GNU & Linux distribution iso downloader/maintainer/updater
by Renich Bon Ciric
Hello, Fedorans!
I recently discovered Beldi on our repos: https://belug.de/~beldi/
Very interesting. I, also, realized that I need some software like
this that automatically downloads my prefered distros for
avalability/testing purposes.
The only problem with beldi is that I can't make it de-select the
archs/ISOs I don't need/want.
If anyone knows of a program, script or rsync line that could help me
out with the following tasks:
- download the ISO files of my preferred distros
- update the iso files once the new ones are available and delete the
old one (if desired)
- get only my preferred archs
- provides a list of other distros as suggestions/proposals
This sounds like great software to me... is there anything available?
Does anyone have an idea of what to use?
I'm thinking there could be a central website that tracks download
tendencies and, possible, proposes distros based in your tastes.
Oh well, just dreaming about it. If anybody knows of something
similar, please tell me.
It's hard to be free... but I love to struggle!
Renich Bon Ciric
http://www.woralelandia.com/
http://www.introbella.com/
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.
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Colin Brace
Amsterdam
http://lim.nl
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14 years, 5 months
How to determine if a file is in use
by Donald Russell
Another system uses FTP to drop files in a directory for me to process.
I have a bash script to process the incoming files. The script is started by
cron periodically.
There's a problem if the FTP transfer is still in progress because the
process begins reading the file even though it isn't complete yet.
>From a bash script, is there a way to tell if the file is still being
written to?
I was looking at the lsof command, which will tell me if the file is opened
or not, so that's a possibility... but it sure seems awkward for the task.
I could also configure the ftp server to lock files being written, but that
seems to be discouraged. (based on man vsftpd.conf)
Basically, what I want is something like
Can I get an exclusive read on file x?
No - skip that file, go onto the next one
Yes - start processing that file
(I'm not concerned about the possible race condition there... I have other
protections for that)
Thanks for any suggestions...
14 years, 5 months
kbluetooth4
by jarmo
Any rumours, when kbluetooth4 is corrected. At the moment it is
unusable. No worky in F11. Tested also rawhide version.
Jarmo
14 years, 5 months
Problems running F11 from usb disk with newer kernels
by Jurgen Kramer
I am trying to run F11 from an USB disk to see if my new PC will run F11
happily before removing the proprietary OS that came with it. With the
original kernel (2.6.29-4-167) that came with F11 it boots nicely to the
GUI. Any newer kernel (2.6.30 series) stops booting after initializing
the attached USB devices like keyboard and mouse. It seems it will not
find the USB HDD. It just sits there waiting. No kernel panic.
When I unplug the USB HDD it will print a usb disconnect message.
Any thoughts on how to fix this? Are there boot delay parameters or init
scripts to tweak?
Jurgen
14 years, 5 months
HD freecom network drive
by François Patte
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I am looking for a howto about network drives.
I have a HD freecom network drive with ftp access and I am wondering if
I can mount this drive through the local network in order to use apps
like rsync to tranfer data to and from this drive.
All connections are made through a router.
Thanks for any advices
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François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université Paris Descartes
Tél. +33 (0)1 4286 2145
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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14 years, 5 months
package for basic examination of .dv video files?
by Robert P. J. Day
is there a package of basic .dv video file utilities, particularly
for just *examining* the properties of a .dv file? i've yum searched
and nothing jumps out at me. i'm just after some command-line
utilities that allow me to *inspect* the innards of various video file
formats, not necessarily do any transformations. thanks.
rday
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Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry.
Web page: http://crashcourse.ca
Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday
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14 years, 5 months
Driver to Radeon HD 4200?
by Erik P. Olsen
I have recently installed motherboard M4A785TD-M EVO from ASUS. It has an
integrated ATI Radeon HD 4200 graphics adapter.
With that I can build a Fedora 12 beta system using basic video and the result
is OK for most applications. But I would like to go a bit further, so which
driver should I install? Apparently there are fglrx and catalyst; which one
should I prefer? Or are there other possibilities?
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Thanks,
Erik
14 years, 5 months
Fedora IRC Classroom upcoming class
by Kevin Fenzi
Greetings.
This is a regular posting every monday,
letting people know about the upcoming IRC classroom sessions that are
scheduled.
From the Classroom page at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom
we currently have the following Classes scheduled:
2009-11-16 00:00 Kevin Fenzi - E-mail: server types; transport agents; spam and configuration
Note that this is in the evening in North America.
(Use 'date -u' to see your current time and date in UTC).
This is right before the Fedora 12 release day, so it would be great to have a
few more classess on the 15th and 16.
Please see the above page for more information on signing up to teach a
class, providing feedback to the classroom mailing list or other
general information.
Hope to see lots of folks there!
kevin
14 years, 5 months
OT Help needed
by kevin
Greetings Everybody still awake. :)
I have been working for almost 3 days trying to get my FC9, Amavisd-new, postfix and clamav working. I think I have it but need to check.
Could one of you please let me know how to edit the amavisd-new conf file so that it checks ALL email, even those local?
I have been searching online and can't find a reasonable solution.
thank you,
Kevin
Kevin O'Neil
Owner of Kevins Lair, ENT
14 years, 5 months
