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Putting files (images in particular) in a 'custom' order
by Chris G 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

I seem to have this problem regularly but still haven't found a good solution. I currently use Digikam but the problem applies equally to other applications, I haven't found anything that does what I want. I want to select pictures randomly from various places (i.e. from various different Digikam albums) and place them in a new album in a specific order which has nothing to do with their dates, alphanumeric file name or anything of that sort (no pun intended!). *Surely* people want to be able to do this. Currently in my case it's simply because I have taken two sets of photographs of the same trip, one lot in one direction and the other lot in the opposite direction. I want to collate a set of pictures of the trip in 'geographic' order from the best images selected from the two albums. I can't find any way of doing this apart from laboriously renaming each image as I select it and even then if I change my mind and want to add one in the middle somewhere I've got a horrible re-ordering problem again. -- Chris Green

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[F8 x86_64] Pulseaudio w/USB Audio Device
by Sean Bruno 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

With my USB Turntable connected when I login to my desktop, pulseaudio sets it's default "sink" to the USB Audio subsystem instead of my onboard audio card. I had the same issue with alsa many moons ago, and was able to work around that with some modprobe.conf foo. Now, my configuration hacks don't seem to be able to tame the pulseaudio demon and I am at a loss. Any guidance on how to get pulseaudio to use the sound device I choose as the default sink? Sean

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Bootable FC9 Disk Copy
by Nickolas Gray 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

I am attempting to create a bootable copy of a running SELinux box on FC9. I think I am close but I am coming up with a kernel panic (text at end) Here are the steps and a brief reason. If anyone has any suggestions where I might have made a mistake or left something out a comment would be appreciated. The only requirements so far is that it has to be a disk to disk copy with no CD/DVD rescue involved and it has to use LVM Snapshot. The original looks like mbr on boot sector /dev/sda1 ext3 /boot /dev/sda2 LVM VolGroup00/LogVol00 is root VolGroup00/LogVol01 is swap This is what I am doing. • This seemed like an efficient way to dup the filesystems of the source to the target. sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb •Duplicate the MBR dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 bs=512k •Copy the entire /boot from a to b dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=664 count=1 •Add the /dev/sdb2 to LVM pvcreate /dev/sdb2 create the VolGroup for / vgcreate -s 32m VolGroup01 /dev/sdb2 Create the logical volume for / and swap lvcreate -l 1562 -n LogVol00 VolGroup01 lvcreate -l 62 -n LogVol01 VolGroup01 Create the swap area mkswap /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol01 Format the / filesystem mkfs -t ext3 /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 Create the snapshot lvcreate -L 20g -s -n snap /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 Mount the snapshot mount /dev/VolGroup00/snap /snapshot Mount the target mount /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 /target Rsync over the snapshot rsync -vXxpr /snapshot/* /target Unmount the snapshot umount /snapshot lvremove -f VolGroup00/snap At this point I fixed the initrd, the fstab and grub.conf on the target to point to VolGroup01 instead of VolGroup00. I would think this should be it. What I get is. root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ..... kerne /vmlinuz ...... Linux bzimage..... initrd / initrd .... Linux initrd Decompresing Linux ... Done Booting the kernel Red Hat nash version 6,0,52 starting Reading all physical volumes this make take awhile .... Found volume group VolGroup01 now active ERROR: exec of init (/sbin/init) failed failed!!!! No such file or directory ERROR: failed in exec of /bin/echo: No such file or directory a couple messages about not finding /bin/sleep Kernel Panic I am not really sure where this is getting to. I thought it was getting to the initrd but now I am not sure. Thanks Nick -- fedora-selinux-list mailing list fedora-selinux-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list

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upgrade to fc9 and lost mouse pad enter
by Jim Duda 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

I updated my laptop from fc8 to fc9. Due to dependencies, I had to remove gnome-panel. I reinstalled gnome-panel and all the other stuff that was removed, but apparently, I missed something. My touch pad continues to work as a mouse, however, I cannot use the mouse pad as an enter key. I cannot double-click on the mouse pad as a select tool. Can anyone tell me where/how this is controlled in gnome? Is there some "manager" I need installed which might have been inadvertantly deleted? Thanks, Jim

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cryptsetup luksOpen reporting "Command failed: Invalid offset"
by Philippe A. 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

My attempts to open a luks container fail with the following messages: sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/loop2 test.crypted Enter LUKS passphrase for /dev/loop2: key slot 0 unlocked. Command failed: Invalid offset As a result, the mapper never gets created in /dev/mapper. The commands I am using to create my container are the following: dd if=/dev/urandom of=test.crypted bs=1M count=256 sudo losetup -d /dev/loop2 sudo losetup /dev/loop2 /phil/test.crypted sudo cryptsetup -c twofish -s 256 luksFormat /dev/loop2 The resulting container appears to be valid as shown by cryptsetup luksDump: LUKS header information for /dev/loop2 Version: 1 Cipher name: twofish Cipher mode: cbc-plain Hash spec: sha1 [snip] However, no mapper after the luksOpen. I have a non-luks 'vanilla' container that works. Can anyone help me figure what I'm missing? Thanks!

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Automounting Camera-USB mass storage
by Chris G 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

Is is easy to get a USB Camera to automount in Fedora 8, if so how do you do it? I have an Olympus C-460 camera and I'm getting fed up with having to look in /var/log/messages to see what the device name is and then manually issuing the mount command. -- Chris Green

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A simple bash case question...
by Dan Thurman 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

I am trying to figure out how to do the following: case $foo in "one" || "two) process_One_Two ;; "three") process_Three ;; "four" || "five") process_Four_Five ;; *) echo "Nothing to process" ;; esac The problem I am having is getting "one" || "Two" or "four" || "five" to work - so as to consolidate two or more strings per case statement line, otherwise I would have code duplication. Any advice? Thanks! Dan

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wifi enabling
by narendraw1 palavalli 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

hai i have installed fedora9 recently in my hp pavillion dv 9617nr laptop it has a broadcom802.11b/g wireless card i m not able to connect to the network i tried even giving the ip address and tryin its not possible so please can u help me with this

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Where the h%^&^%$#! is KDE 4.1 ? Part III
by linux guy 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

So where the #$%^&*( is KDE4.1 ? And don't tell me its in testing ! I don't want to be a beta tester anymore.

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Avahi, nautilus and ssh
by Christoph Höger 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

Hi there, I can remember that somewhen an ubuntu notebook detected all ssh capable servers in a net via avahi and nautilus offered access to them via places -> network. For fedora 9/8 (in both directions) that is not the case, although ssh is working, avahi is running on both machines and a ssh service file is placed in /etc/avahi/services. Why do I not see an "access this pc via ssh" button in places -> network but have to use "connect to server" for nautilus access? Is that a regression or do I miss some config? regards christoph

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