Gnome applications and .bash_profile
by Jonathan Ryshpan
It looks like environment variables set in .bash_profile are visible
to applications started in gnome but not via a shell. For example
evolution knows when I modify LC_COLLATE.
But how? Here's the invocation chain from login down to evolution -- no
shells here.
1710 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon
14284 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/libexec/gdm-simple-slave --display-id /org/gnome/Disp
14285 tty7 Ss+ 0:43 \_ /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -br -verbose -auth /var/run/gdm/auth-
14366 ? S 0:00 \_ pam: gdm-password
14413 ? Ssl 0:00 \_ gnome-session
14523 ? Sl 0:00 \_ metacity
14536 ? S 0:00 \_ gnome-panel
14537 ? S 0:00 \_ nautilus
14542 ? S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /usr/lib64/firefox-3.5.4/run-mozilla.s
14651 ? Sl 0:41 | \_ /usr/lib64/firefox-3.5.4/firefox
14543 ? Sl 0:17 \_ evolution
What am I missing?
Thanks - jon
14 years, 5 months
Installing Fedora on USB DiskOnKey and booting from different machine
by Mark Ryden
Hi,
I installed Fedora 11 on a DiskOnKey. I booted from this DiskONKey
successfully on the machine
on which I made the installation. However, when I tried on two
different machines, it failed, and it reached the
grub command line. On a third machine it reached a line containing the
word GRUB only.
I wonder - is there a way to install Fedora 11 on a DiskOnKey so that
it will boot from any machine (which is capable of booting from USB )?
Note: I had made my trials on motherboards after verifying that these
motherboards **do** support boot from
USB disk on key.
This is the grub.conf on the USB DiskOnKey:
title Fedora (2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64 ro root=UUID=e73e50db-2420
-4792-a347-3e15ed38c5b9 rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64.img
Regards,
Mark
14 years, 5 months
How to run a php script which contains a pdf
by Nigel Henry
I was trying to read an online tool catalogue, and noticed a PDF button at the
bottom of the webpage. Clicked on it, and it opened the dialog box to
download. What has been downloaded though is a .php script (27.3MB).
The properties shows that it contains a pdf document, but I've no idea how to
run it, open it, or whatever needs to be done, to get to see the PDF.
Any suggestions folks.
Nigel.
14 years, 5 months
New scanner/printer combo
by Gene Heskett
Greetings;
My truly ancient Epson C82 finally refused to respond to the head cleaning
paddles yesterday, so I went out and got a new Epson NX515 combo scanner &
printer.
It signs on as: (Fedora 10, kernel 2.6.32-rc5)
=====================
Oct 23 20:27:15 coyote kernel: [598891.940960] usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 16
Oct 23 20:27:15 coyote kernel: [598892.079434] usb 1-4: New USB device found, idVendor=04b8, idProduct=0856
Oct 23 20:27:15 coyote kernel: [598892.079437] usb 1-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Oct 23 20:27:15 coyote kernel: [598892.079440] usb 1-4: Product: USB2.0 MFP(Hi-Speed)
Oct 23 20:27:15 coyote kernel: [598892.079442] usb 1-4: Manufacturer: EPSON
Oct 23 20:27:15 coyote kernel: [598892.079444] usb 1-4: SerialNumber: 4C454C593037313524
Oct 23 20:27:15 coyote kernel: [598892.079540] usb 1-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Oct 23 20:27:15 coyote kernel: [598892.087345] usblp2: USB Bidirectional printer dev 16 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04B8 pid 0x0856
Oct 23 20:27:15 coyote kernel: [598892.088576] scsi10 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Oct 23 20:27:20 coyote kernel: [598897.090894] scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access EPSON Storage 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Oct 23 20:27:20 coyote kernel: [598897.091362] sd 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg9 type 0
Oct 23 20:27:20 coyote kernel: [598897.101631] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdi] Attached SCSI removable disk
Oct 23 20:27:23 coyote hal_lpadmin: File "/usr/libexec/hal_lpadmin", line 717, in main#012 h = HalLpAdmin()
Oct 23 20:27:23 coyote hal_lpadmin: File "/usr/libexec/hal_lpadmin", line 686, in __init__#012 self.addPrinter()
Oct 23 20:27:23 coyote hal_lpadmin: File "/usr/libexec/hal_lpadmin", line 700, in addPrinter#012 printer.add()
Oct 23 20:27:23 coyote hal_lpadmin: File "/usr/libexec/hal_lpadmin", line 541, in add#012 location=os.uname ()[1])
Oct 23 20:27:23 coyote hal_lpadmin: IPPError: (1025, 'client-error-forbidden')
=========================
which appears that the scanner, ahh, wait, its got a card reader in it too,
in addition to ethernet and bluetooth. So that explains /dev/sg9 and /dev/sgi.
So there are two problems, which do not prevent it from being used for all
sorts of utility printing.
Problem 1 is that the newest Epson/gutenprint drivers are for the NX400
series, so the maximum useable resolution is 1440x720, whereas it can go
as high as 5760x2880. I would like to be able to get to 2880x2880 for photo work.
Problem 2 is that the scanner doesn't even check in as shown above.
OTOH, I also have an Epson 1250u that works flawlessly, but it would be nice
to get rid of one rather high occupancy item here in the coyote.den.
The current xsane device dialog skips it, going directly to the Epson 1250u,
so xsane isn't seeing it, and while I have kooka according to the menu's, it
doesn't come when called.
Has anyone a clue to pass along?
Thanks.
--
Cheers, Gene
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soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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14 years, 5 months
Intel GMA 500 problems on Eee
by Colin Brace
Hi all,
I have installed F11 on an Asus Eee PC 1101HA which has the GMA 500 chipset.
After running yum for updates, I now have two kernels installed:
kernel-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586
kernel-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i586
For the GMA 500, I installed the following:
Oct 28 00:28:57 Installed: psb-firmware-0.30-4.fc11.noarch
Oct 28 00:28:58 Installed: xpsb-glx-0.18-5.fc11.i686
Oct 28 00:28:58 Installed: libdrm-poulsbo-2.3.0-10.fc11.i586
Oct 28 00:29:46 Installed: rhpxl-1.12-2.fc11.i586
Oct 28 00:29:48 Installed: system-config-display-1.1.3-2.fc11.noarch
Oct 28 00:29:48 Installed: livna-config-display-0.0.23-1.fc11.noarch
Oct 28 00:29:48 Installed: kmod-psb-4.41.1-10.fc11.2.i586
Oct 28 00:29:51 Installed:
kmod-psb-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i586-4.41.1-10.fc11.2.i586
Oct 28 00:29:58 Installed: xorg-x11-drv-psb-0.31.0-15.fc11.i586
If I boot the original kernel, X boots OK, only the startup complains about
not finding "psb.ko". Ok, that makes sense; I only have the 2.6.30 version
installed. But if I boot the latest kernel, the boot process hangs at some
point after "Starting UDEV..." (no error message is displayed).
There are a few lines in the system log but they don't tell me much:
Oct 28 01:13:05 pollux kernel: psb 0000:00:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level,
low) -> IRQ 22
Oct 28 01:13:05 pollux kernel: [drm] psb - 5.0.1.0046
Oct 28 01:13:05 pollux kernel: [drm:psb_do_init] *ERROR* Debug is 0x00000000
Oct 28 01:13:05 pollux kernel: psb 0000:00:02.0: firmware: requesting
msvdx_fw.bin
Oct 28 01:13:05 pollux kernel: fbcon: psbfb (fb0) is primary device
Oct 28 01:13:05 pollux kernel: [drm] fb0: psbfb frame buffer device
Oct 28 01:13:05 pollux kernel: [drm] Initialized psb 4.41.1 20090416 on
minor 0
Can anyone give me some pointers on how to determine what is going wrong
here? The Xorg log isn't much help. Also, is there a way of forcing the boot
process to stick with text-only? Booting at run level 3 doesn't seem to do
the trick.
Thanks.
-----
Colin Brace
Amsterdam
http://lim.nl
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14 years, 5 months
Impossible to access boot menu
by Marcel Rieux
I try to access the boot menu, where you can choose a kernel and,
whatever key I press, I can't stop the countdown and access the boot
menu.
I checked /boot/grub/grub.conf and I have hiddenmenu in it. But the
back-up, /boot/grub/grub.conf~ dates back to August and has hiddenmenu
in it too. Since I accessed the boot menu since August, I suppose this
is not the problem.
14 years, 5 months
F11: Exchanging messages within the house
by lanas
Hi all,
Is there a package in Fedora 11 that would allow the exchange of
messages within the members of a family, w/o having to go to the
internet and have these shipped using external email accounts ? I'm
thinking of a nice and simple way of leaving messages for others such
as notes and such. An extension on this would be to have a wiki I
guess. I'm looking for something simple to setup. Is there such a
thing ? All computers in our house are using a version of Fedora
(mostly 11).
Thanks for any suggestions.
14 years, 5 months
A question about the future of qemu package
by Athmane Madjoudj
hello all
After the release of qemu-0.12 which will drop kqemu support,
How we will accelerate qemu on a no virtualization capable CPU ?
currently i use fedora 11 with my own build of qemu rpms (with kqemu support)
Best regards.
--
Athmane Madjoudj
14 years, 5 months
How to list this data -
by Bob Goodwin
I can extract the following usage data from the Wildblue html usage screen.
I would like to have them in a file that would put the data on a
horizontal line separated by some white space perhaps.
My objective being to keep a record of daily bandwidth usage. [35% or
6.0 gB is my current usage, 17.0 the 30 day download allotment, the
other numbers for upload usage.]
[bobg@box9 ~]$ cat /home/bobg/usg.txt
35 %
6.0
17.0
8 %
0.4
5.0
I've been puzzling over this since yesterday, I'm sure there must be a
simple solution but I just haven't found it.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
Bob
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14 years, 5 months
