Niced applications
by Rob Brown-Bayliss
Hi,
How can I get X to run with a negative nice value automatically, and
also how can I make certian applications run niced for normal users?
The problem I am having is watching Videos in xine or mplayer, or tv
with tvtime and am getting glitches in the video from back ground
apps.
--
Rob
17 years, 10 months
DVD burning -- correct syntax?
by Chong Yu Meng
Hi all,
I need help with the command for burning DVDs on Fedora Core. After
struggling for a while, I now have 3 lovely coasters and I am down to my
last 3 DVD discs, so I am hoping to get this right within 3 tries.
First, a little background: I'm trying to transfer the data contents
(not movies or music) of 2 directories, containing rsync'ed extras and
updates for FC5 to DVD so I can bring it to Hong Kong to prepare a
server there.
Here's what I did:
1. First, I made an ISO file:
$ mkisofs -v -l -r -max-iso9660-filenames -no-bak -o
updates.iso /tmp/x86_64
2. Next, I mount it loopback and check, and the filenames look OK to
me.
$ sudo mount -o loop updates.iso /mnt/tempimage
3. Then I burn to DVD with this command:
$ sudo growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=updates.iso
Here's the problem: when I read the resulting DVD in Windows, I get all
the filenames in uppercase, and some are conflated. When I read the DVD
in Linux, it looks right too, but when I try to copy the files to the
hard disk, I get "Input/output errors" for some files. I suspect it
could be because the filenames are too long.
So here's my question: could somebody give me the correct syntax for
burning the files to DVD using growisofs?
I would prefer not to use the graphical tools, because I will need to
use the same command for backup to DVDs in future.
Thanks in advance !
--
Pascal Chong
email: chongym(a)cymulacrum.net
web: http://cymulacrum.net
pgp: http://cymulacrum.net/pgp/cymulacrum.asc
"La science ne connaît pas de frontière parce que la connaissance
appartient à l’humanité. et que c’est la flamme qui illumine le monde."
-- Louis Pasteur
17 years, 10 months
Save Alsa Output as file
by Steven Pasternak
Hi! Is it possible to save the output from alsa to a sound (wav,mp3,ogg)
file? If so, how?
Thanks!
-Steven
17 years, 10 months
kmod-nvidia for non-standard fedora kernel?
by Terry Snyder
I am using the 16k stack size kernel from Linuxant because of the my
wireless network card. I have everything working but when I used the
default kernels from fedora I could use the kmod-nvidia from livina worked
like a charm, but now I would like the same for this 16k kernel. Where or
how can I create one for this kernel. I can't play any videos on the 16k
kernel mplayer says there isn't any resources for the video driver to play
the video.
--
Terry Snyder Jr
Computer Support Specialist
http://www.personal.psu.edu/tes215
Linux (Red Hat, Fedora Core), Windows, Mac
Fedora Core 5 3 users, load average: 0.19, 0.30, 0.28
17 years, 10 months
FC4 yum update problem
by Anne Wilson
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released
I waited a good while, in case it was a mirror problem. Surely FC4 updates
hasn't been changed yet? I wasn't expecting a change before FC6 release
date.
I first saw the error around 10:30 today, but it's still there.
Anne
17 years, 10 months
Re: developing using the firefox engine
by Scott R. Godin
On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 12:00 -0400, fedora-list-request(a)redhat.com wrote:
> On 01/07/06, bruce <bedouglas(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
> > hi...
> >
> > i've been trying (unsuccessfully) to parse/process html files. i'm
> almost
> > certain that the issue has to do with the fact that the html is not
> valaid
> > html.. running the html through various apps "tidy/html
> validator/etc..."
> > complain with warnings.
>
> I have been having a similar problem with html, though this time the
> guilty party is mshtml. That piece of dog vomit *can not be made* to
> produce xhtml!!! I get the pseudo-html from mshtml, run it through
> sgmlreader+converter class and get (x)html out. I can then parse +
> process the file with standard xml/xsl tools. It took me an age to
> find good things for .net though - you shouldn't have nearly as many
> problems on linux/fedora.
> I suggest you pass it through tidy and get xhtml out. It may give you
> some junk but you don't really have many other options...
> Cheers
> Antoine
I think you're far better off avoiding XHTML entirely unless there's
some specific reason (MathML and the like) that *requires* that you have
it.
If you are simply desirous of strictness, you're far better off using
HTML 4.01 Strict, and doing it correctly, validating with the w3.org
validators for HTML and CSS.
Internet Explorer (by far the most prevalent browser) neither in the
current incarnation NOR in the version 7 forthcoming, understand XHTML
properly, instead being forced to parse it as if it were HTML (i.e.
serving it as text/html instead of application/xhtml+xml) tag-soup.
You might as well be handing it doctypeless html 3.2 tag soup from 1995
for all the good passing XHTML as text/html is doing you.
IE6 and IE7 _do not understand XHTML_. Period. There are NO plans for
incorporating an XHTML/XML parser into IE version 7.
If you're having to tell IE that, no it's not really xhtml, it's
text/html, then I have to ask one simple question:
"Where is the benefit?"
use HTML 4.01 Strict. EVERYTHING understands it. It's still "strict".
You don't need ridiculous CDATA comment escapes to comment out inline
css/javascript.
for further details read carefully the document at
http://hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml also note
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3236.txt
It's additionally curious to note that Appendix C of the XHTML rfc
states "Note that this recommendation does not define how HTML
conforming user agents should process HTML documents. Nor does it define
the meaning of the Internet Media Type text/html. For these definitions,
see [HTML4] <http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#ref-html4> and [RFC2854]
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#ref-rfc2854> respectively."
And RFC 2854 says that XHTML 1.0 defines a profile of XHTML that may be
served as text/html. So, its not very clear. And one reading is that
nothing actually authorises any version of XHTML 1.0 to be served as
text/html!
17 years, 10 months
Hardware Migration with FC4
by Rodrigo F. Rogerio
I hope someone may be able to give me an Idea in what to do here, I have
a web server that was installed originally on a dual P3 with IDE drives,
I am trying to transferred to a VM on a GSX server and everything worked
well and good. Same specifications "sort of" smp with IDE drives.
My problem now is... I am trying to move this machine to a VM on a ESX
server with SCSI drives because ESX won't create IDE hard disks, I've
fixed the boot loader and everything but I receive this message every
time I try to boot.
----------(message begins)-------------------------------------
Creating root device
Mkrootdev: label / not found
Mounting root filesystem
Mount: error 2 mounting ext3
Mount: error 2 mounting none
Switching to new root
Switchroot: mount failed: 22
Unount /initrd/dev failed: 2
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempt to kill init!
[<c0121345>] panic+0x42/0x1ca
[<c01224b1>] profile_task_exit+0x31/045
[<c012343d>] do_exit+0x252/0x35a
[<c0124375>] next_thread+0x0/0xc
[<c0103ff9>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
---------(message ends)----------------------------------------
Thank you in advance for any tips or help with this.
---------------------------------------------------------------
Rodrigo F. Rogerio | Sr. Systems Administrator
Grove Networks Inc.
Apple | Microsoft | Linux | Web Design | VOIP
P: 305.448.6126 x104 | C: 305.553.4702
rrogerio(a)grovenetworks.com
17 years, 10 months
100% disk space on boot is in use?
by Heikki Pesonen
My firs attempt to install Linux to my computer failed totally. After
it I had to reinstall all. The first Linux was Fedora core 3 or 4.
After trying other distros I recently installed Fedora Core 5 which I
like very much. It's slick (very fast) and looks nice.
But every time I start Fedora a message appears: "100% disk space on
boot is in use". Does that be a problem in the future?
Recently I have three hard disks on my computer as you can see:
[code]
[root@localhost fossiili]# /sbin/fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 1 8001 8e Linux LVM
/dev/hda2 2 4358 34997602+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda3 * 4359 9729 43142557+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda5 2 4358 34997571 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/hdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 14 19457 156183930 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/sda: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 255 2048256 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda2 256 14946 118005457+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/dm-0: 157.8 GB, 157806493696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19185 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/dm-1: 2080 MB, 2080374784 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 252 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
[/CODE]
hda and sda are used by Windows, except hda1 which is a souvenir from
my last trip to Fedora Core world , what to do with hda1?
hdb is a large disk 160 GB and allocated for Linuxes. There were some
partitions which I had thought for Fedora's use. Unfortunately I was
frighten while installing Fedora because I remember the previous
Fedora installation. I did not find the way to get partition manager
to do what I wanted so I gave all hdb to Fedora. The installation
seemed to proceed well, but after it I could not start neither Fedora
nor Windows. Fortunately I could repair Windows installation and also
the Grub, thanks to good advice from different countries.
I know, that LVM makes me possible to change logical volumes but not
just the one were /boot is residing. I am not very keen on installing
Fedora again, but is there any other possibility?
Is it possible to repartition hdb in Fedora so that I could install an
other distro also to hdb?
17 years, 10 months
missing nfs-utils dependencies in latest FC5 update
by Robert P. J. Day
# yum update
...
Error: Missing Dependency: librpcsecgss.so.1 is needed by package nfs-utils
Error: Missing Dependency: libgssapi.so.1 is needed by package nfs-utils
but, as an example, while the actual file is there:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Apr 8 13:44 /usr/lib/libgssapi.so.1 -> libgssapi.so.1.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30896 Feb 11 19:40 /usr/lib/libgssapi.so.1.0.0
it's part of an earlier-versioned package:
# rpm -qf /usr/lib/libgssapi.so.1.0.0
libgssapi-0.7-2.1
which i assume is what's causing the problem. so what's the proper
solution?
rday
17 years, 10 months
Need workaround for yum update problem
by Gilbert Sebenste
Hello all,
I hope everyone is doing well. I have a problem. I am using the
"updates-testing" repo. A number of packages in there are ones I find
useful. But, over the last few weeks, when I do a yum -y update, it fails
with:
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package nfs-utils-lib.i386 0:1.0.8-4.FC5 set to be updated
---> Package libgssapi.i386 0:0.9-1.FC5 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: librpcsecgss.so.1 for package: nfs-utils
--> Processing Dependency: libgssapi.so.1 for package: nfs-utils
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: librpcsecgss.so.1 is needed by package
nfs-utils
Error: Missing Dependency: libgssapi.so.1 is needed by package nfs-utils
I tried to do a "yum install libgssapi", but that doesn't work (already
installed). If I try to exclude packages, I believe yum will only let me
do one. So, if I tell it to ignore nfs-utils lib, then it still fails
because it couldn't find libgssapi. If I try to exclude libgssapi,
nfs-utils croaks, of course. So...what to do?
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Gilbert Sebenste ********
(My opinions only!) ******
Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University ****
E-mail: sebenste(a)weather.admin.niu.edu ***
web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu **
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17 years, 10 months
