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Producing pdf files with copyable text
by Paul Smith 12 Aug '07

12 Aug '07

Dear All To get a pdf file with the contents of a web-page, I produce a ps file and then I use ps2pdf. However, no text can be copied from the resulting pdf file. Is there other way of producing a pdf file with copyable text? Thanks in advance, Paul

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VirtualBox and tunctl on Fedora Core 6
by Valent Turkovic 11 Aug '07

11 Aug '07

Hi, I installed VirtualBox GPL virtualization server. In order for getting networking working inbound you need tunctl utility found in "uml-utilities". I can't find "uml-utilities" not "tunctl" for Fedora Core 6. Please also look at this page: http://vbox.innotek.de/pipermail/vbox-users/2007-January/000364.html There is only one suggestion for FC4 rpm package. Where can I find RPM package for uml-utilities and why aren't they in Fedora repositories? Thank you. Valent. -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241 Skype: valent.turkovic

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Re: Really REALLY slow computer
by Steve Blackwell 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote > Sometimes machines run slowly due to being swamped by unhandled > interrupts. It would be interesting to monitor /proc/interrupts to > see if this is happening. I don't know what I'm looking for but there are 2 things that I noticed about the contents of the /proc/interrupts file: 1. when I typed 'cat /proc/interrupts' I got a message saying something like 'file not terminated correctly'. I don't remember the exact wording. It looks like a few characters and the end-of-line are missing. I'm guessing that this is no big deal and that cat read the file in the middle of an update. 2. The LOC line has some large numbers; ~1500000 for each processor. This is immediately after boot up, (Immediate isn't the right word as it takes ~45mins to boot and log in) Is this normal? I have updated to FC7T4 and I am now running the 2.6.21-1.3116 kernel which someone suggested would correct the problem but it did not. I have also tried with acpi=off as a kernel option but that didn't change anything either. HP dc7700p, 2G RAM, 2x250G Steve

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Re: really REALLY slow computer
by Steve Blackwell 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >>> This is immediately after boot up, (Immediate isn't the right >>> word as it takes ~45mins to boot and log in) Is this normal? >>> Forty-five minutes? NO! >> >> Yup, 45 mins! >> >> It starts to boot OK but really bogs down when it gets to INIT and then >> udev times out which takes about 10mins. I was hoping the 2.6.21 kernel >> was going to help but it did not. Everything seems to function OK when >> it finally boots but it juuussssttt ttttoooo ssslllooowwww. AAAAGGGGHHHH! >> >Is there anything in the logs about timeouts during boot? >/var/log/dmesg may have some clues... Nothing about timeouts. Here are a few things from dmesg that might be of interest. ... checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 3470k freed apm: BIOS not found. audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) ... ACPI Exception (processor_core-0783): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20070126] ACPI Exception (processor_core-0783): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20070126] ... SELinux: initialized (dev securityfs, type securityfs), not configured for labeling audit(1178194702.785:4): avc: denied { mount } for pid=955 comm="modprobe" name="/" dev=securityfs ino=5875 scontext=system_u:system_r:insmod_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 tclass=filesystem ... Steve

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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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"Error while initializing sound driver": 2 out of 4 restarts.
by A.J. Bonnema 26 Jul '07

26 Jul '07

Hi All, Running Fedora Core 6 (updated) I run into regular sound problems. I would be very grateful if someone could point me in the right direction. I include as much information as I can below. If you need anything else, please specify. I am quite willing to try different things, but I have no idea ===== Symptom ====== Every time I restart the machine I have to wait whether I can play my music or not. 2 out of 4 times I get the above error message, complete it is: === Error message ==== " Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device: default can't be opened for playback (No such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. " I get this message in a window after KDE starts. ======= Device ============= When I then start (from the GUI) the menu options "Administration/Soundcard Detection" I can see the chip is being detected (nvidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller, module snd-intel8x0), but the PCM device is empty (in both tabs "Sound test" and "settings"). ========== Sound log file ============ Under the tab "System" I can push a button called "Generate sound log file /root/scsconfig.log". I included this file as attachment. If this doesn't work I will send a second mail containing the contents (but it is a large file....). I am running Fedora core 6, updated to the current version. Can someone point me in the right direction? Guus. -- A.J. Bonnema, Leiden The Netherlands, user #328198 (Linux Counter http://counter.li.org)

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Re: FC6 kernels & 4GB of memory
by Darryl 22 Jul '07

22 Jul '07

Quoting "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" >To see your memory layout check /proc/mtrr. Ok, this is from 32bit PAE kernel: $ cat /proc/mtrr reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1 reg01: base=0x80000000 (2048MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1 reg02: base=0xc0000000 (3072MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1 reg03: base=0xd0000000 (3328MB), size= 128MB: write-combining, count=1 > reset to factory "optimized" settings. Did that after the last BIOS update. > select mtrr discontinuous (was contigious) That option disappeared with a BIOS update actually. a new one popped up regarding Virtual stuff though. > select mtrr hardware mapping (was disabled) > select iommu 128k (was disabled) BIOS doesn't have those options. I tried downloading the latest/greatest 2.6.21 kernel and compiling my own 32bit "PAE" & "regular" kernels but they did the same thing. "regular" sees all the memory but tells me to use a PAE kernel and "PAE" won't use all the memory and crashes on boot without mem=4095m. A little frustrating since the "regular" kernel and memtest86 see all the memory. The good news is that the on-board NIC is natively supported in .21 though :-/

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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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FC LDAP server
by Chris 26 Jun '07

26 Jun '07

Forgive my ignorance on this topic - I would like to build an LDAP server at our shop. We a native 2k3 domain and would like this FC LDAP server to pull in all the info from AD. Then periodically, have the FC server sync with new addition/subtractions of AD. Is there a How-To out there somewhere that someone can point me to? I don't want to recreate the wheel by hand-inputing information into the FC LDAP server. TIA and thanks for the patience and understanding. -- Best regards, Chris Motorized vehicles only.

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