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not able to install Miro
by potat0 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Hi I am trying to install Miro using yum I am getting the below erros. Letme know how to resokve it Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-i686 = 2.6.26.6-49.fc8 is needed by package kmod-madwifi-2.6.26.6-49.fc8 Error: Missing Dependency: libx264.so.56 is needed by package mencoder Error: Missing Dependency: libx264.so.56 is needed by package mplayer Error: Missing Dependency: libx264.so.56 is needed by package mplayer-gui on my system uname -a displays Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.25.6-27.fc8 #1 SMP Fri Jun 13 16:38:52 EDT 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux 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=300645&topic_i… If you think, this is spam, please report this to webmaster(a)fcp.surfsite.org and/or blame raghu.vardhan(a)indiainfo.com.

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Re: Announcing Fedora Sugar Spin!
by Sebastian Dziallas 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Rafael Gomes wrote: > Great Job. I am writing a news in Fedora Project Website from Brazil. > > One Question, what problem to put iso in official mirros? > > Thanks, Yeah, thanks! :) To answer your question: Well, we haven't gotten approval from release engineering (yet), so this spin will neither be officially released together with F10 nor will it be built by rel-eng and that's why it won't be mirrored through the official mirrors. That's just the way it is, since we're a little bit late with this spin and aren't able to make it for F10. --Sebastian > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian(a)when.com> wrote: >> Hi everybody, >> >> I'm proud to be announce the availability of our Fedora Sugar Spin, which >> incorporates the Sugar Desktop Environment on a Fedora Live CD. >> >> So, what is this in specific? With this spin, you'll be able to run Sugar, >> which is developed by Sugarlabs and the desktop environment used on the >> OLPC, directly from a Live CD! You'll find several activities on the image >> including most notably... >> >> * sugar-browse - a web browsing activity based on xulrunner >> * sugar-write - a word processor based on abiword >> >> ...among with several other applications introducing e.g. chat support. >> >> We, the OLPC SIG, will be importing further activities into Fedora, which >> might be installed using 'yum install sugar-*' at a later time. >> >> Where can you get it? Easily, here: >> >> http://sdz.fedorapeople.org/olpc/sugar-spin.iso >> >> Here's the SHA1 checksum, just if you're interested: >> >> f032ab45aa116c2728dcd2d676e29a5ee114fd1d sugar-spin.iso >> >> And what if you wanted to put it quickly onto your USB Key? Even easier! >> You'll just need to grab Luke Macken's liveusb-creator, which already >> includes support for the Sugar Spin. Here's the link: >> >> https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liveusb-creator/liveusb-creator-3.0.z… >> >> Thank you everybody, who made this possible! >> >> --Sebastian >> >> -- >> fedora-announce-list mailing list >> fedora-announce-list(a)redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list

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Problems found in /var/log/messages: gdm related.
by Dan Thurman 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Hum... I cannot figure out how to fix this particular issue. I have tried to look for information in forums and mailers but have not found any solutions to this. Can you take a look at the following and perhaps you might already know of a solution? /var/log/messages: ============================================== Oct 30 16:42:26 bronze gdm-simple-greeter[15590]: WARNING: gconf key '/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/recent-languages' is unset Oct 30 16:42:26 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Error setting value for `/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/recent-languages': Unable to store a value at key '/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/recent-languages', as the configuration server has no writable databases. There are some common causes of this problem: 1) your configuration path file /etc/gconf/2/path doesn't contain any databases or wasn't found 2) somehow we mistakenly created two gconfd processes 3) your operating system is misconfigured so NFS file locking doesn't work in your home directory or 4) your NFS client machine crashed and didn't properly notify the server on reboot that file locks should be dropped. If you have two gconfd processes (or had two at the time the second was launched), logging out, killing all copies of gconfd, and logging back in may help. If you have stale locks, remove ~/.gconf*/*lock. Perhaps the problem is that you attempted to use GConf from two machines at once, and ORBit still has its default configuration that prevents remote CORBA connections - put "ORBIIOPIPv4=1" in /etc/orbitrc. As always, check the user.* syslog for details on problems gconfd encountered. There can only be one gconfd per home directory, and it must own a lockfile in ~/.gconfd and also lockfiles in individual storage locations such as ~/.gconf Oct 30 16:42:26 bronze gdm-simple-greeter[15590]: WARNING: gconf key '/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/recent-languages' is unset Oct 30 16:42:26 bronze gdm-simple-greeter[15590]: CRITICAL: gdm_option_widget_set_default_item: assertion `item == NULL || gdm_option_widget_lookup_item (widget, item, NULL, NULL, NULL)' failed Oct 30 16:42:31 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Could not open saved state file '/var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state.tmp' for writing: Permission denied Oct 30 16:42:31 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Exiting Oct 30 16:42:31 bronze gconfd (admin-15784): starting (version 2.22.0), pid 15784 user 'admin' Oct 30 16:42:31 bronze gconfd (admin-15784): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0 Oct 30 16:42:31 bronze gconfd (admin-15784): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/admin/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 1 Oct 30 16:42:31 bronze gconfd (admin-15784): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2 ============================================== 1) Not sure how to set the gconf key and path /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/recent-languages and /apps does not exist. 2) Seems that gconf path file is there: # cd /etc/gconf/2 # ls evoldap.conf local-defaults.path local-mandatory.path path 3) gconfd was not doubly started, AFAIK - checked pgrep gconfd and only one processID exist. 4) There are no locks located in ~/.gconf*/*locks I have removed and reinstalled gdm but that did not help. Not sure what to do at this point... Thanks! Dan

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Firefox Font Rendering
by David Hláčik 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Hello guys, how come Firefox does not change font-size when changing DPI in Gnome Settings? Does it accept system DPI settings or it uses own? I have checked about:config for dpi , there is -1 value . setting to 0 or 109 does nothing , but what is surprising 300 px does ... Thanks for explanation, D.

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Ubuntu Ibex offers choice of KDE4.1.2 or KDE3.5.10... and kernel-2.6.27.
by linux guy 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Subject says it all. Fedora developers tell us that they can't give us a choice of KDE version and yet Ubuntu is doing it. Ironically, Fedora says their distribution is more cutting edge and yet Ibex gets kernel 2.6.27 and we are still stuck with 2.6.26. I think the KDE-3.5.10 decision demonstrates that Ubuntu developers are more sensitive to user end needs. I know a bunch of people are going to chime in and say "Fedora isn't for you" and "Its a bleeding edge distribution", etc. I think those are just excuses for a developer community that wants to do it own thing irregardless of what users actually want. Don't shoot me, I'm just the squeaky wheel/messenger.

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F10 on eeepc 901
by Fred Smith 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Hi all! I've been playing with the latest F10 beta (live CD) on my eeepc 901. Most things seem to be working well: it finds the correct screen resolution (which is 1024x600, definitely not one of the common settings before the mini laptop craze began, and many live CDs don't set it right); it finds the wired network without trouble and automatically starts it once the cable is plugged in (I assume Network Manger is doing that for me). Wireless isn't working because, I assume, it doesn't have a ralink rt2860sta driver. I know I could compile my own, and there have been reports of people using ndiswrapper. But it'd be nice if the Fedora gang could squeeze it into an upcoming release. Haven't yet played with audio, webcam, microphone, so don't know their status. But overall it seems to run pretty well! My thanks for the entire Fedora team for this release,... it looks like it's gonna be good! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community. --Roger Ebert, December, 1996 ----------------------------- The Boulder Pledge -----------------------------

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Wish To Know The Basics of Installing/Downloading a Fedora Operating System
by Ubique Enterprises 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

*Wish To Know The Basics of Installing/Downloading a Fedora Operating System * Hello, I have the following request: Background - I have an Internet connection on a Dell Server (Home based and being used as a stand alone machine or a 32 bit machine) having a Windows 2003 Operating System installed. Dell Server does not have a very reliable CD/DVD burner. It can read only. Do not know much about it. Want to do the following a) Download a Fedora Operating System on a folder in the hard disk. And transfer it out of this computer to another stand alone machine which currently has only a 256 MB RAM with the help of a pen drive/pen drive having a 1 gb capacity. Wish to install using the pen drive after wiping out the earlier Windows Operating Systems - Win XP installed on it. Possible? How? Step- By -Step please. Thanks. Armoredfish

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F9: Manually editing passwd/group files causes rebooting to freeze up after udev....
by Dan Thurman 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

I was manually changing the /etc/passwd and /etc/group file since my users were incorrectly assigned UID/GIDs, I manually corrected the UID/GID in /home for each user, rebooted and noticed that I would get a hang just after udev. I tried ^D and noticed that something complaining about /var/run/anacron was not removable and that user anacron did not exist, and the system would then shutdown and reboot. On rebooting, I stopped grub and added -s and single user boot was successful. In single user, I checked what I could and finding nothing, and proceeded with ^D and noticed several things: 1) There was a message to the effect that several important users (root, anacron, and others) was not able to be retrieved from dbus's database. The message appears too fast for me to write it all down exactly. 2) Repeated messages of: "Unknown username "root" in message bus configuration file, for each important users. Is there some way to repair the dbus database? Thanks! Dan

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the kind of endorsement you can live without
by Robert P. J. Day 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

ok, this is just plain creepy: http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=529481 rday

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Remote Rescue - PXE, SSH, and a remote console?
by Ryan Wilson 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Hi, I've got a Linux server at my parent's house. It had some hardware troubles and I shipped them a new computer and asked them to move the hard drive over. That worked out great, except now Fedora 8 won't boot. I think I know why (I think I need to rebuild my initrd), but how can I do that from remote? Unfortunately, due to time zone issues, I can't talk with my parents directly, just via e-mail. This has led to some really slow reboot cycles... They put in a live cd, configure the box for remote login and e-mail me. Later (maybe the next day), I login make a change and reboot. The system doesn't come back up so I have to e-mail them to tell me the error and have them put in the live cd again. This has repeated several times. One reboot takes days! It's getting very painful to try and recover this computer! So, I want to improve my ability to debug problems in the future... Any suggestions on better ways to debug a remote server? Is there a way to redirect the Linux console over the network like you can to a serial port? My google searches keep leading me to "ethercons" for FreeBSD which claims it is based on a Linux driver that I can't find any information about. Is there something else that I haven't found? This would help with interacting with the console to read error messages. Is there a way to have the kernel reboot the system automatically if it can't mount the root filesystem? I'm not 100% sure where the system is hanging, but I think nash gives up when it can't find the filesystem and just hangs. Can I specify that the kernel reboot on panic on the command line? My setting in /etc/sysctl.conf doesn't get run because the root filesystem isn't mounted yet! Is there something I can use to trigger remote reboots? Like a wake-on-lan packet that reboots the system when hung? Is there a linux distro (preferably Fedora or one of its variants) that I can boot a rescue session from using PXE? I'd like to build a setup with grub, pxelinux, etc... (if possible) where it boots into the main OS and on reboot, it will switch back-and-forth to a rescue distro. I just bought a Linksys WRT54GL (only $50 on amazon!) and I plan on using openvpn to setup a tunnel between this server and me and use the DHCP/TFTP server to serve up PXE. Maybe with PXE I could serve one config for booting the real hard drive and then another config when I want the rescue CD. This rescue distro would need to bring up an ssh server with a password preset or a public key so I could login remotely (if there is no way to redirect the console to the network). I've considered, if no other solution is available, about rolling a cusom Fedora spin with all the tools and configuration I need for this. Thanks, Ryan

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