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How to prune out old rpm files from fedora repository?
by Paul Johnson 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

I run a server that has updates of RPMs I build for our lab. The packages directory is getting too big and fat with 10 or 15 versions of some RPMS. I wonder if somebody has a script that can clean out the older versions? Something that cooperates with the createRepo script? pj -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas

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firefox bookmarks
by Richard E Miles 20 Jul '07

20 Jul '07

Is it possible to save the firefox bookmarks so that when I do a clean install of FC4 I can reload them? I tried to cp the bookmarks.html file back into the /home/rmiles/.mozilla/firefox/0qem39dn.default directory but it did not restore them from an earlier saving of this file. It would be nice to be able to reset the bookmarks that I had in FC 3 to the FC 4 firefox. -- Richard E Miles Federal Way WA. USA registered linux user 46097

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How to find total MB of a directory plus all subdirectories
by Nigel Henry 16 Jul '07

16 Jul '07

This is a silly question perhaps. I have my soundfiles in a directory named Sounds Library, this contains many subdirectories, which contain the .wav files. What command can I use to find out the disk space this directory is taking up, including all the files that are in the subdirectories? Nigel.

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Public keys - again.
by Anne Wilson 26 Jun '07

26 Jun '07

Realising that I hadn't installed lshw since I installed FC6, I tried to get it today and came up once again against the public key problem. I'll never get the hang of this :-( I followed the link on freshrpm's web page and saved the file, then ran 'rpm --import path/to/file' which appeared to put it into the right place, but still the package wouldn't install because it said there was no public key. Wondering whether the problem was because something was broken in my repo setup - out of date, perhaps - I removed the repo and reinstalled it. Still no joy. Just what is it that I have forgotten? Anne

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FC6 Cups with Samsung - 1610 laser printer
by Antonio M 24 Jun '07

24 Jun '07

I am using a Samsung ML-1610 laser printer. I am experiencing many problems in printing images either with Eog, Gimp or documents including same images as a openoffice writer document or a PDF document. I can't print my photo (that it is not a real problem as I use an external lab)!!! When I installed the printer (that was working a little bit better with previous versions of Cups) I was compelled to use the GDI driver, as if I try to use Postscript driver I get an internal cups server error.. When I try to print an image i see red light flashing but no printing!!! Any help -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag

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FC6 splix driver fro Samsung ML-1610
by Antonio M 24 Jun '07

24 Jun '07

when I install the printer I get the splix driver as recommended in the ML-1610 drivers but when I try to install I get the message that cannot be used with ML-1610. Any idea??? Tnx -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag

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/dev/mapper and Anaconda install failures (FC6 x86_64)
by Sean Bruno 12 Jun '07

12 Jun '07

I've been wrestling with anaconda this evening on my x86_64 machine. It seems that anaconda (or some other piece of the installer) is forcing /dev/mapper to be created even when I have no RAID devices enabled. I have cleared the 'fake' raid stuff off of my disks from rescue mode(dmraid -E), but with 2 disks installed the installer insists on trying to configure /dev/mapper/mpath0. I see each disk individually if I only have one SATA drive connected at a time. Which seems odd as heck to me, but I can install FC6 and at least send you folks this email this way. Is there a 'nodmraid' option to the installer that I can pass to allow me to see /dev/sda & /dev/sdb instead of the dmraid stuff? What's even stranger is that there appears to be a way to disable dmraid from the GUI screen when you choose to 'remove all partitions', but the option is greyed out?!? Any guidance would be appreciated. Sean

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rdesktop "X Error"
by Stephen Mah 12 Jun '07

12 Jun '07

Used to work in rhel4 u4. I'm on fedora now. X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 78 (X_CreateColormap) Value in failed request: 0x34a Serial number of failed request: 7 Current serial number in output stream: 8 Fedora Core release 6 (Zod) 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:37:32 EDT 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux Name : rdesktop Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 1.4.1 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 4 Build Date: Thu 31 Aug 2006 10:26:15 AM PDT Install Date: Tue 27 Feb 2007 01:57:24 PM PST Build Host: hs20-bc1-6.build.redhat.com btw, how do I get yum updates?

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YUM update dies with confict between poppler-utils and xpdf-utils
by Arch Willingham 25 May '07

25 May '07

I have two machines that are running into a problem when doing a YUM update (or YUMEX or PUP update) when they hit the poppler-utils package. The error is as follows: Transaction Check Error: file /usr/bin/pdftoppm from install of poppler-utils-0.5.4-3.fc6 conflicts with file from package xpdf-utils-3.01-26.fc6 file /usr/share/man/man1/pdftoppm.1.gz from install of poppler-utils-0.5.4-3.fc6 conflicts with file from package xpdf-utils-3.01-26.fc6 Any ideas? Thanks! Arch

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Anyone know what this means?
by Adam Hough 24 May '07

24 May '07

I get this from dmesg running FC5 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5smp. The machine seems to be stable (was crashing very frequently before this kernel in FC). Also yes I know to boot with noapci as a kernel parameter to most likely get rid of this error. I am still curious as to what it means. ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0681): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20060707] ACPI: Getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x2 ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0681): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20060707] ACPI: Getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x3 Also hyperthreading is disabled in the bios as the machine refuses to boot if it is enabled with this kernel and all previous FC5 kernels panic on this machine. Memory is fine also no errors after ~90 hours of memtest86+. The motherboard and processors are new also. -- Adam Hough High Performance Computing ahough(a)lsu.edu

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