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Install-no errors-no Fedora
by Mike Adolf 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

Greetings, I just ran the Fedora 6 GUI installer from DVD download. It pretty much did its own thing, not requiring much interface. I don't recall seeing a boot loader MBR choice or question. After rebooting, I expected to see a grub or lilo boot loader, but nothing. It just went directly to Windows. In a second attempt, I selected the drive I installed on as the boot device - got "error loading OS". What do I do now? Did I miss something? Thanks, Mike

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wifi/bcw43xx/ softmac Assert failure/ crashing
by Kim Lux 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

A few weeks ago my wifi went flaky. I didn't need it at the time so I started using a cable connection. About a week ago I wanted wireless again, so I decided to uninstall bcw43xx and install ndiswrapper. To uninstall bcw43xx, I removed disabled the device in system-config-networking and then removed bc243xx with rpm -3. I also did an rmmod. Then I downloaded ndiswrapper and built it and did a make install. Thats as far as I got. I did not set up the wireless device in system-config-network. Anyway, now lately my computer is freezing. If I do an alt-del-f6 and bring up a text terminal, I see the following: Printk: 19 messages suppressed. SoftMAC: Assertion Failed(0) at: net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c:306 ieee80211moftca_wx_get_rate(). How do I fix this ? It appears that bcw43xx isn't uninstalled. Thanks -- Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.

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system-config-display
by Sebastian 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

I use synaptic to download system-config-display. It seems to download and install OK. But when i run it I get the following: [root@localhost ~]# system-config-display Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py", line 22, in ? import gobject ImportError: No module named gobject [root@localhost ~]# uname -a Linux localhost 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 #1 SMP Wed Dec 20 14:51:19 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [root@localhost ~]# python Python 2.4.2 (#3, Jan 31 2007, 17:36:26) [GCC 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-51)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import gobject Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? ImportError: No module named gobject Anyone have any ideas?

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Re: NVU
by Peter Lesterhuis 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

> > Hi, > > I installed NVU on FC6. All seems to work fine. However, when I hit an > > item in the help-menu nothing happens. I'd expect firefox to launch and > > present the webpage. The same happens when I hit the "browse"-button: > > again firefox doesn't launch. > > Googling and searching this list did not provide any clues. > > Maybe it is caused by the rpm, which was not originally built for fc6 > > (but fc4 or 5). Does anyone know how to deal with this ? > > Thanks, > > Peter > > > > > Did you actually install the FC4 or 5 rpm? If so, is it possible to get > the source RPM and build it for FC6 that might fix the problem. > Rebuilding the package from srpm is a possibility indeed, but - I am not a skilled rpm-builder. As a matter of fact I never did this before. However one could give it a try. - Obtaining the srpm is not going to be easy. Thanks for your answer anyway. Peter

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cups broken by update?
by ellis＠spinics.net 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

Anybody else having trouble printing since the last cups update?

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What the H--- is wrong with Firefox Bookmarks
by Jim 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

FC6-x86_64, Firefox-1.5.0.9-3.fc6-i386 I'm using the i386 version of firefox so I can run Flashplayer 9 . Everytime I make a folder in Bookmarks and then shutdown firefox, I also verfie folder is there before shutting down. And then open Firefox the folder I just made is gone. Jim

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replacing files via rpm
by Thomas Widhalm 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! For a project I want to replace some files from packages with my own in some FC6 boxes. I run my own repositories, but all boxes yum updates from the official mirrors. For a test run I want to replace the grub loading pic and the default desktop wallpaper. What way would you suggest? * I could simply create a rpm which contains the new files Pro: simple Con: get's overwritten each time the package containing the original files gets updated * I can find out, which package contains the files and put one with the same name but a higher major release into my own repository. This new one should contain its original contents with just the files replaced I want to. Pro: Can't get "overupdated" Con: May break dependencies * I can create a package containing my new files and new config files, referring to the new files instead of the original ones. Pro: Seems to be a rather "clean" attempt. Con: May get overwritten by updated original packages. Produces lots of work merging my config with the original one of new packages * I could have all boxes syncing to my own repos and include fedora core, extras, livna, etc. every repo which contains packages I want files to be replaced and just replace the files in those packages. Pro: Really, really "clean" attempt Con: lots, lots of work for me and my servers. Any other ideas? Kind regards, Thomas - -- ***************************************************************** * Thomas Widhalm Unix Administrator * * University of Salzburg ITServices (ITS) * * Systems Management Unix Systems * * Hellbrunnerstr. 34 5020 Salzburg, Austria * * widhalmt(a)unix.sbg.ac.at +43/662/8044-6774 * * gpg: 6265BAE6 http://www.users.sbg.ac.at/~widhalmt * ***************************************************************** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF3BMekbjs3GJluuYRArSeAKChk4FwMnM/4/qCWPjqJBllAKf8DQCcCU16 poHixxbp5sY0sufy/1SPuME= =FGmw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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NVU
by Peter Lesterhuis 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

Hi, I installed NVU on FC6. All seems to work fine. However, when I hit an item in the help-menu nothing happens. I'd expect firefox to launch and present the webpage. The same happens when I hit the "browse"-button: again firefox doesn't launch. Googling and searching this list did not provide any clues. Maybe it is caused by the rpm, which was not originally built for fc6 (but fc4 or 5). Does anyone know how to deal with this ? Thanks, Peter

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where did kernel-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 go?
by Jack Howarth 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

I am about to upgrade a FC4 box to FC6 and am greatly concerned about the unstable state of both 2.6.19 kernel releases so far. A second machine running the latest kernel-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6 kernel exhibits strange memory problems and on a third machine the same kernel exhibited major slowdowns after mounting and unmounting external usb drives. I was going to use the same kernel-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 release that seems stable on those FC6 machines when I did the new upgrade. However I don't see the kernel-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 release in the updates directory now for FC6. What is that about? Why would Fedora remove the last stable kernel and leave us with either the original FC6 kernel or 2.6.19? Thanks in advance for any clarifications. Jack

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JAVA issue - Where to find jre-1.5.0_11-fcs.rpm
by Kenn Thyrsted 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

Needing JAVA, i installed SUN-JRE. After some updates it stopped to work. Trying to reinstall doesn't cut it. I've used FC2 for a few years where i successfully installed SUN-JRE And updates didn't wreck it. Now.... Struggling to get java runtime to work, i (successfully?) issued "rpm -e jre-1.5.0_11-fcs" "rpm -e jre-1.5.0_10-fcs" Next step should have been something like: yum install jre-1.5.0_11-fcs But where can i find jre-1.5.0_11-fcs.rpm ?? TIA /Kenn

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