'rm'
command, so there is not a trash can with them. They weren't anything I
can't live without, though. I just had some shell scripts under ~/bin
that did simple things. Thanks!
-Steven
18 years
CDROM boot error
by Jack Taylor
In attempting to upgrade from RH 6.2 to FC-4 from a CD on an AMD K5 100 MHz
machine I get the following error on boot-up:
"Verifying DMI pool data ....
Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM:
1. FD (binary characters) System Type-(00)"
The AMD K-5 then switches to booting RH 6.2 from the Hard Drive.
I have verified that the FC-4 disc boots fine on a newer machine, so the
disc itself
is OK.
There is no problem with the CD player in the AMD K-5 as far as reading CDs
are concerned. Just won't boot from the FC-4 installation disc.
Other than purchasing new equipment, can I disable the drives on the newer
machine, move the AMD K-5 drive over and install FC-4 on the drive, and then
move it back to the AMD K-5?
What are my options?
Jack
18 years
Laptop Display problems
by Annette T Robart
Hi there, please excuse me; I am totally new to this product. I have
installed FC1 to my desktop with absolutely no problems. It came with my
textbook for my Unix class. Now I am trying to install it on an extra
laptop that I don't use. It was a new hard drive so it is the only thing on
it. It is an IBM A21P 850Mhz, with 512 ram and a 15 inch monitor. It
installs fine, but it stops at the monitor and I'm not sure what to pick?? I
don't see anything in the documentation and nothing in the BIOS. I guessed a
couple times and when it boots up the X window fails. I get "bad mode
clock/interface", hsync out of range, fatal error, no screens found.
Does anyone know what I should pick for a monitor and what range I should
pick?
Thanks so much!
Annette
18 years
Intel i915GM video and xorg
by Marcelo Magno T. Sales
Hi,
The video chipset of my notebook is Intel i915GM. The xorg driver
provided in FC5 for this video card doesn't work ok. The mouse cursor
is not shown and the video is not updated correctly.
Is there a better driver available anywhere? Or the only way to run X
correctly is using the vesa driver?
Thanks,
Marcelo
18 years
Looking for a rpm for PyX
by Paul Smith
Dear All
Does somebody know about the existence of a rpm for PyX for FC5?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
18 years
OT?
by Dave Stevens
If restaurants functioned like...
There's a difference between service and support.
Dateline: Tuesday, April 25, 2006
If restaurants functioned like ...
Patron: Waiter!
Waiter: Hi, my name is Bill, and I'll be your Support.
Waiter. What seems to be the problem?
Patron: There's a fly in my soup!
Waiter: Try again, maybe the fly won't be there this time.
Patron: No, it's still there.
Waiter: Maybe it's the way you're using the soup. Try eating it with a fork
instead.
Patron: Even when I use the fork, the fly is still there.
Waiter: Maybe the soup is incompatible with the bowl. What kind of bowl are
you using?
Patron: A SOUP bowl!
Waiter: Hmmm, that should work. Maybe it's a configuration problem. How was
the bowl set up?
Patron: You brought it to me on a saucer. What has that to do with the fly in
my soup?!
Waiter: Can you remember everything you did before you noticed the fly in your
soup?
Patron: I sat down and ordered the Soup of the Day!
Waiter: Have you considered upgrading to the latest Soup of the Day?
Patron: You have more than one Soup of the Day each day??
Waiter: Yes, the Soup of the Day changes every hour.
Patron: Well, what is the Soup of the Day now?
Waiter: The current Soup of the Day is tomato.
Patron: Fine. Bring me the tomato soup and the check. I'm running late now.
[Waiter leaves and returns with another bowl of soup and the check.]
Waiter: Here you are, Sir, the soup and your check.
Patron: This is potato soup.
Waiter: Yes, the tomato soup wasn't ready yet.
Patron: Well, I'm so hungry now, I'll eat anything.
[Waiter leaves.]
Patron: Waiter! There's a spider in my soup!
The check:
Soup of the day. . . . . . . . . . .$5.00
Fly Feature. . . . . . . . . . . no charge
Upgrade to newer Soup of the Day. . . .$2.50
Access to support. . . . . . . . . . . $1.00
--
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I
expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's
fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
-Bertrand Russell in
Education and the Social Order
18 years
Samba & AD configuration
by Milos Puchta
Hi!
I have read and googled around but failed to find comprehensive
description of Samba &Active Directory setup via graphical interface
(W2K3 highest domain and forest functional level) From the Network
Monitor output and messsages log I understand, that the LDAP bind
request fails. I cannot see the communication to port 88 (Kerberos),
which explains perhaps the failing bind.
Any hint, chcklist, procedure of GUI procedure description would
be appreciated. I would prefere solution that does not lower the
security (eg by disabling encrypted communication with AD)
TIA
Milos
18 years
Evolution mystery
by Aaron Konstam
I have had to change from mutt to evolution and I have tow things that
are driving me crazy:
1. On each line of the display of mail messages there are three columns
called: status, attachment and flagged. I am unclear what two of them
mean. I assume attachment indicates that there is an attachment on the
message. I am guessing that status is read or unread. What does flagged
do and how is it used?
2. Awhile ago someone indicated that evolution has a feature that is
called bounce in mutt. What it means is to transfer the message to
another address just as it was delivered to me. Same header and
everything. I can not find that feature. Where is it?
--
Aaron Konstam
(210) 656-0355
akonstam(a)sbxglobal.net
18 years
FC5: Slow USB disk due to sync mode
by jery_wang
Hi all,
After updating my FC4 installation to FC5, I noticed that my external 230GB USB hard disk became very slow. It also became quite noisy since the disk heads were moving all the time, even if there were only small amounts of data being written to the disk. It took me a while to find out what happens:
The USB drive is mounted automatically in asnyc mode. Looking at /etc/mtab, I can see the following entries for the 3 partitions on the disc:
/dev/sdb1 /media/lin1 ext3 rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sdb2 /media/win1 vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uid=500,utf8,shortname=lower 0 0
/dev/sdb3 /media/lin3 ext3 rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,data=ordered 0 0
I can fix the problem by remounting the partitions manually, e.g.
mount -o remount,async /dev/sdb1
but it is quite annoying to do this every time I plug in the drive.
My Questions:
* Is this common behaviour in FC5 or due to some misconfiguration in my system?
* Shouldn't this be treated as a bug?
* What is the best workaround? (I am using KDE, if that matters)
I was searching the web for answers. The closest match to my problem was a bug report for Ubuntu from 2004:
https://bugzilla.ubuntulinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2386
Here the problem was due to a bug in pmount and eventually fixed.
Thanks,
Rainer
--
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http://fcp.homelinux.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=83158&topic_...
18 years
FC5 audio disk access as root.
by Aaron Konstam
On my FC5 machine audio disks when inserted in the drive appear on
desktop. As an ordinary user they are played by the appropriate
application. As root, however, even thought the icon appears on the
desktop neither totem not gnome-CD can find the CD.
Since these CD-s no longer are mounted in the usual way I don't know
where to look for the problem. Does someone have nay ideas?
--
Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net>
18 years
