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How-to customize gnome-settings-daemon?
by Marco Guazzone 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

Hello Fedora users, I'm running F11 with OpenBox (without GNOME) as window manager. In order to bring some GNOME facilities to the OpenBox environment I run gnome-settings-daemon at startup. My problem is that gnome-settings-daemon starts gnome-screensaver. Since gnome-screensaver does not work properly under OpenBox (actually It does not activate when computer is idle) I want to disable it (and run instead the xscreensaver screensaver). The only way I've found to prevent gnome-settings-daemon to run gnome-screensaver is to change system-level configuration files in /etc/gconf: * /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree.xml * /etc/gconf/schemas/apps_gnome_settings_daemon_screensaver.schemas The problem is that at every update of gnome-settings-daemon package, these files are overwritten. This is boring... :( Is there a way to change gnome-settings-daemon configurations locally, that is at user-level instead of at system-level? Thank you very much!! Cheers, -- Marco

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Re: Installing Windows after Fedora
by andy york 04 Oct '09

04 Oct '09

I agree with the go virtual suggestion. I prefer VirtualBox, use whichever, I can only attest that I've never seen WinXP run as smoothly and error free as it does as a VM. Use network bridge and network is all there as well as printers, etc. Configured properly a VM will do most anything a standalone system will provided there are sufficient resources on the host. ay

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Re: Last FC10 Kernel update - machine locks up after a fews hours or a day
by KC8LDO 04 Oct '09

04 Oct '09

Here is a copy of more of the log file below. Seems like various services are segment-faulting in the same system file - "libc-2.9.so". I think this was also one of the files that got updated the last time if I remember right. 73's Leland C. Scott KC8LDO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oct 4 09:01:01 localhost kernel: crond[26192] general protection ip:9317f4 sp:bfdff2d8 error:0 in libnss_files-2.9.so[930000+b000] Oct 4 10:01:01 localhost kernel: crond[26196] general protection ip:2917f4 sp:bfdff2d8 error:0 in libnss_files-2.9.so[290000+b000] Oct 4 10:05:36 localhost kernel: snmpd[2141]: segfault at 8 ip 00d755c8 sp bfcc8480 error 4 in libc-2.9.so[d16000+16e000] Oct 4 11:01:01 localhost kernel: crond[26200] general protection ip:20e7f4 sp:bfdff2d8 error:0 in libnss_files-2.9.so[20d000+b000] Oct 4 12:01:01 localhost kernel: crond[26204] general protection ip:2cc7f4 sp:bfdff2d8 error:0 in libnss_files-2.9.so[2cb000+b000] Oct 4 13:01:01 localhost kernel: crond[26207] general protection ip:3387f4 sp:bfdff2d8 error:0 in libnss_files-2.9.so[337000+b000] Oct 4 14:01:01 localhost kernel: crond[26211] general protection ip:c247f4 sp:bfdff2d8 error:0 in libnss_files-2.9.so[c23000+b000] Oct 4 15:01:01 localhost kernel: crond[26213] general protection ip:efd7f4 sp:bfdff2d8 error:0 in libnss_files-2.9.so[efc000+b000] Oct 4 15:34:49 localhost kernel: atd[2403]: segfault at 0 ip 0048a2f1 sp bfbac314 error 6 in libc-2.9.so[3b0000+16e000] Oct 4 15:34:49 localhost kernel: auditd[1802]: segfault at 0 ip 00de62f1 sp b7f241a4 error 6 in libc-2.9.so[d0c000+16e000] Oct 4 15:58:13 localhost kernel: audit: *NO* daemon at audit_pid=1801 Oct 4 15:58:13 localhost kernel: audit: audit_lost=1 audit_rate_limit=0 audit_backlog_limit=320 Oct 4 15:58:13 localhost kernel: audit: auditd dissapeared Oct 4 16:01:01 localhost kernel: crond[26221] general protection ip:12e7f4 sp:bfdff2d8 error:0 in libnss_files-2.9.so[12d000+b000] Oct 4 17:01:01 localhost kernel: crond[26223] general protection ip:1d87f4 sp:bfdff2d8 error:0 in libnss_files-2.9.so[1d7000+b000] Oct 4 18:01:01 localhost kernel: crond[26225] general protection ip:9787f4 sp:bfdff2d8 error:0 in libnss_files-2.9.so[977000+b000] Oct 4 19:01:01 localhost kernel: crond[26227] general protection ip:a6b7f4 sp:bfdff2d8 error:0 in libnss_files-2.9.so[a6a000+b000]

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Last FC10 Kernel update - machine locks up after a fews hours or a day
by KC8LDO 04 Oct '09

04 Oct '09

Since the last Fedora 10 kernel update from a couple of days ago my stable, up to then, FC 10 box now locks up regularly. The only thing I see in the log file is the message below: Oct 4 09:01:01 localhost kernel: crond[26192] general protection ip:9317f4 sp:bfdff2d8 error:0 in libnss_files-2.9.so[930000+b000] I see quite a few of these messages. Is this the reason why I'm seeing lockups? I found I may have to reboot the machine at least twice in a row to get it back to what appears to be a normal functioning state. The first reboot required the "Big Red Switch" since Nothing was working. As a test I removed the crond daemon, using yum extender, and then reinstalled it to see how it goes. Until I did the double reboot above even yum wouldn't work, complained about a python module being missing. Leland C. Scott KC8LDO

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Re: F11 and CD failure
by Dennis Mattingly 04 Oct '09

04 Oct '09

> I've just installed F11 on a small dell machine that had been running > FC8. Everything installed ok except it does not mount the CD when I > place one in the drive. I used the CD drive during the install of F11 > so I know the drive works, and I can use the CD I am trying to mount in > other machines so I know the problem is not the CD. I'm having similar issues today. I built a new computer, and installed Fedora 11 with standard 6 cd images. This computer has 2 cd drives. Now I try to use my cd drives, and I get some pretty crazy results: : Some music CDs auto-mount to my desktop, some don't : Some music CDs are detected by Audio CD Extractor, some aren't (Applications -> Sound -> Audio CD Extractor) : Fedora 11 doesn't detect LIVE CDs. I tried to run F10 LIVE CD / several Ubuntu LIVE CDs, and Fedora 11 still boots normall. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Re: Installing Windows afterFedora
by R. G. Newbury 04 Oct '09

04 Oct '09

Bill Davidsen wrote: > > I have managed to go for just under a decade without a Windows > > machine, but now I need to have such, and I'd like to add it to an > > existing machine with a large enough partition which was used as work > > area for a project since shipped. The problem is that while I've put > > Fedora (and Linux back to SLS and Slackware on 2.2 kernels) on Windows > > machines, I haven't done it with anything else after, Linux has always > > been "the last OS you'll ever need" for dual boot. > > > > I'm not worried about the grub.conf, but the boot sector could be an > > issue, I have seen reports that XP with patches and Win7 check the > > boot sector now (XP at patch level 3). other than having to rewrite > > the boot sector, is that going to be an issue? Any other things I > > should know? > > >Different people have different reasons for needing a Windows machine. >They also have different requirements. I also need a Windows machine >from time to time. But, I find dual boot an unnecessary evil since my >requirements don't include something like game playing. So, I've found >running Windows in a virtual machine a better option. Just wondering >if you've considered that option. You should seriously consider using a virtual WINXP setup. I have one program that I MUST run in XP. I gave up on the WIN box, and installed it using VirtualBox. Printing was a little weird to set up but works nicely to 2 different network connected printers. (reported here if you search the archive). I do not need sound, so it is untested but everything else works. And boot is waaayyy shorter in the virtual setup. Uses only 5Gig of disk space. And no messing with grub and mbr... 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."

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ibus still broken
by Stuart McGraw 04 Oct '09

04 Oct '09

I asked here a few days ago about ibus which broke after I did a yum update. No one responded but I saw some other posts about different problems with ibus so I waited until some new updates appeared. However after upgrading again just now, it is still broken -- still no input editor appears when I type the enable sequence. However now the (new) ibus icon says "no input window" when left-clicked. Is ibus ever going to work? I write non- english emails everyday and Fedora is useless to me without a working ibus. At this point I wonder if I should blow off Fedora and and just return to Windows?

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Okular cannot open files with filenames with spaces
by Paul Smith 04 Oct '09

04 Oct '09

Dear All, When trying to open a pdf file with a filename with spaces, Okular cannot open it. For instance, try to open the following pdf file: http://www.esferadoslivros.pt/pdfs/Contos%20de%20amor.pdf Okular did not exhibit this problem, say, one or two months ago. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul

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thunderbird 3b4 accounts problem
by brian 04 Oct '09

04 Oct '09

I've just installed TB3b4 (because 3b3 was driving me nuts). I use IMAP, so on startup, it proceeded to download everything (although I'm pretty sure 3b3 had already done that). Unfortunately, it appears to have screwed things up. I have several accounts; they're all listed on the left side, but I have just a single Inbox at the top that contains everything from the Inbox of each account. Does anyone know the safest way to back out of this mess? And, is this the "correct" behaviour? If so, I'm not a fan. Is there some way to start up TB without having it inflict its "Smart Folder" functionality on me?

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Missing icon in F11
by Antonio M 04 Oct '09

04 Oct '09

I realized that System monitor (although installed) was missing in my menu (I wouls say that at a certain point it has been deleted during some update). so using System/Prefernces/Menus I added a new item to exixting menu, but I couldn't find the correct icon on my PC....where should be the correct icon be located??? I found only utilities-system-monitor.svg in /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/apps. I guess that it is a mistake of alacarte.... Any idea??? -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag SIP: antoniomontag(a)ekiga.net

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