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VDQ : merging f7 configs
by Beartooth 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

On one, but only one, of our F7 machines yum update often pauses with some such query as this : Package nss_ldap: merging configuration for file "/etc/ldap.conf": By default, RPM would keep your local version and rename the new one to / etc/ldap.conf.rpmnew What do you want to do ? - diff the two versions (d) - do the default RPM action (q) - install the package's version (i) - merge interactively with vim (v) - background this process and examine manually (z) Your answer ? My default has usually been q, figuring the hotshots would pick the safest thing as the default. Is that so? Should I be moving old files to backups and .rpmnew files to current according to any particular criteria? Is there any way of doing it in mass that's safe? The things must be piling up, and in places I have no knowledge of ... -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora Core 6; CXO 5.0.1; Pine 4.64, Pan 0.119; Privoxy 3.0.3; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2.0.3, Epiphany 2.16, Opera 9.02, Firefox 1.5 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.

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convert file.wmv to .wav ?
by Bob Goodwin 03 Oct '07

03 Oct '07

Can someone tell me how to convert audio .wmv to .wav, .mp3, or .ogg? I tried ImageMagick 'convert' but I don't seem to be able to make it work, perhaps because I don't have the command right? As usual I'm having trouble with the man page ... Or there may be a better way to do this. I have an audio file in .wmv that I would like to compress, it's not very important but I hate to let it go undone. Bob Goodwin

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service-network-restart
by david walcroft 03 Oct '07

03 Oct '07

Every time I use this command in my shell I get disconnected from the net and have to reboot if I'm to use the net. Thanks david

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Error: kernel cannot suspend to ram.
by Paul Smith 03 Oct '07

03 Oct '07

Dear All, When running on the console the command 'pm-suspend', I get the following: $ pm-suspend Error: kernel cannot suspend to ram. $ Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul

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agpgart aperture check fails with kernels 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 and 2.6.22.5-71.fc7
by Antti J. Huhtala 02 Oct '07

02 Oct '07

Hi list, I've just filed a bug in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=278721 to report about agpgart aperture check failure after two recent kernel updates in my AMD Athlon 64 3000+ desktop box with ASUS K8N MB, Nvidia nForce3 chipset and ATI Radeon 9200 PRO controller. The problem appears in trying to restart the computer (warm boot). Then the booting process freezes right after 'Booting the kernel.' appears on screen. It won't go on from that point. To be able to use the box at all I must perform a cold boot, i.e. power the system completely off. A couple of seconds off is sufficient. When booted after power-off, four lines of agpgart messages including "No usable aperture found." "Consider rebooting with iommu=memaper=2 to get a good aperture." are printed but booting continues past the 'freeze point' and eventually ends up in usual Gnome login screen. From then on the box runs normally. agpgart aperture check has worked in this box through all kernels since FC4 in June, 2005 until 2.6.22.4-65 update on 25th Aug. apgart version is still the same 1.02 which has worked just fine for at least several months. A more detailed description can be read from bugzilla. If anyone on this list has similar experience and box components, please add your comments to the above bug. If someone knows a quick remedy, that's welcome, too. Thank you! Antti

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Scribus scripts
by Craig White 02 Oct '07

02 Oct '07

Apparently Scribus uses python for scripting language but the scripts aren't installed on x86_64 but only on i386 F7 - x86_64 # rpm -ql scribus|grep scripts [root@dell-320-2 ~]# # uname -ir 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 x86_64 F7 - i386 # rpm -ql scribus|grep scripts /usr/share/scribus/scripts /usr/share/scribus/scripts/CalendarWizard.py /usr/share/scribus/scripts/CalendarWizard.pyc /usr/share/scribus/scripts/CalendarWizard.pyo /usr/share/scribus/scripts/ChangeLog /usr/share/scribus/scripts/FontSample.py /usr/share/scribus/scripts/FontSample.pyc /usr/share/scribus/scripts/FontSample.pyo /usr/share/scribus/scripts/NEWS /usr/share/scribus/scripts/ReadMe /usr/share/scribus/scripts/TODO # uname -ir 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i386 am I missing something here? -- Craig White <craig(a)tobyhouse.com>

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PC bios confused in which harddrive to boot fedora OS: Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media!
by Excalibur Xcalibur 02 Oct '07

02 Oct '07

Hi All, This is a rather unusual situation. I have a server running fedora linux OS with a 650 Gb Seagate Barracuda Harddrive. Now I wanted to mirror the server with an identical harddrive. When I plugged my new harddrive in, I got the message: "Reboot and select proper *boot* device or *insert boot media" *It seems that because it's an identical harddrive (with not OS though), the PC doesn't *see* which one is the correct boot harddrive. Weird! If a plug a different harddisk than the one with the linux OS, they system boots up. Any clues on how to fix this problem? * * -- Peter "Excalibur"

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Recommendation for Fedora server?
by Timothy Murphy 02 Oct '07

02 Oct '07

I'm planning on getting a home server, serving httpd, ssh, mysql, dovecot, etc, and running Fedora 7. I'd like something using as little energy as possible, given that I need 200-300GB in disk-space. But I don't need a monitor (or graphics card). Is anyone running such a system? If so, I'd be interested to hear the hardware details.

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Hard Drive data rates
by Karl Larsen 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

I was lead to mis-understand the data rate of my new SATA hard drive. It indicated that the data rate was 3 GB/sec. But some checking with Google said the Hard Drive makers are very free with their units. To be specific a SATA drive is 3000 MegaBits/second. This boils down to about 375 MB. The old standard IDE parallel 40 pin plug is rated for a rate of 112 MB at the fastest to 78 GB at the slowest part of the platter. So in my case I will not see a huge change moving to my SATA hard drive. I will stay here on the new IDE much longer. -- Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI Linux User #450462 http://counter.li.org.

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Alias for pen drives
by Paul Smith 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

Dear All, The alias '/dev/dvd' is for dvd. What is the alias for pen drives? Thanks in advance, Paul

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