playing audio CDs in F8
by Joachim Backes
Hi,
since some F8 updates, I have the following problem with playing audio CDs:
1. the problem is independent from Gnome or KDE
2.I have 2 IDE DVD drives and 1 USB DVD drives in my box, and I insert
the CDs in the USB drive.
3. When inserting audio CDs, they are recognized, and the player
(gnome-cd) starts automatically with track #1 , and then track #2 is
played automatically. But then, all following tracks will not be
played directly, only if I click the forward button to play the next
track, it will be played.
If not clicking the forward button, then it takes a lot of minutes
(about 10) until the following track is played.
4. Under Knoppix for example, the audio CDs are played totally without
some interaction.
All F8 updates until may 1 are applied.
All help is welcome.
--
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de>
University of Kaiserslautern,Computer Center [RHRK],
Systems and Operations, High Performance Computing,
D-67653 Kaiserslautern, PO Box 3049, Germany
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15 years, 11 months
Value of selinux+grsecurity (was: Re: Anybody deploy grsecurity on Fedora?)
by McGuffey, David C.
>
> > Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:20:03 -0400
> From: "max bianco" <maximilianbianco(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Anybody deploy grsecurity on Fedora?
>
> > Have been watching the PaX and grsecurity efforts for a while, but
> > haven't
> > had a need to add them to a Linux box yet...either for a customer,
or in a
> > lab for playing.
> >
> > I noticed that the PaX stuff seems to now be merged into grsecurity.
The
> > most recent release of grsecurity has some interesting security
features
> > I'm interested in testing.
> >
> >
> >
> > Anyone deploy grsecurity on a recent Fedora release (7 or 8) or RHEL
4
> > or 5? If so, any problems, lessons learned, or tips?
> >
>
> I haven't used and don't know much about it or its relationship, if
> any , with fedora , I don't think it goes as far as SELinux but that
> is just speculation based on a quick overview of the following which i
> will now review in depth to correct any mistaken notions i might have.
> If you come across better resources that explain this better please
> post back.
>
> www.cs.virginia.edu/~jcg8f/GrsecuritySELinuxCaseStudy.pdf
>
> http://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&p=7954
>
> http://www.grsecurity.net/
>
> http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/list-archive/0308/4941.cfm
>
>
> Max
>
Although there is some overlap, I believe the two (selinux and
grsecurity) have many features that are complimentary. Selinux provides
containment based on security contexts (labels). If one were to crash a
program covered by selinux, the damage would be contained. The goals of
grsecrutiy (especially the PaX elements) however, are to make it harder
to crash that program in the first place.
Is the Linux kernel community thinking of pulling in some of the
capabilities that grsecrutiy (especially PaX) offers into the
kernel...making things like randomization of stack, data, and code space
a default behavior of the kernel?
Dave McGuffey
Principal Information System Security Engineer // NSA-IEM, NSA-IAM
SAIC, IISBU, Columbia, MD
15 years, 11 months
Aaron Konstam: Re: Network strangeness
by David L. Gehrt
> I have two machines on a home network:
> cyrus - wireless
> saturn - wired
>
> On cyrus : ping saturn and host saturn both fail saying saturn can't
> be
> found. However, ssh saturn works.
>
> On saturn: ping cyrus works but host cyrus fails.
> ssh cyrus, works
>
> I don't use iptables. Any explanations for this behavior?
>
> Errors are like:
> ** server can't find saturn: NXDOMAIN
>
> I suspect that some things use the local /etc/host bu others do not.
Have you checked the configuration on the wireless access point or
router? My Linksys router has a firewall built into it. I have not
modified its settings and it blocks inbound ICMP.
dlg
<snip>
This should've gone out ~5 hours ago. I Hope there is still a chance it
might be useful.
dlg
15 years, 11 months
FC8, Kernel and NetworkManager
by Antti Aspinen
Hello!
My first post for many years on this list but I have 'a problem' now and
I am sure there might be other people which are affected by it.
When I installed Fedora 8 on my computer it worked 'mostly' like it is
supposed to work and everything was fine. But after laying updates with
pup my problems started. Everytime I started my computer with the new
kernel it made make system totally hang in the end of the booting
process. Just before the GDM login screen. My guess was that some
service is causing kernel-panic on my system.
What I did in the situation was that I took a look into booting process
and noticed that NetworkManager is the cause. So I went with interactive
boot and didn't start the NetworkManager and I actually disabled it from
system-config-services.
I am now starting my network manually using system-config-network and I
have an internet access. But that is not the way it's supposed to work
and I have pretty much tried to find a 'better way' with Google but
there ain't much to say about results.
My PC is based on Asus V8A Deluxe motherboard and it comes with built-in
RaLink WiFi (RT2500 driver) and Marvell (skge driver) based built-in
network card. And please note that NetworkManager did work before laying
updates.
Problem is somewhere between Linux-kernel and NetworkManager. I'd start
with NetworkManager since kernel side of things work when NetworkManager
is not running.
Fix it please. -_____-
Lastest Fedora 8 linux-kernel upgrade broke DigiTv on Fedora. (I have
Nebula's PCI DigitalTelevision card. It's using bt8xx drivers which
modprobe fails to find during boot now.)
Oh, What's wrong with the Udev. Sometimes initing Udev takes freaking
forever, I hate to wait for it like 5 minutes or _more_ sometimes.
Sometimes it starts up with the speed of thunder just under 5 seconds.
In other distriputions such as Debian initing Udev takes 1 second, and
same is with Gentoo and OpenSuse, among others... :-?
So far Fedora 8 has been nice distro and all. And I'm waiting Fedora 9
to improve things I didn't like. Like PulseAudio and NetworkManager.
Those are too much Ubuntu for me. And I don't like Ubuntu. Fedora 8 in
generally seems to be or is at least pretending to be that 'better
ubuntu than ubuntu itself'. ;)
By the way I'd love to see lots of fixes on PulseAudio side of things.
PA is nice invention althought it's not really a sollution for every
audio problem linux has.
But back to the issues, like proper testing of updates. Before making
them go wild heavy testing might be good idea generally. This is the
thing where Fedora should improve _a lot_. Ubuntu guys at Canonical had
similar problems but they came over those with update importance system
they developed (stole from Debian community. :D ).
More critical updates get better tested and updates to critical things
like kernel won't be released unless certain amount of heavy testing has
been committed on it. I would really hate to wake up the next day to see
that kernel upgrade I last night installed has yet broken new things in
my system. -______-
Have a nice day!
--
Antti Aspinen <antti.aspinen(a)phnet.fi>
15 years, 11 months
Re: Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves
by Antonio Olivares
--- Res <res(a)ausics.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2008, Tim wrote:
>
> > Sure. The consensus if you want to do something
> illegal, use something
> > else. There's nothing stopping you from doing so,
> and there's plenty of
> > "something elses" for you to use.
>
> The definition of illegal is wrongly exampled here.
> I know its been a long
> time since I bothered reading fedora EULA, but I
> must have missed the bit
> that said "by use of this software you automatically
> submit to the non-
> exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S courts and its
> laws" if that's in there,
> no wonder I'm not using this crud again.
>
> A more appropriate response would have been "if you
> want to do something
> that is illegal in your country, use something
> else", and if unsure,
> consult a local lawyer, not a bunch of loonies on
> the net who all profess
> to be legal experts and think the entire world is
> governed by U.S law,
> which thankfully, it aint!
+1 :)
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers
> Res
>
> I read usenet and lists in pine. But m$ outlook,
> thunderbird and gmail
> often use html span/whatever for quotes, makes it
> hard to tell who said
> what, so I dont try. If I ignore you, thats why! Use
> a compliant mailer.
>
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15 years, 11 months
Re: Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves
by Da Rock
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 13:34 +1000, Res wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2008, Tim wrote:
>
> > Sure. The consensus if you want to do something illegal, use something
> > else. There's nothing stopping you from doing so, and there's plenty of
> > "something elses" for you to use.
>
> The definition of illegal is wrongly exampled here. I know its been a long
> time since I bothered reading fedora EULA, but I must have missed the bit
> that said "by use of this software you automatically submit to the non-
> exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S courts and its laws" if that's in there,
> no wonder I'm not using this crud again.
>
> A more appropriate response would have been "if you want to do something
> that is illegal in your country, use something else", and if unsure,
> consult a local lawyer, not a bunch of loonies on the net who all profess
> to be legal experts and think the entire world is governed by U.S law,
> which thankfully, it aint!
Indeed! Here, here. Trouble is their law invariably gets enforced
elsewhere due to treaties, alliances, imposed restrictions where charity
is given, and other quasi-legal means. And I don't believe they've even
heard of the bill of human rights, let alone understand and believe in
it.
15 years, 11 months
Re: Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves
by Paul Shaffer
--- On Sat, 4/26/08, Francis Earl <lunitik(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>Why should they pay around $15 per user for software the user didn't pay for, just so they can play codecs that aren't relevant to the people making them their money?
It's called "mindshare." And since when do you define relevance for Redhat's customers? Sounds rather presumptuous, to me. You mention the mindshare concept later, but don't seem to understand it works both ways. And it's a huge advantage in a competitive marketplace.
>There are even legal ways to get codecs (fluendo) and other equally easy ways.
What's easy to you is not easy for the vast majority of users. Computer use for virtually everything these days is taken for granted. Computer knowledge about how they work should not be.
>Today, Linux is big business, and is really making strides even on the home desktop.
Ya think? Ok "strides" compared to what - the over 90% share M$ enjoys? Methinks we got alot more stridin' to do.
>...makes an effort to ensure the industry can't rape users anymore.
I suppose Redhat more prefers neglect to rape. Or maybe passive coercion. But this approach is doomed to failure as we've already seen by Ubuntu's success. Redhat's ability to ensure anything in this industry is doubtful and becoming less a factor all the time as long as they and people like you decry the "ignorant" society and people who can't add a repo. Fedora has become a niche oddity in the Linux distro field because they view the vast majority of potential users as scapegoats for some holier than thou OS delusion.
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15 years, 11 months
mutt can't lock nfs mounted 'sent' on fedora 8
by Dave Burns
Did fc8 change the default compilation or configuration of mutt in
some way that affects file locking? Or does mutt 1.5 have a new
default behavior?.
I have some cron jobs that use mutt to send attachments. (Mutt does
this better than mail or mailx.) My home dir is NFS mounted. On fc7
and previous, no problem. On fc8, when I execute:
# echo 'test email using mutt'|mutt -s 'test email using mutt'
<myemailaddress>
it hangs up for a while (can't interrupt it with cntl-c or background
it with cntl-z and bg) and then produces this error message:
fcntl: No locks available (errno = 37)
Couldn't lock /<myhomedirpath>/sent
When I run
# echo 'test email using mail'|mail -s 'test email using mutt'
<myemailaddress>
from the same context, it works immediately. So I am pretty sure it
is not sendmail causing the problem.
I don't really care whether my outgoing email gets saved in ~/send.
In fact I prefer not to save it. I tried asking about this on the
mutt list, got a cryptic response "use maildir". Mutt man page doesn't
mention "sent" folder locking, stuff about maildir no help.
Wish I could just get rid of NFS, but it owns me. Is there some
.muttrc setting I could tweak? man muttrc not unhelpful.
Thanks,
Dave
15 years, 11 months
Re: fedora-list Digest, Vol 50, Issue 223
by Vincent
> 1. Lost fc7 boot loader: (Vincent Onelli)
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:48:25 -0430
> From: "Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Lost fc7 boot loader:
> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <1209496705.27290.42.camel(a)bree.homelinux.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 14:59 -0400, Vincent Onelli wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Is there any way to restore the boot loader? I made dome error,
>> reinstalled the windows XP without first back up all the data in
>> fedora.
>> I have an HP Pavilion zv6000 with AMD athlon 64, 80 GB and 1GB of
>> memory dual boot with windows and Fedora 7 (fc8 will not install in
>> this computer, I also posted this problem but I did not get any
>> answer) the HD is partition at 40GB each. I try to restore using fc7
>> original disk used for installation but it does not restore the boot
>> loader.
>
> Do you have a Rescue disk? If so, use it to boot, do
> "chroot /mnt/sysimage" and then "/sbin/grub-install". If your
> old /boot/grub.conf file is OK, grub should install the bootloader. You
> might want to check that grub.conf has an entry for Windows so your dual
> boot will still work.
> poc
>
Thank you so much for the answer.
On the command /sbin/grub-install it return a message:
"install device not specified
USAGE grub-install [OPTION] install device
so I entered: "/sbin/grub-install fedora7"
this time was ok, but on reboot start the windows only.
what am I doing wrong?
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