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Package Updater FC5
by Caser 02 May '06

02 May '06

hi to all, way is the Package Updater have to download more then 40 to ....(its not stopping ) to retrieve update information it used to be so fast maybe its about the yum.repos.d i have the fowling: crash-hat.repo didier.repo dries.repo fedora-core.repo fedora-development.repo fedora-extras.repo fedora-extras-development.repo fedora-legacy.repo fedora-updates.repo fedora-updates-testing.repo freshrpms.repo kernels.repo kernels.repo.1 livna.repo livna-devel.repo livna-testing.repo macromedia.repo macromedia-i386.repo any advice is really appreciated!!!

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RE: Laptop Display Problems
by Annette T Robart 02 May '06

02 May '06

Rather than download individual files, set up bittorrent (http://www.bittorrent.com/) and use it to pull in either the CD-ROM images or a DVD image. (I prefer the DVD images, but you may not.) It will take a while, but the nice thing about bittorrent is that it has redundancy; should your connection go down it will pick up where it left off. Also, you can throttle it if need be. Do expect at least a day for the download, though. You may burn the images. If you have an extant Linux installation, look for k3b or xcdroast. If you aren't sure what to do, let us know which program you have; someone here should be able to walk you through. Be sure to burn the images as images, not as one monster file in a new image. You may also use the images to perform a network installation by setting up another box as a local yum repository (my preferred method; http://www.charlescurley.com/yum.html) It's more work to set up but pays off in ease of upgrades and updates later on. And there are vendors out there from whom you can buy CDs (and probably DVDs by now). cheapbytes.com is one; others exist. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB Thanks for all the advice! I will download bittorrent and give it a try.

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FC5: graphical install problem
by Dario Lesca 02 May '06

02 May '06

I am trying to install FC-5, on a system whit a Intel 82865 MB, but X won't start for graphical install. The screen is black and the keyboard not respond (CTRL+ALT+F2 do not switch) The lspci command, run from rescue boot section, show this output: > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02) > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) > 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) > 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) > 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) > 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) > 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) > 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2) > 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02) > 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02) > 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02) > 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) > 01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) Is this a know problem? there is a bypass, beyond the "linux text" mode? Many thanks -- Dario Lesca <d.lesca(a)solinos.it>

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LDAP package with mysql backend
by chuck clark 02 May '06

02 May '06

Hello, Is there a LDAP with mysql backend package? I want a unified contacts database and want to tie it in with ldap. Any help is appreciated, chuck

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fedora-ds install ---> System message bus trashed
by A.J. Bonnema 02 May '06

02 May '06

Hi all, I wanted to tryout the fedora ds (directory server) of Redhat and went to the redhat site for explanations. So I downloaded the FC5 version and installed it. After that I used setup from the /opt/fedora-ds/setup directory to configure fds. Now two things happened: 1. I configured LDAP for authorization, my normal user (not root) got locked out. 2. So I reconfigured so that LDAP was only used for info and when logging on as a normal user I got the message from GNOME that the system bus was not running and needed to be started. 3. So I restarted. 4. Now I can not boot into FC5, because the startup hangs when "starting System Message Bus". Does anyone know what I did wrong? Or what I can do to rectify the misstake I made? Or maybe how to diagnose what is wrong? Also how do you change the settings for the system message bus? Finally, I wonder why this package is no part of Fedora Extras? Guus. A.J. Bonnema -- Writing from XP, because my FC5 is down So my signature is also hidden from view.

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Where is it mounted?
by WipeOut 02 May '06

02 May '06

Hi, Priors to FC5 I mounted my Samba shares using the fstab file.. Now on my new FC5 install I have used the "Places" menu, using "Network Servers" and "Connect to Server" options.. So far its all been great.. Today I needed to use GFTP to connect to a server and upload some files that are stored on my Samba server.. Before I would find the mount points under /mnt (where I set them to be).. Where are they now? I can't seem to find where the Samba shares are mounted into the local file system.. Anyone have any pointers? Thanks..

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Screen resolution problem
by Jamie Bohr 02 May '06

02 May '06

I recently upgraded by laptop from Fedora 3 to Fedora 5. Nice work to the developers. Of course there are a few things I need to iron out .... system-config-display does not save my setting when I select a dual head configuration, is any one else seeing this? I get the following when I run it from the command prompt: $ sudo /usr/bin/system-config-display in hydrate_second Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xConfigDialog.py", line 136, in ok lower_vrefresh, upper_vrefresh = string.split(str( self.second_monitor_vrefresh), "-") ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xConfigDialog.py", line 136, in ok lower_vrefresh, upper_vrefresh = string.split(str( self.second_monitor_vrefresh), "-") ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack $ When I press okay I do not get the message about it saving the old configutation nor does the file change. Should I file a bug report? -- Jamie Bohr

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Re: New mail list for package announcements.
by Karsten Wade 02 May '06

02 May '06

On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 13:30 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > As we continue to integrate Fedora subprojects into the main Fedora > infrastructure, the need for a common point of package update > information became clear. At the same time, it became clear that > fedora-announce was not the proper place for this. To resolve these > issues, we've created 'fedora-package-announce(a)redhat.com' email list. Is this effective immediately? In other words, was the libstdc++so7-4.2.0-0.3.20060203.3 update on Friday the last update announcement coming to fedora-announce-list? Or is there a cut-over time? Perhaps best would be to continue posting to f-announce-l and cross-post to f-package-announce for another week? Give people time to sign up before stopping their the package announcement feed? - Karsten > This list will serve as an announcement point for package announcements > for potentially all Fedora sub-projects. If you would like to receive > announcements of package updates, you will need to subscribe to this > list: > > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce > > Because this list can be used by many subprojects, we will be setting up > filters that can be used to allow users to only get announcements they > care about. Currently we have filters setup for Fedora Core 3, 4, and 5 > package announcements. These announcements are the only ones that will > currently be sent to this list, however Fedora Extras and Fedora Legacy > could begin sending soon, and we will setup filters for their > announcements as well. When you first subscribe, you will receive all > announcements made. You can use the membership configuration screen to > adjust what announcements you wish to get. These options are near the > bottom of the configuration list. > > As some package announcements have already gone to this list, please > check the archives if you think you've missed something. The archives > can be found here: > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/ > > fedora-announce-list will continue to be used for important > announcements regarding the Fedora project, such as Core releases and > test releases, Fedora News updates, messages from Max and the board, > etc... It will just no longer get package update mails. > > We're sorry for the inconvenience of having users subscribe on their > own, but mass subscribing users to a list without their explicit consent > could be considered spam. This is obviously something we would rather > not do. > > -- > fedora-announce-list mailing list > fedora-announce-list(a)redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list -- Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Editor * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41 Fedora Documentation Project http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject Learn. Network. Experience open source. Red Hat Summit Nashville | May 30 - June 2, 2006 Learn more: http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/

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Getting older kernels...
by patrick 02 May '06

02 May '06

I'm wondering if it's possible to get older versions of kernels anywhere? Specifically, I'm looking for and i386 version of 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4. I have some machines that worked best with this particular kernel, and I sadly do not have it anymore (I had to reinstall, and this kernel wasn't the most recent when I did a "yum update".) All of the more recent kernels I've tried seem to cause the machine to eventually freeze when left running. Patrick

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how to run script after suspend to disk
by Petr Fischer 02 May '06

02 May '06

Hi, how to run my own script when starting from "hibernate" mode? (I need to restart squid and correct centrino-voltages and fan speeds). rc.local is called on "regular starting" only, right? Thanks, pf

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