The KDE-SIG needs (your) help
by Sebastian Vahl
This is a request for participation:
The KDE-SIG [1] is atm lacking active contributors. And we really need some
help in doing our job to provide a good KDE version in Fedora - especially
with the upcoming KDE 4.0 and the inclusion in Fedora 9.
If you don't know how you could help us here is a list (which is also in the
wiki):
* Packagers: There are so many interesting packages that are not yet packaged
for Fedora. Package it to improve the user experience.
* Reviewers: Only a few persons are doing the kde-related reviews. Help us
reviewing so that more packages could be included.
* Testers: If you love KDE use the development version or the updates-testing
repository and report bugs, bugs, bugs, request enhancements or features. We
need your feedback to improve KDE.
* Bugs: Become a BugZapper and help us with kde-related bugs.
* Documentation writers: The documentation (esp. the DesktopUserGuide) is
GNOME-centered. Help us to provide an equivalent for KDE.
* Release Notes: The few people that are working on the new KDE-Spin are quite
busy with development issues. If you want to help us in writing the release
notes for the next version of Fedora we would give you all the info you need.
* Wiki: Maintain http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KDE and keep it updated with
end user information.
* Artists: To provide a matching theme for nodoka-metacity-theme and provide
an unified desktop experience.
But this is not a complete list. If you're interested in making KDE in Fedora
better, you're more than welcome.
The list of participants in the wiki is atm not a list of active contributors.
When setting up the wiki the only demand was an interest in KDE to be listed
on this page. This list would be changed in the future to be culled down to
the list of active (or reactivated) participants. This has become necessarely
because there are only (less or more) 3 active contributors atm (plus Than
Ngo). But the list indicates that there are enough people helping with KDE.
If you are interested in joining the KDE-SIG please add your name to this
list, answer to this mail, join us in #fedora-kde at freenode or attend the
weekly KDE-SIG-Meetings (every tuesday 17:00 UTC). I will also add a topic to
the agenda of the meeting next week to introduce new contributors. [2]
The attendance at the SIG-Meetings is of course not required. But this way we
would know of each other. And they are also the main place of discussing the
next steps in the development (besides fedora-devel-list).
If you have any further questions please answer to this mail or write me
directly. And be sure: If your are willing to help you're welcome (regardless
of your skills). :)
Sebastian
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2007-11-06
16 years, 5 months
FC7 Hangs
by Ragavendra
hi,
The FC7 hangs very frequently. I 1st thought that it could be due to
the SB16 sound card I have. Now it doesn't seem to be so. as soon as
FC7 boots up when I open the menu it hangs. Out of 10 atleast 8 times
a hard shutdown/ reboot has to be done.
--
Take Care,
Regards,
Ragavendra.
16 years, 5 months
What are these root directories for?
by Chris G
On my Fedora 7 system I have the following root directories which seem
to have no purpose. As I always wanting to remove distracting
'clutter' I'd like to remove them if it's safe to do so but I don't
want to break anything. They are:-
/misc
/net
There's also /srv which just has a bittorrent sub-directory in it, if
I don't use bittorrent (which I don't) can I remove that too?
--
Chris Green
16 years, 5 months
What use are these (rpm) entries in 'man'?
by Chris G
When I do a "man -k <xxxx>" on my Fedora 7 system to search for
documentation about something I get quite a few responses which have
"(rpm)" as the manual section. These seem to be of little use becuase
there isn't an actual corresponding man page as far as I can see.
For example if I say "man -k doc" (not a very sensible idea given the
amount of output it generates!) at the end of the list I see:-
tiff2pdf (1) - convert a TIFF image to a PDF document ugetrlimit [undocumented] (2) - undocumented system calls
xml2po (1) - program to create a PO-template file from a DocBook XML file and merge it back into a (translated) XML file
xmlwf (1) - Determines if an XML document is well-formed
xorg-x11-docs (rpm) - X.Org X11 documentation
yelp (rpm) - A system documentation reader from the Gnome project
Now "man tiff2pdf", "man xml2po" and "man xmlwf" produce some useful
(?) output but "man xorg-x11-docs" and "man yelp" just say "No manual
entry for <xxxx>".
So what is the point of these (rpm) entries? Do they somehow indicate
that there is some sort of documentation there, if so how do I get at
it?
--
Chris Green
16 years, 5 months
How to pass audio via HDMI (Fedora 7)
by Andrew Junev
Hello All,
I was going to use HDMI to transfer sound as well as video to my SONY
LCD TV. The problem is that I don't really know how to do it.
My video adapter (ASUS EN8600GT/HTDI) has an SPDIF-in connector to
pass the audio stream through HDMI interface. I connected my
motherboard's SPDIF-out to this one.
Then I un-muted 'IEC958' as described here:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Configuring_Digital_Sound_with_AC3_a...
But all my attempts to play any audio file gave me no sound. Is there
anything else I need to do?
My TV accepts "Two channel linear PCM; 32, 44.1 and 48 kHz; 16, 20 and
24 bits" audio over HDMI input.
When I'm trying to play back a file via mplayer it says the audio
stream is 2-channel, 48000Hz PCM. So it should be fine... But I still
get no sound.
What else could be wrong?
My motherboard has one internal and one external S/PDIF output. I
don't think there is a difference between them, but the internal one
is connected to the video card. I read the manual but it said nothing
about configuration of the S/PDIF in terms of which one to use. So I
assume both outputs should work at the same time... But I might be
wrong here.
I would appreciate any help!
--
Best regards,
Andrew
16 years, 5 months
Re: [OT] Digital camara
by John Schmitt
I have no experience with the Lumix so I can't help you there except to point to what might be The. Best. Review. Site. Ever.
http://www.dpreview.com/
I wish a bicycle, car, computer etc review site as good as theirs existed.
In general I agree with you that I'd rather go for better optics than a couple more megapixels. I've always gone canon and I like this one for optics+megapixels for your dollar: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Canon/canon_a720is.asp
Good luck. To bring this to back on topic, doesn't digikam totally rawk?
John
PS Part of my reason for replying is that I'm hoping that Santa Clause is listening.
----- Original Message ----
From: Martin Marques <martin(a)bugs.unl.edu.ar>
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 4, 2007 6:50:12 PM
Subject: [OT] Digital camara
Hi all, sorry for the OT, but as many people here have more knowledge
then me on this topic I'll just ask.
I'm about to by a digital camara and I was looking at a Panasonic Lumix
with 5MP and 6x optical zoom.
I tend to see the 6x zoom more interesting then having 7 or more MP,
but
I'd like to know if I should go for more MP or stay with the good zoom.
Once againg, sorry for the OT.
16 years, 5 months
Hey wow - suspend works [fc6/T20]
by Michael A. Peters
suspend never worked properly for me (fc6 thinkpad t20) - I have no idea
when it started working as I haven't tried it in awhile, but just today
I found out - quite by accident - it seems that whatever was broken has
been fixed :D
Thanks to whomever fixed it :)
16 years, 5 months
grubby
by fuzzie1300
How do I use grubby to set a kernel to boot once then reset to another
kernel?
Previously I did this on FC 5:
echo "savedefault --default=1 --once quit" | grub
grub.conf:
default saved
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title FC (2.6.18-1.2239.fc5smp)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5smp ro root=/dev/rootvg/rootlv01
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5smp.img
savedefault
title Power Off
savedefault --default=0
halt
16 years, 5 months
Cannot login after yum update
by Stephen Pusey
I am not sure if this is the right forum - but would appreciate help. I did a yum update on November 1st using a development Fedora 8. After this I rebooted the machine (a leased server) and could not ssh as root. I could access the site via webmin and by "re-enabling" the users I could then start ssh and other services. I then rebooted and found that I could not login with either ssh or with webmin. I currently have the server mounted through a gentoo CD. However, I am stumped. I think the issue may be with pamd - but everything looks fine. I also suspect xinetd. Looking at the messages logs I see a EXT-fs check was forced on the disk on a reboot. I have also run e2fsck from the cdrom on the unmounted disk and it is clean.
Below I attach a list of what yum did. and also a tail of the secure log as well as messages log.
I would be grateful for your advice.
yum.log
------
Nov 01 22:20:52 Updated: logrotate.i386 3.7.6-1.3.fc8
Nov 01 22:20:53 Updated: rpm.i386 4.4.2.2-3.fc8
Nov 01 22:20:54 Updated: perl-Digest-SHA1.i386 2.11-4.fc8
Nov 01 22:20:54 Installed: dbus-libs.i386 1.1.2-7.fc8
Nov 01 22:20:54 Updated: perl-Digest-HMAC.noarch 1.01-16
Nov 01 22:20:55 Updated: perl-Net-SSLeay.i386 1.30-5.fc8.1
Nov 01 22:20:55 Updated: openldap.i386 2.3.38-3.fc8
Nov 01 22:20:55 Updated: perl-URI.noarch 1.35-3.1
Nov 01 22:20:56 Updated: perl-Net-IP.noarch 1.25-4.fc8
Nov 01 22:20:56 Updated: perl-Net-DNS.i386 0.61-1.fc8
Nov 01 22:20:57 Updated: dbus.i386 1.1.2-7.fc8
Nov 01 22:20:57 Updated: ConsoleKit-libs.i386 0.2.3-1.fc8
Nov 01 22:20:59 Installed: util-linux-ng.i386 2.13-3.fc8
Nov 01 22:21:00 Updated: gnupg.i386 1.4.7-7
Nov 01 22:21:01 Updated: perl-IO-Socket-SSL.noarch 1.02-1.fc8.1
Nov 01 22:21:01 Updated: rsyslog.i386 1.19.6-3.fc8
Nov 01 22:21:02 Installed: sysvinit.i386 2.86-18
Nov 01 22:21:03 Updated: module-init-tools.i386 3.4-2.fc8
Nov 01 22:21:10 Updated: initscripts.i386 8.60-1
Nov 01 22:21:19 Updated: udev.i386 116-3.fc8
Nov 01 22:21:19 Installed: perl-IO-Compress-Base.noarch 2.005-2.fc8
Nov 01 22:21:19 Updated: perl-Socket6.i386 0.19-4.fc8.1
Nov 01 22:21:20 Updated: perl-IO-Socket-INET6.noarch 2.51-2.fc8.1
Nov 01 22:21:20 Installed: perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib.i386 2.005-3.fc8
Nov 01 22:21:20 Updated: perl-HTML-Tagset.noarch 3.10-6.fc8
Nov 01 22:21:20 Updated: perl-HTML-Parser.i386 3.56-2.fc8
Nov 01 22:21:21 Updated: perl-libs.i386 4:5.8.8-30.fc8
Nov 01 22:21:21 Installed: perl-IO-Compress-Zlib.noarch 2.005-2.fc8
Nov 01 22:21:22 Updated: perl-Compress-Zlib.noarch 2.005-2.fc8
Nov 01 22:21:22 Updated: perl-IO-Zlib.noarch 1.07-1
Nov 01 22:21:22 Updated: perl-Archive-Tar.noarch 1.34-1.fc8
Nov 01 22:21:23 Updated: perl-libwww-perl.noarch 5.808-3.fc8
Nov 01 22:21:23 Updated: mcstrans.i386 0.2.7-1.fc8
Nov 01 22:21:26 Updated: python.i386 2.5.1-15.fc8
Nov 01 22:21:26 Updated: python-libs.i386 2.5.1-15.fc8
Nov 01 22:21:27 Updated: perl-Test-Harness.i386 2.56-30.fc8
Nov 01 22:21:27 Updated: yum-metadata-parser.i386 1.1.2-1.fc8
Nov 01 22:21:27 Updated: rpm-python.i386 4.4.2.2-3.fc8
Nov 01 22:21:27 Updated: python-urlgrabber.noarch 3.0.0-3.fc8
Nov 01 22:21:28 Installed: python-iniparse.noarch 0.2.2-1.fc8
Nov 01 22:21:28 Updated: yum.noarch 3.2.7-1.fc8
Nov 01 22:21:29 Updated: libxml2-python.i386 2.6.30-1
Nov 01 22:21:29 Updated: perl-devel.i386 4:5.8.8-30.fc8
Nov 01 22:21:30 Updated: perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker.i386 6.30-30.fc8
Nov 01 22:21:30 Updated: perl-ExtUtils-Embed.i386 1.26-30.fc8
Nov 01 22:21:30 Updated: perl-CPAN.i386 1.76_02-30.fc8
Nov 01 22:21:32 Updated: spamassassin.i386 3.2.3-2.fc8
Nov 01 22:21:32 Updated: perl-Test-Simple.i386 0.62-30.fc8
Nov 01 22:21:56 Erased: SysVinit
Nov 01 22:22:04 Erased: util-linux
----
secure log
------------
Nov 4 13:17:43 server login: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM (null) FOR root, User not known to the underlying authentication module
Nov 4 13:18:08 server login: pam_unix(login:auth): check pass; user unknown
Nov 4 13:18:08 server login: pam_succeed_if(login:auth): error retrieving information about user root
Nov 4 13:18:10 server login: FAILED LOGIN 2 FROM (null) FOR root, User not known to the underlying authentication module
Nov 4 13:18:18 server login: pam_unix(login:auth): check pass; user unknown
Nov 4 13:18:18 server login: pam_succeed_if(login:auth): error retrieving information about user root
Nov 4 13:18:20 server login: FAILED LOGIN 3 FROM (null) FOR root, User not known to the underlying authentication module
-----------
tail of messages log
---------------------
Nov 4 13:37:59 server xinetd[1265]: Unable to read included directory: /etc/xinetd.d [file=/etc/xinetd.conf] [line=49]
Nov 4 13:37:59 server xinetd[1265]: xinetd Version 2.3.14 started with libwrap loadavg labeled-networking options compiled in
Nov 4 13:37:59 server xinetd[1265]: Started working: 0 available services
Nov 4 13:39:09 server atd: Cannot get uid for root: Unknown error 530
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16 years, 5 months
Updating Firefox
by Aly Dharshi
Hello Folks,
I hope that you are well. Using yum to update firefox to the latest in
F7. I see the following errors:
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.1.5 for package: devhelp
--> Processing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.1.5 for package: yelp
--> Processing Dependency: firefox = 2.0.0.5-1.fc7 for package:
firefox-devel
---> Package firefox.i386 0:2.0.0.8-1.fc7 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
---> Package firefox-devel.i386 0:2.0.0.8-1.fc7 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.1.5 for package: devhelp
--> Processing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.1.5 for package: yelp
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.1.5 is needed by package yelp
Error: Missing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.1.5 is needed by package devhelp
Has anyone seen this same problem where the above mentioned pkgs are
missing from the repos ? Or is it just me ? Thanks.
Cheers,
Aly.
--
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16 years, 5 months
