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fedora 9/10 Guest account?
by Matt Nicholson 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

I'm looking to get a guest account setup, possibly on a whole host of workstations I run running F9. These workstations auth against and ldap/kerberos setup we have, fyi. so far, my idea is to create a local "guest" user, and user pam_mount to create a tmpfs home directory for the guest user on login, so that it will be removed on logout. I want this user to only be able to login though GDM. Does any one have any experiance doing something like this? is there any though of taking the Guest user system Ubutu recently implemented on? Any help/ideas would be great. Matt

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Why is a terminal in F9 starting in ~/Documents?
by Steven W. Orr 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Under F9, after I come up, I see that when I start a terminal app, that app is not in my $HOME directory. Instead, it's in ~/Documents. Is there a way to prevent this from happening? -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net

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init does not respawn mgetty
by Don Russell 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

I created a new file in /etc/event.d in the hope that mgetty would be started automatically, and respawned when it ends. Well, it starts fine on system restart, but when mgetty ends, that's it... no respawn. :-( This is Fedora 9 I created this ttyS1 file in /etc/event.d, which I modeled after an existing file (tty1) : # ttyS1 - mgetty # # This service maintains an mgetty on ttyS1 from the point the system is # started until it is shut down again. # DNR 2008-10-29 description "mgetty for Caller ID modem" start on stopped rc2 start on stopped rc3 start on stopped rc4 start on stopped rc5 start on started prefdm stop on runlevel 0 stop on runlevel 1 stop on runlevel 6 exec /usr/local/sbin/mgetty -n 2 ttyS1 respawn But, after mgetty answers an incoming call, and ends... it is not respawned... so a second call is never answered. Where do I find documentation on the contents of these files in /etc/event.d or is there a different mechanism I should be using for such things? Thanks

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[Thanks][Everything running just fine]
by Jorge Boscan Etura 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Hello I have an hp dv6139eu laptop running F8 and this is to say that it works just fine, it is being used 24/7, no crash. Thank you Fedora Team!! -- [Jorge J. Boscán Etura] quando omni flunkus moritatus

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ATA Problem with Kernel 2.6.26.6-79
by Andrig T. Miller 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

After booting the with the latest 2.6.26.6-79 kernel on Fedora 9, my system became extremely slow. To the point that Gnome menus would take 20-30 seconds just to drop down. Loading applications as simple as gedit would take a minute or two. In looking into this problem, I opened a terminal and started top. It showed my system at nearly 100% wait time on the CPU. Then I started poking around the logs (/var/log/messages), and I kept seeing the following errors, repeat over and over again: Nov 4 03:08:54 localhost kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Nov 4 03:08:54 localhost kernel: ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x24 Nov 4 03:08:54 localhost kernel: ata1.00: cmd c8/00:a0:09:9a:3d/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 81920 in Nov 4 03:08:54 localhost kernel: res 51/40:00:18:9a:3d/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error) Nov 4 03:08:54 localhost kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } Nov 4 03:08:54 localhost kernel: ata1.00: error: { UNC } Nov 4 03:10:48 localhost kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 Nov 4 03:10:48 localhost kernel: ata1: EH complete So, I thought I had my hard disk failing, and I was very concerned. I found some posts where others were having the same problem, but no one really thought it was an issue. All the other posts where for RAID setups though, on servers, so they may not see the interactivity issues that I was seeing. So, as an experiment, I booted the older 2.6.26.5-45 kernel, and guess what? No ata error messages in /var/log, and the responsiveness of my system has returned to normal. This clearly looks like a bug in the ata code somewhere to me. Any ideas?

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Re: Preventing USB automount
by Steve Berg 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

john wendel wrote: > Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 15:18:55 -0600 (CST) >> "Steve Berg" <sberg(a)mississippi.com> wrote: >> >>> Is there an easy rule to create for udev that will turn off that function? > > Or you could take the easy way out (like I do), "chkconfig haldaemon off". I don't miss it at all. > > Regards, > > John > Yep, that does work, unfortunately it also breaks a few things I don't want to break So far I've managed to tweak the rule in 50-udev-default.rules so I at least get an email notification that a usb device has been attached. Now I need to do that and prevent the mounting of said device. Maybe somebody can offer advice on this: If I leave the libusb section in 50-udev-default.rules file and put my new rule that does notification in a 20-local.rules I understand that the 20 file is a higher priority. But does that also mean that if a new device gets a hit in the 20 file that it will ignore the rule in 50? Or should I be commenting out the libusb entry in 50 so it's disabled and only the 20-local.rules file will take action? -- * Stephen Berg * * sberg(a)mississippi.com * * http://iceberg.3c0x1.com * * Sinners can repent, * * But stupid is forever. * -- * Stephen Berg * * sberg(a)mississippi.com * * http://iceberg.3c0x1.com * * Sinners can repent, * * But stupid is forever. *

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Oracle 11g1 is installed...little way to go yet
by Fred Silsbee 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

somebody was asking about 11g1 on F9 otn.oracle.com is a great support site my battle is there in a few posts & answers Mysterious problems I saw years ago! http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/11g/OracleDB11gR1InstallationOnFedora8.… http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/install.111/b32281/toc.htm beware Oracle sites that start off with: >runInstaller

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fancyheadings.sty in F9?
by Globe Trotter 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Hi, I have an old LaTeX document which uses fancyheadings package. It used to be in the tetex distributions. However, it does not appear to be around in TeXlive on F9. What are my alternatives? Can someone please help me with this? Many thanks and best wishes, Trotter

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Can't load cpuspeed
by Boggiano 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Hi all, I can't run cpuspeed on my wife's notebook:it's a Acer Aspire 3630 and it use a Intel Celeron CPU. FC8 and kernel 2.6.26.6-49.fc8. I even can't load the acpi_cpufreq module, this is the error message: FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq (/lib/modules/2.6.26.6-49.fc8/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko): No such device And BTW, what is the correct value I have to in the file /etc/sysconfig/cpuspeed in the line DRIVER ? I put down here some info, please let me know if you need others. Thanks Ale >cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 13 model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.60GHz stepping : 8 cpu MHz : 1600.097 cache size : 1024 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx up bts bogomips : 3201.58 clflush size : 64 power management: >cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling state count: 8 active state: T0 state available: T0 to T7 states: *T0: 100% T1: 87% T2: 75% T3: 62% T4: 50% T5: 37% T6: 25% T7: 12% >dmesg |grep -i cpu Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset PAT disabled. Not yet verified on this CPU type. ACPI: SSDT 3BDF64B2, 01FB (r1 PmRef CpuPm 3000 INTL 20030224) SMP: Allowing 1 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs PERCPU: Allocating 41384 bytes of per cpu data NR_CPUS: 32, nr_cpu_ids: 1 Initializing CPU#0 CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c07cb000 soft=c07ab000 SLUB: Genslabs=12, HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1 Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K CPU: L2 cache: 1024K Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU0: Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.60GHz stepping 08 Brought up 1 CPUs CPU0 attaching sched-domain: ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3]) ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states) Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0 cpuidle: using governor ladder cpuidle: using governor menu

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Re: screen + vim + paste -> not happy
by Bryn M. Reeves 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Dave Feustel wrote: > Have you tried pasting into vim running in an xterm session? > (Past the text by going into insert and then pressing shift+insert). Yes - running vim outside screen (xterm, gnome-terminal etc.) works fine. Running it in screen, in either an xterm or a gnome-terminal gives the problematic behaviour. Xorg CPU usage is noticably higher with gnome-terminal and the delay (several minutes for gnome-terminal) between pasting and some text appearing in the editor feels slightly less, but the same basic problem persists. There is no problem when pasting into vim running in a plain xterm (no screen). Regards, Bryn.

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