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Linux software for Motorola Razor phone?
by William W. Austin 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

This may have been answered before, but scanning the archives, I haven't found it (sorry...). My wife recently surprised me with a new gsm phone, a Motorola Razor. I already had the USB cable which works with it (use it with my camcorder), but a web search for Linux software to use the phone with one of my Linux boxen didn't turn up anything. Basically I want to synchronize the calendar and phonebooks, and be able to back up files from the phone to the computer (and restore). I'm running both FC4 and FC5 here so anything which would work with either of those would be great - and much apprecited. Thanks in advance, -- william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."

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Network problems on new FC4 box - please help.
by William W. Austin 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

I had to replace a disk (the one with all of the home directories on it) on an FC3 box, and so I bought a new drive (particulars unimportant). To make a long story short, I decided to put FC4 on this box, and so I installed the new drive and put the root filesystem on it. I still have the old FC3 root drive and can boot to either for comparison... Under FC3, I have no network problems that I can detect; however, under FC4 there are two distinct (related? no idea) problems which have eluded me. I have tried looking up both of these in the archives, but have had no luck (some similar issues, but nothing exactly like either of these unless I missed them). Problem 1: network card goes to sleep. This machine has 2 network cards, both on-board. The 1GB card L(Intel 82540EM) goes to the smartswitch to tolk to the local network, and does not show any problems. The other card (nVidia nForce2) is a 100MB card and talks to the DSL modem. Periodically I cannot connect to the internet at all - or even ping the DSL modem. This happens irregularly but about 5-10 times/day. If I reboot back to FC3, the problem does not occur. Network configurations between the two (FC3/FC4) are as identical as I can make them. The first few times the problem occurs, sometimes retarting networking works, but eventually a full sys reboot is the only thing which works. Problem 2: slow local network. Under FC3 throughput on the LOCAL network (1GB lan) is very fast. Under FC4, the best I have seen is ONE transfer of about 1.2 MB/s - and throughput drops to as low as 50-75KB/s at times. Again, this does not occur under FC3 but does under FC4. Again the same setup as nearly as I can make it. No workaround found so far. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. -- william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."

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latest selinux policy update errors
by Mark Haney 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

Is anyone else seeing these types of failures with the latest selinux updates? libsemanage.semanage_direct_remove: Module dpkg was not found. semodule: Failed on dpkg! error: %trigger(selinux-policy-strict-2.6.4-21.fc7.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 libsemanage.semanage_direct_remove: Module dpkg was not found. semodule: Failed on dpkg! error: %trigger(selinux-policy-strict-2.6.4-23.fc7.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 Should I file a bug report? -- Da mihi sis bubulae frustrum assae, solana tuberosa in modo gallico fricta, ac quassum lactatum coagulatum crassum Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415 Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support

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pf packet filter on F9
by Dave Feustel 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Can pf be used on F9? Would there be any advantage or disadvantage in doing so? Thanks.

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Flash plugin - no sound
by potat0 28 Feb '09

28 Feb '09

Hello, I have F9. I installed flash plugin from adobe yum distro. But there's no sound when I run "youtube" or some page like that. Maybe someone knows where can be a problem? Thanks -- This is an email sent via The Fedora Community Portal https://fcp.surfsite.org https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=290823&topic_i… If you think, this is spam, please report this to webmaster(a)fcp.surfsite.org and/or blame mkas(a)tux.lt.

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Fedora 10 and UK keyboard layout
by Marcelo Garcia 20 Feb '09

20 Feb '09

Hi During the installation of Fedora 10 I choose UK for the keyboard layout, but I when I log in gnome is using American layout. If I add the UK in System->Preferences->Hardware->Keyboard it seems to not make difference. I make it the default, but again, the layout is american. Thanks Marcelo

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Dell OptiPlex 745 reboot problem
by Tony Molloy 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Hi, I've just installed Fedora-9 on a lab of Dell OptiPlex 745 (SFF) machines. ( only in 1 lab TG ) After running firstboot when I went to reboot the machines they just hang and I had to do a hard reboot. I thought this was a minor glitch and ignored it. Now however when the machines boot into Fedora-9 the "reboot" and "suspend" buttons do not work. The windowing system just shuts down and I get a text prompt and the machines just hang there. As thes are dual boot machines this will cause a lot of problems starting monday when the students return ;-( Is ther some magic incantation to grub to sort this problem or any body got any ideas. Thank's Tony

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Gnome apps font size on KDE Live CD
by Andrew Parker 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

I installed from the KDE Live CD, so I don't have the gnome desktop installed, but all the fonts on gnome apps are way too big. How do I configure the default font size for gnome apps?

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[OT] msbsos password recovery
by g 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 greets, i would like to help a colleague crack a password used on a win 2000 pro system and have pulled from; http://www.openwall.com/john/ http://www.loginrecovery.com/ http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ any suggestions for something that may be better. password is for a user who is now departed, as in died, and need this password to access a remote site. site's policy prohibits their bypassing password to allow colleague's company access. thanks in advance for any help or recommendations. - -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFI+rHR+C4Bj9Rkw/wRAubvAKCTsQwxkjwHMf7ZcFe057ae0uG1AQCg1vsD mqOWiHpNG5dhvTyaUwQyEBc= =Lm9I -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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npviewer.bin segfaulting
by Patrick O'Callaghan 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

I'm getting frequent segfaults which crash Firefox: Oct 12 11:04:23 bree kernel: npviewer.bin[31287]: segfault at f7042ac4 ip 6a4640 sp f4bb5dfc error 4 in libpthread-2.8.so[69d000+15000] Oct 12 11:04:23 bree kernel: npviewer.bin[31288]: segfault at f71cf984 ip 10d42eb sp f3ec2f60 error 4 in libflashplayer.so[ddb000+778000] Oct 12 17:45:04 bree kernel: npviewer.bin[2720]: segfault at f6f64030 ip 6a4640 sp ff88909c error 4 in libpthread-2.8.so[69d000+15000] Oct 13 09:32:28 bree kernel: npviewer.bin[26918]: segfault at f6efb030 ip 6a4640 sp ffa21eac error 4 in libpthread-2.8.so[69d000+15000] Oct 13 09:32:48 bree kernel: npviewer.bin[26946]: segfault at f6fb0030 ip 6a4640 sp ff9d6e6c error 4 in libpthread-2.8.so[69d000+15000] Oct 13 10:33:25 bree kernel: npviewer.bin[27857]: segfault at f6fac030 ip 6a4640 sp ffdd126c error 4 in libpthread-2.8.so[69d000+15000] Oct 14 08:50:10 bree kernel: npviewer.bin[4545]: segfault at f6f74030 ip 6a4640 sp ffd9b22c error 4 in libpthread-2.8.so[69d000+15000] etc. etc. etc. They start on Oct 12, which coincides with the last update I did (a groupupdate of KDE from updates-testing-newkey). This is F9 on a x86_64. I can't do far pin the segfault down to a specific page or media type. I did a "mozilla-plugin-config -i" a couple of hours back and it hasn't happened since, but I thought I'd mention it in case anyone else had seen this. I'll post a followup if it happens again. poc

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