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Upgrade from 8 to 9: Yes or no ?
by Martin Schoch 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Hello , silly - I know ;-) I have a Fedora 8 installation which runs perfectly - with webserver as Intranet with many modules -- runs without any problems. But Fedora 9 is out - should I make the upgrade or should I follow "Never change a running system"? As I understood many postings, an upgrade would be a very good idea - much better and more stable would be a very fresh Installation. Only then I would have to re-compile all my additional modules - I really do not know whether the effort worthwhile ... Someone made similar considerations and then did the upgrade then? -- Best regards, Martin mailto:mschoch@gmail.com

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Renaming a User
by Thomas Paine 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

I was wondering if it's possible to quickly and easily switch a username on a samba controlled domain. I have a user who got married and I need to change her login from sgillies to scampbell. Is there a quick way I could do this, or do I need to create a new user and then copy her data over? I've been reading, but I can't find anything to clearly tell me if I can or not. This in on a Windows XP network with a Samba DC. Thanks. -- -=/>Thom

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Xen commands help
by Dan Track 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Hi I want to install a xen VM, I know I can use the virt-manager, but I prefer not to use GUI's. Can someone please provide me a link to where I can read up on creating VM's from the command line? Thanks Dan

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Postfix smtp date problem
by Luc MAIGNAN 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Hi, I have a date problem with my smtp daemon (postfix). Postifx use several daemons I can see in /var/log/maillog. The problem is that all postfix dameons use my real time, except smtp wihich uses GMT time. How can I solve this issue ? BR

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Re: Seems I have some real problems
by R. G. Newbury 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Message: 13 Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:35:11 -0700 From: "Daniel B. Thurman" <dant(a)cdkkt.com> Subject: Re: Seems I have some real problems.... To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list(a)redhat.com> Message-ID: <485706BF.2050302(a)cdkkt.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" <snip> > Ugh. I just removed all the livna stuff from my F8 and it appears that I cannot install MythTV nor all of the other stuff I got from livna. Seems I cannot get everything I want from a single source repository? >This is the list that I removed from livna: <list deleted> >When I tried to install MythTV, I got: >[root@gold dant]# yum install mythtv >Loading "priorities" plugin >00:00 >primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 182 kB 00:02 >atrpms : ################################################## 716/716 >Setting up Install Process >Parsing package install arguments <list deleted> --> Running transaction check ---> Package libdc1394.i386 0:2.0.2-1.fc8 set to be updated ---> Package mythvideo.i386 0:0.21-190.fc8 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: transcode >= 0.6.8 for package: mythvideo ---> Package mytharchive.i386 0:0.21-190.fc8 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: transcode >= 1.0.2 for package: mytharchive --> Finished Dependency Resolution >Error: Missing Dependency: transcode >= 1.0.2 is needed by package mytharchive >Error: Missing Dependency: transcode >= 0.6.8 is needed by package mythvideo >[root@gold dant]# yum install transcode >Loading "priorities" plugin >Setting up Install Process >Parsing package install arguments >No package transcode available. >Nothing to do >Hmm.... I could not install transcode that the above is seeking as a dependency. >What gives? You actually did not need to remove EVERYTHING which was sourced from livna. There are a number of packages which are only available there, but the majority of the things needed by mythtv are built by Axel and available on atrpms...including the mythtv metapackage. It is intriguing that the transcode dependency failed as transcode 1.0.5 is available on atrpms. Are you sure you had atrpms enabled on that last try?... If you go to: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Fedora_8_-_Package_Dependencies you will see a long script which I wrote for myself some time ago and posted on the wiki. It's intended for a 'bare-metal' level install. Just copy and paste the whole thing into a file and chmod the file to make it executable. Note that first ou need the Fedora 'Everything' repo enabled and the atrpms and livna repos available and enabled in your yum.repos.d directory. After you have updated against Fedora Everything, you run the script and it steps through moving the unwanted .repo files out of sight and installing (with yum) the packages which we want from atrpms. It then swaps atrpms for livna and picks up the remaining required packages. (And I am not sure that all of them are listed as there are some myth plugins I have never tried to use and thus never built). This script does not install mythtv. I use SVN and compile myth separately. But when the script finishes you should be able to just enable atrpms and run 'yum install mythtv'. Note that these lists do not include xine-non-free and other livna packages which you had installed but removed. I suggest that you then browse to atrpms and individually select and install (with yum) any other non-myth packages you need, disable or move the atrpms.repo file, enable livna and then do the same: you should be down to only about a half dozen pacakges or so at that point which you can individually install with livna enabled. Remember to disable BOTH atrpms and livna. Thereafter use --enable-repo on the yum command line and NEVER EVER use 'yum update' with either enabled.. That's just asking for the trouble you are now in.... Geoff

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Miro no longer works
by Petrus de Calguarium 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Miro doesn't work anymore, likely since Firefox 3 upgrade. The program opens and there is a huge amount of internet activity, but the window remains a white blank and no video library or playlists or channel selector ever appears.

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F8 k3b problem or just random glitch?
by Tom Horsley 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

I left a DVD-R being written by K3B, and when I came back later, it said the verify failed because there were no tracks to verify. However, when I mounted the dvd and did a sha1sum of the files I'd backed up, they matched perfectly the files on the DVD. Can I attribute this to random cosmic rays or something? Or has the new kernel screwed up something k3b depends on? Or has some new "helpful" security feature made k3b fail? (I guess I'll see what happens the next time I have a chunk of files to backup :-). I have certainly done a backup with verify via k3b many times before under F8 with no problems, but this may be the first time since fedora 8 got a 2.6.25 kernel.

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rpcbind squating cups
by François Patte 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, Yesterday, my nework printer did not work. After searching a little bit, I discovered that rpcbind was squating port 631! Why? And how to avoid this? thanks. - -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)1 44 55 35 61 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIWm7cdE6C2dhV2JURAvokAJ0YDRWtOBsvZYbq/6CfTpj7C53FHgCg1BGu j3u29PDxVWlubop/ZubsT38= =IZWZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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I want to ask something
by Parshwa Murdia 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Dear all, I am new in linux. Can anyone help? I have installed FC5 in the linux but as it is very old, can anyone let me know how could I install the FC8 or FC9 directly from the net. Parshwa

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Help with understanding whether I have a 64 bit server
by Dan Track 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Hi I'm new into the 64 bit world. I've got to install rhel5 but I don't know whether my new server supports 64bit or not. Can anyone tell me how I could find out? Thanks Dan

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