F12 installation stalled
by Robert G. (Doc) Savage
Trying to do a "darned near Everything" 32-bit installation on an old
Thinkpad A22p with 1GHz P-III/M and 512MB. Several hours in things
appeared to stall during the wesnoth-data RPM. I'm still seeing a fairly
steady disk activity light, but I suspect there may be a spanner in the
spokes. Switching to the F2 console, df shows no changes in disk space
used/available for the past 6+ hours.
Can I do anything at this point besides punt and start over? Is it
possible to go to the F2 console to stop/change/restart anything and
resume the installation?
--Doc Savage
Fairview Heights, IL
14 years, 5 months
Your experience of Firefox + HTML5
by Andrea
Hi,
recently Firefox has become capable of playing video directly without plugins.
It's the big HTML5 + <video> saga.
I'm running Fedora 11 super up to date and I have to say that this things works a bit but not very well.
Take for instance the home page of firefox and click bottom left
http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/video/
It's a good example of what does not work.
If I pause the video there is no way of starting again.
And the same for all other HTML5 videos I've seen.
Has anybody tried http://www.youtube.com/html5, this is even worse as it does not work even without
pressing pause.
14 years, 5 months
F12 - Can't configure services over a VNC connection
by KC8LDO
Does anybody check to see if the configurations work when running these new
distros on a head less box? I had problems with F10 being unstable on a P4
box, don't know if its a hardware or software issue. Started getting weird
messages about missing python modules, and other python errors, while trying
to run yum, some apps failed to work, couldn't even log in as root a few
times. It all started after one kernel update a while back and noticed some
file system corruption issues, garbage showing up in the folder listings.
Anyway that's all another story. I gave up on having it screw up so
installed F12 on the same hardware to see what happens.
After getting F12 going using VNC I tried configuring some services, the
normal enable - disable - start - stop stuff, using the GUI. It won't let
you do it. From a directly connected console OK, but not remotely. Same goes
for the Samba setup GUI too, won't work over a remote VNC connection. It
doesn't even ask for root privileges when you try to change something like
what happens with the directly connected console. I had to install the menu
editor app and manually change those two to open in a terminal window using
the (su -c "xxxxx") work around on the command line entry.
I've only had this version, F12, installed for the passed few hours and I'm
already finding simple stuff that doesn't work. I had similar experiences
with F10 as well. So the problem has been around for a while. Are these
simple PAM errors / miss configurations or what? I would think this would be
simple enough to fix and have it stay that way.
14 years, 5 months
Anyone using curlftpfs?
by Andrea
I get hangs of the Konsole running it (not just the terminal running it).
I need to kill curlftpfs.
14 years, 5 months
installation through Fedora
by Jerry Ro
Hi all,
This is almost like a riddle to me...
I want to install Windows XP on a computer that currently has only fedora
installed. It does not have a CD-ROM (not working) and I cannot boot from
disk on key, though I can access a disk on key on fedora. I have no internet
connection on that computer, but I can still copy files from another
computer through the disk on key.
How can I install windows XP on it?
One of my thoughts is to use fedora to create a FAT32 partition for Windows
and make it bootable, and then copy the Windows installation there. But I am
not sure about:
(1) how to create a partition while on Fedora, without being able to boot to
some program like gparted? I don't think I can repartition the disk while
running fedora from it.
(2) how to make the new partition "XP bootable" so I can install XP on it in
Linux? I know of a few Windows utilities to do that, not sure about Linux
any ideas on this bootstrapping process will be greatly appreciated.
happy thanksgiving to those who celebrate it.
14 years, 5 months
buffer overflow in system-config-httpd
by Robert G. (Doc) Savage
system-config-httpd-1.4.6-1.fc12.noarch appears to be badly borked:
# system-config-httpd
*** buffer overflow detected ***; /usr/bin/python terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
... long backtrace ...
3743809000-374380a000 rw-p 00009000 08:02 353257 /usr/lib64/libXcursor.so.1.0.2/usr/share/system-config-httpd/system-config/httpd: line 4: 2922 Aborted (core dumped) /usr/bin/python /usr/share/systemconfig-httpd/ApacheConf.py
Has anyone else noticed this and BZ'd it?
I don't see a newer version in fedora-testing and development has the
same version number.
--Doc Savage
Fairview Heights, IL
14 years, 5 months
F12 KDE questions
by Mick M.
Hello list;
I am running KDE under F12.
When I download a filel I get a popup in the upper right hand corner that tells me it has finished downloading.
This is in the way.
I prefer the F11 "stack" above the I/O box in the lower right hand corner- how do I revert to this?
Sometimes all the icons on my desktop get a big bright background box.
If I rollover the icon, or click on the desktop the box disappears.
This sometimes happens to the taskbar too.
I updated downloadhelper - but it fails, the directory is correct.
Thanks
Mick M
Standard guarantee applies - 30 feet or 30 seconds, whichever comes first.
# find / -name "*your base*" -exec chown us:us {} \;
14 years, 5 months
F12 install looses ext3 fs
by Geoffrey Leach
Installation of Fedora 12 (ie., not update) went well except that it
does not recognize two partitions that had ext3 file systems. Any ideas
on recovering?
14 years, 5 months
Reorganising F11 partitions - how to?
by DB
Hi all,
Again, thanks to all for the support, systems, ideas (& laughs - "The
Prius Upgrade" -- sounded a bit like my old Landrover!)
Ok... tried the F12-KDE Live cd & am very impressed, especially as it
decided "orl on its own" to treat my laptop screen & plugged in monitor
as a dual head where I spent 5 minutes looking for my cursor before I
realised it was on the other screen...... so now I wwant to use
preupgrade to zap 11 to 12.
When I first installed F11 on the laptop, I setup several partitions
(suggestions from O'Reilly's "running Linux"...), which now doesn't seem
such a good idea or necessary idea.
What I'd like to do is to move the contents of /usr /local & /tmp from
their individual partitions into the / partition & delete the individual
(now empty) partitions, sharing the space out amongs / and /Home.
Q1. Is this possible?
if yes,
Q2. Do I a) do the mv (or cp + rm) of the contents then b) use KDE4
Partitionmanager to unmount the partitions & modify the space and c)
remove the unneeded entries from fstab, restart & all is OK?
or Q3. Is there a way with one of the CLI partitioners to merge the
individual partitions with the existing / partition?
As ever, many thanks for taking the time to help me out!
Dave in freezing cold Rauris.
PS is therre a way of searching 'man' pages to look for "a command that
does 'x' "?
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