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FC 6 Install is stalled
by Stan Dereska 01 Aug '07

01 Aug '07

Sir, After buying a SAM's book and CD from a Microcenter a few days ago, I tried to follow the installation procedure using a CD but my PC failed to recognize an OS (I've erased the hard drive which had Win XP). The book describes an install procedure using a CD from a program called "kickstart" that causes my machine to recognize the CD, I believe. How do I boot up to install FC 6 ? Where can I download kickstart ? I'm new to Unix and Linux . Thanx for your assistance. Regards, Stan Dereska a k a sdereska(a)verizon.net

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Killed /home installing Fedora 7 with Ubuntu
by Dotan Cohen 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

While installing Fedora 7 on a Dell Inspiron laptop previously running Ubuntu, I had corrupted and then erased /home (sda4) by accident. After a failed Fedora install, Ubuntu would not boot. Not knowing what to do, and with no way to boot and google the situation, I played Y, Y, Y to all fsck's questions. Now, /home is empty. I do have a backup from 4 weeks ago, as I backup the first of every month, but I have done quite a bit of work this past month. I'm very interested in recovering the data. More info: This is a Dell Inspiron machine, 2.0GHz dual-core Intel processor, 2GB RAM, 80GB 7000RPM hard drive, ATI X1400 video. The disk is partitioned with sda1: 15GB /; sda2: 15 GB blank (Fedora was to go here) ; sda3: 3GB swap ; sda4: ~47 GB /home. I set these partitions a few months ago when I last installed Ubuntu. I had begun install of Fedora 7 when the machine crashed- I didn't get to the real install part. Upon rebooting (into Ubuntu), it complained something about inodes. I gave it the root password (yes, I had previously set a root password) and ran fsck (or something else resembling a rather unacceptable work, appropriate name by the way). A few Y, Y, Y's later I could boot the system. However, as soon as I logged into KDE I was returned to the login screen. I CTRL-ALT-F4ed into a terminal and logged in as root. I then cd'ed into /home, and ls showed that there was nothing there. I immediately ran shutdown -h and now that I'm home I'm writing from the wife's desktop. Any help in recovering the /home/user directory, or even specific files therein, would be very much appreciated. Thank you in advance. Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/ http://what-is-what.com/

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Mplayer prolem FC7 [SOLVED]
by david walcroft 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

It turns out that the dvd I was using to view had nothing on it! Testing with other dvd's had no problem running

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spamassassin has broken...
by Scott van Looy 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Anyone else seeing this kind of thing? Jul 31 20:26:28 novak spamd[11225]: spamd: connection from novak.ethosuk.org.uk [127.0.0.1] at port 34344 Jul 31 20:26:28 novak spamd[11225]: spamd: setuid to scott succeeded Jul 31 20:26:28 novak spamd[11225]: spamd: processing message <38125.199.67.140.154.1185909688.squirrel(a)mail.superhero.org> for scott:500 Jul 31 20:26:31 novak spamd[11373]: pyzor: check failed: util: setuid 0 to 500 failed! at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin/Util.pm line 1343. Jul 31 20:26:32 novak spamd[11373]: spamd: clean message (-6.6/5.0) for scott:500 in 3.4 seconds, 4247 bytes. Jul 31 20:26:32 novak spamd[11373]: spamd: result: . -6 - AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,SPF_PASS scantime=3.4,size=4247,user=scott,uid=500,required_score=5.0,rhost=novak.ethosuk.org.uk,raddr=127.0.0.1,rport=34344,mid=<38125.199.67.140.154.1185909688.squirrel(a)mail.superhero.org>,bayes=0.000000,autolearn=ham Jul 31 20:26:32 novak spamd[11373]: spamd: accidental fork: 11373 != 11225 at /usr/bin/spamd line 1628. Jul 31 20:26:34 novak spamd[11225]: spamd: clean message (-6.6/5.0) for scott:500 in 5.4 seconds, 4247 bytes. Jul 31 20:26:34 novak spamd[11225]: spamd: result: . -6 - BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,SPF_PASS scantime=5.4,size=4247,user=scott,uid=500,required_score=5.0,rhost=novak.ethosuk.org.uk,raddr=127.0.0.1,rport=34344,mid=<38125.199.67.140.154.1185909688.squirrel(a)mail.superhero.org>,bayes=0.000000,autolearn=unavailable Jul 31 20:26:34 novak spamc[11371]: failed sanity check, 4256 bytes claimed, 8585 bytes seen Jul 31 20:26:34 novak sendmail[11368]: l6VJPln3011341: to=<scott(a)ethosuk.org.uk>, delay=00:00:06, xdelay=00:00:06, mailer=local, pri=214116, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent Basically no spam is being identified and I've not changed the config in a few months so I'm suspecting an update might have broken something? -- Scott van Looy - email:me@ethosuk.org.uk | web:www.ethosuk.org.uk site:www.freakcity.net - the in place for outcasts since 2003 PGP Fingerprint: 7180 5543 C6C4 747B 7E74 802C 7CF9 E526 44D9 D4A7 ------------------------------------------- |/// /// /// /// WIDE LOAD /// /// /// ///| ------------------------------------------- The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.

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OT - Bourne shell array sort
by Tod 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Without having to write my own, is there a quick way I can sort a two dimensional array on a specific column? Of course if there's a list that might be better to post this question to I'd appreciate that as well. Thanks - Tod

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Fedora 7 Live CD hibernation consecuences
by Fernando Apesteguía 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Hi all, I was trying out Fedora 7 Live CD. I wanted to know if the hibernation feature worked in my computer. I tried to hibernate it but I got a flash falling back to console for a while (some ACPI warnings) and then back again to X11. OK, it didn't work... but the point is that after a safe power off (no errors or warnings) I couldn't boot into my FC 6!!! No GRUB menu... nothing. After some minutes of panic, I reset my BIOS to it's default values and I could boot. Everything seems to be fine. Is this the first time this happens? Is this a bug? Should I open a bug in bugzilla? Cheers PS: No, I'm _not_ going to try to reproduce this :)

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How does the fedora brewbuilder work?
by Mark 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Hey, At this moment i'm looking into using distcc to use another computer in my network to speed up the compilation progress but while looking at that stuff i wondered how fedora is doing it. So is the build system actually a cluster of 10? computers which are working with distcc to compile all that stuff asap? Some info about this would be interesting. Thanx, Mark.

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reboot after shutdown
by Faust Nijhuis 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Hello all, Once i tryed the "Suspend to Disk" of kpowersave and instead of suspend i get logout. But after that when i do a shutdown the system reboots after shutdown, even when i try "shutdown -h now" from the commandline. I tryed google but found nothing what would explain this. Who nows wat happed here and how to solve it? I am running fc7 (updated). Faust

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yum peculuarity on i586 and i686 rpms
by Aaron Konstam 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Ok, I require clarification. My yum updates does not include the kernel-2.6.1-33.fc7 because in the repos there is not i386 kernel with this version even though they are i386 repos. On the other hand the kernel-headers-2.6.1-33.fc7 was installed because this is a designated as a i386 rpm. Is there a rule covering this? Why are others getting this later kernel version installed? -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net>

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New hang on suspend, anyone?
by Chris Schumann 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

I have a ThinkPad T60 running F7. After the recent kernel update, suspend to RAM no longer works. It drops to text mode, says it is suspending, and locks up. I can't get the machine to respond at all with the keyboard, so I can't get to a console. Is this common? Is there a work-around? (I kind of like suspend on a laptop.) Chris

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