Re: Firefox not opening from Thunderbird links: error, launching default action command
by R. G. Newbury
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 6:25 PM, R. G. Newbury <newbury(a)mandamus.org> wrote:
> > Firefox 3 was hanging on certain websites. I downgraded to Fedora
2.0.17. Now when I click on a link in a Thunderbird email I get a box
with the error message:
> >
> > Error showing url: There was an error launching the default action
command associated with this location.
>this might help,
>http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A1=ind0809&L=scientific-linux-users
>look at the thread titled "cannot follow hyperlinks in thunderbird"
Thanks! That was the needed pointer. The script at
/usr/lib/thunderbird-xxxx calls gconftool-2 to get a key
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command which pointed to
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox as the executable.
Unfortunately my downgrade to version 2 replaced the /usr/lib/firefox
folder with /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.17 and the reference failed.
Creation of a symlink solved the problem.
Geoff
Please let me know if anything I say offends you.
I may wish to offend you again in the future.
Tux says: "Be regular. Eat cron flakes."
15 years, 6 months
Bug ? "Save As" dialog box should not start with /tmp by default
by Reuben D. Budiardja
Hello,
Here's a scenario that just happened to my wife that should not. This is on
Fedora 8.
1. Open a document from email attachment (with Kmail), that opens in
OpenOffice
2. "Save As" the document so that it can be edited.
3. Openoffice "Save As" dialog open with the default
directory "/tmp/kde-username" because that's where Kmail put its attachment
4. In a hurry, just name the file something else
5. Edit the file, Save, shutdown the computer
6. Next time computer boot up, document gone
I know all the arguments blaming the user. As a technical person, regretably
that was my first reaction also. On second thought, for regular user, who can
tell what /tmp is ? Regular user does not know that /tmp are cleaned every
reboot. Furthermore, in a hurry, if one just want to save quickly so that it
can be used the next time computer boots up, it's understandable that user
makes the mistake to save the document to whatever default directory is
presented by the dialog box (thinking one can always re-open it from "Recent
Document" menu).
This is not limited to Kmail or Openoffice, I just tried and it's the same
with KPDF, Kghostview, etc. Firefox opening files in application also has
similar problem.
What should be the general solutions for this ? Should this be the
responsibility of the desktop environment project (ie. KDE, GNOME) from
their "Save As" dialog rather than each individual apps ?
I'm thinking of filling a bug report but then I'm not sure whom I should file
this with.
I can think of some hacky band-aid solution to prevent document loss next time
like a rotating backup of /tmp for the next two reboot or edit the boot up
script to not delete /tmp, etc, but none of those is a good enough general
solution.
Maybe it should be sometime like:
1. Default to $HOME directory for saving if file is opened from /tmp
2. Have a shortcut in the dialog to go to the directory where the document is
opened from (ie. "/tmp/kde-username") for the case where one would actually
just want to save a temporary file there. Probably have a "warning" and
a "don't warn me again" or "do this automatically next time" preference.
Thoughts ?
Thanks for any discussion.
RDB
--
Reuben D. Budiardja
Dept. Physics and Astronomy
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
15 years, 6 months
Apache issues on Fedora 9
by Seann Clark
All,
I have two issues, one is with the build itself, and the other is
one of those "I can't figure it out myself" issues. Lets start with the
one that is less user error based. I have a server that is running
fedora 9 x64 that runs decently, but the parent process SegFaults when
issued a reload command (service httpd reload) but is fine, no problem
when I restart it, instead of reload it. I don't have any trace
information, and don't know if it is dumping a core. I have had this
problem for a while (since going with F9, up from F7 on a 32bit box) and
I am wondering if anyone else has seen this problem, and if so, what
they did to fix it, if they did. My restart work around works for me
right now, I am just wondering if this has been seen elsewhere.
Package/Install information appended to the end of the message for the
sake of clarity.
My second issue, which I know is something I am doing wrong, but I
can't figure out what is that I have one server, servicing my .net site,
which has been up with the same config for about two years. I have
expanded out domains to include a .org and a .com, which I would like to
virtualhost. Problem is, with the virtual host configurations I have had
set up, I get one of two results, either it only hits the first virtual,
or it hits the default all the time (.net) even though it is getting the
.com or .org header as the requested site (which should trigger the
server name aspect and serve the correct content.l
The configuration has been tried two ways, both as adding on to the
.net configuration: adding in .conf files in /etc/httpd/conf.d as well
as adding in the Virtual server statements in httpd.conf (not both at
the same time, ever since it is conflicting information) I also have it
set to listen for named virtual servers on the servers IP address. A
snippet from the httpd.conf file is:
NameVirtualHost *:80
#VirtualHost example:
#Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
#The first VirtualHost section is used for requests without a known
#server name.
<VirtualHost *:*>
ServerAdmin webmaster(a)tsukinokage.net
DocumentRoot /var/www/commercial/
ServerName www.tsukinokage.com
ServerAlias www.tsukinokage.com *.tsukinokage.com
ServerPath /commercial/
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(/commercial/.*) /www/commercial$1
ErrorLog logs/commercial_error_log
CustomLog logs/commercial_access_log common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:*>
ServerAdmin webmaster(a)tsukinokage.net
DocumentRoot /var/www/org/
ServerName www.tsukinokage.org
ServerAlias www.tsukinokage.org *.tsukinokage.org
ServerPath /org/
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(/org/.*) /www/tsukinokage$1
ErrorLog logs/org_error_log
CustomLog logs/org_access_log common
</VirtualHost>
This information is added onto the end of the working config for the
.net site. I have even tried changing listening ports and still I get
only the content from the net site, even though it is in a different
directory that isn't listed for the other configs. I am rather stumped,
and nothing I have tried off examples and the apache site have worked for me
Any help would be appreciated. .
Regards,
Seann
Wed Oct 29-08:53:50-root@haruhi:PXEDev> uname -a
Linux haruhi 2.6.26.5-45.fc9.x86_64 1 SMP Sat Sep 20 03:23:12 EDT 2008
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
*
*Packages installed for this
httpunit-1.6.2-1jpp.1.fc7.noarch
httpd-manual-2.2.9-1.fc9.x86_64
jakarta-commons-httpclient-javadoc-3.1-0jpp.1.fc9.x86_64
nagios-plugins-http-1.4.13-9.fc9.x86_64
system-config-httpd-1.4.4-1.fc8.noarch
jakarta-commons-httpclient-demo-3.1-0jpp.1.fc9.x86_64
httpd-tools-2.2.9-1.fc9.x86_64
python-httplib2-0.4.0-1.fc9.noarch
jakarta-commons-httpclient-manual-3.1-0jpp.1.fc9.x86_64
jakarta-commons-httpclient-3.1-0jpp.1.fc9.x86_64
httpd-2.2.9-1.fc9.x86_64
mod_geoip-1.2.5-2.fc9.x86_64
mod_auth_pgsql-2.0.3-7.x86_64
mod_fcgid-2.2-4.fc9.x86_64
mod_security-2.1.6-1.fc9.x86_64
mod_extract_forwarded-2.0.2-3.fc9.x86_64
mod_auth_mysql-3.0.0-6.x86_64
mod_auth_pam-1.1.1-5.fc9.x86_64
mod_cband-0.9.7.5-2.fc9.x86_64
mod_auth_ntlm_winbind-0.0.0-0.8.20070129svn713.fc9.x86_64
mod_authz_ldap-0.26-10.x86_64
mod_nss-1.0.7-9.fc9.x86_64
mod_perl-2.0.4-1.fc9.x86_64
mod_python-3.3.1-7.x86_64
mod_auth_shadow-2.2-4.fc9.x86_64
mod_geoip-1.2.0-2.fc9.x86_64
mod_security-2.5.6-1.fc9.x86_64
mod_ssl-2.2.9-1.fc9.x86_64
mod_auth_kerb-5.3-7.x86_64
mod_suphp-0.6.3-1.fc9.x86_64
15 years, 6 months
Line width fixed but font size increased
by Barry Yu
When using Firefox, by pressing Ctrl++ to incease font size, the line
width will increase as the fonts are getting bigger, is this the problem
of firefox or the design of web page?
15 years, 6 months
mount relatime option / Ext3-fs: Unrecognized mount option ...
by Gary Artim
Hi --
Last night I added to all my ext3 filesystem relatime, replacing noatime.
I never remount the filesystems (my error). I then ran:
'yum update', and it installed a new kernel and initrd,
2.6.26.6-79.fc9.x86_64. From then on when I tried to boot I got:
ext3-fs: Unrecognized mount option 'relatime or missing value,
mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysrout as ext3: invalid Argument.
I booted knoppix, mount my fs, changed fstab,mtab, sync sync and
it kept complaining about relatime. Then I stumbled on a link saying
the relatime
is passed automatically by the kernel or ? (it was late, head sore
from banging it)
I rebooted the old kernel/initrd and it came up. I catted /proc/mounts and
it showed relatime as a option, checked /etc/fstab /etc/mtab and they all
have noatime (with relatime removed -- verifying my knoppix routine worked).
Can anyone explain this? I'd like to be able to go forward with
2.6.26.6-79.fc9.x86_64.
I think (no proof) that the install of the kernel removed something (?) needed
for ext3 fs to mount cleanly, thanks for any help!
-- Gary
15 years, 6 months
pdf converter
by Adil Adil
Hi,
Is there any tool to convert openoffice documents to pdf?
Thanks
15 years, 6 months
RE: Mails
by Michael.Coll-Barth＠VerizonWireless.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hilton Britten
>
> Hi, is there away to take me of the mail list where members of the
> forum send me mail, some of the mail is coming though two to three
> times a day.
> Please help.
>
> --
> fedora-list mailing list
> fedora-list(a)redhat.com
> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Right above this line is a link. Does it not work?
Sorry folks, I am on a boring call and so began catching up on old
emails.
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15 years, 6 months
X over a reverse SSH tunnel
by Tom Brown
Hi
I can ssh to my work PC, that runs Fedora, from home by using a reverse
ssh tunnel, this is because the VPN software does not work on Linux. Can
anyone explain to me how i can connect to the X server on the work PC from
my home machine by using the same reverse tunnel method? Ideally i'd like
to have it as simple as having a 'remote desktop' type affair.
I can install anything i like so would something like VNC work?
thanks
15 years, 6 months
