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disk full
by ann kok 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

Hi What is the quick / easy way to find out which files in / to make the HD space full? Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda10 1004024 983848 0 100% / /dev/sda9 1004024 17676 935344 2% /opt /dev/sda6 2016016 35840 1877764 2% /tmp /dev/sda5 5036284 2622816 2157636 55% /usr /dev/sda3 5036316 452808 4327676 10% /var /dev/sda2 19322896 176204 18165124 1% /home /dev/sda1 1004024 37536 915484 4% /boot tmpfs 110680 0 110680 0% /dev/shm Thank you __________________________________________________________________ Instant Messaging, free SMS, sharing photos and more... Try the new Yahoo! Canada Messenger at http://ca.beta.messenger.yahoo.com/

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broken nis in rawhide?
by Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

Is there some reason why rawhide's ypbind should fail to bind, if I have nsswitch.conf = passwd: files nis shadow: files nis group: files nis <other stuff snipped> This worked fine on F10, and it works OK if I downgrade to the F10 ypbind rawhide. But with the rawhide version, the nis server reports errors like this: Feb 2 14:15:28 server2 ypserv[2312]: refused connect from 192.168.0.89:56329 to procedure ypproc_match (nisavtech,shadow.byname;-1) Has something changed with nis sharing of shadow password data? Reported as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483650 - Mike

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Slooooow USB key speeds
by Ranbir 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

Hi All, I have a Kingston 8G DataTraveler USB stick. When I plug it into one of the USB 2.0 ports on my Fedora 10 PC (x86_64), the kernel detects it, and after some magic, Gnome mounts it on my desktop - everything is honkey dorey. When I use Nautilus to copy files to it (say a 1 GB movie file), the transfer speed begins in the 20 MBps range, but quickly drops to 1.5 MBps or less. Obviously, this increases transfer time exceptionally, essentially rendering the USB stick useless. I've tried reformatting (as vfat) the stick, deleting and recreating the partition on it, all several times and to no avail. The same stick works just fine on my HP Compaq nx7400 Fedora 10 laptop. I now assume something is either amiss with my PC, or there's a bug somewhere in Fedora 10 killing USB performance. I've tried searching for both, but I've come up up with nada. My PC has an Asus P5Q-E motherboard, an Intel E8400, and 4 GB of RAM. Is there something about this combination of hardware (don't forget the USB stick) when used in conjunction with the x86_64 version of Fedora 10, leads to shitty USB performance? Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.27.9-159.fc10.x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 16:15:12 up 11 days, 20:31, 4 users, load average: 1.25, 0.83, 0.40

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Problems with nfs and Fedora 10 x86_64
by Margaret Doll 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

I am used to using portmap with nfs. Where is the documentation on the new rpcbind programs used on Fedora 10? When I try to mount a partition across the network on the new system, I am getting mount /numbers1 mount.nfs: rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote locking. mount.nfs: Either use '-o nolock' to keep locks local, or start statd. netstat -nlp | grep LISTEN | grep -v LISTENING tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2082/rpcbind tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 4501/sshd tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2648/cupsd tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2580/sendmail: acce tcp 0 0 ::: 111 :::* LISTEN 2082/ rpcbind tcp 0 0 ::: 22 :::* LISTEN 4501/ sshd When I try to mount one of the new system's partition on an older system, the older system says that the nfs server is not working.

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firewall suggestions
by Kevin Kempter 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

Hi All; I need a good network firewall that will give me web content filtering and VPN (or similar) access. Email spam filtering and ease of use would be a plus. Suggestions?

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Poor WiFi Performance
by Phil Bieber 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi everybody! I've recently switched from Ubuntu to Fedora 10 to escape a nasty problem I'm having but without luck. I have a DELL Inspiron 640m / e1405 notebook based on a Centrino chipset with an Intel 3945abg WiFi card and my network connection is painfully slow. I have a 16MBit/s ADSL connection (according to the router 14069 kbit/s down and 1189 kbit/s up) and when trying a speed test I get the following results with Epiphany on Fedora 10: Down: 200 - 250 kbit/s Up: 60-80 kbit/s With Internet Explorer 7 on Windows I get the following: Down: 7500 - 9700 kbit/s Up: ~1100 kbit/s I tried it 3 times on both OS's and within about 10 minutes. The results from my Fedora tests are way better than expected, because it sometimes takes up to 5 minutes to open google... The WiFi network I'm connected to is a WPA encrypted G network with the AP about 5 meters away from my notebook. I already did some googling but so far I haven't sound anything that helped. I even tried the Windows drivers using ndsiwrapper but I couldnt get them to load properly. The following is the output from lspci: [root@hekate ~]# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02) 02:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller 02:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19) 02:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a) 02:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05) 0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02) [root@hekate ~]# I would greatly appreciate any help you can give me! Thanks in advance Phil Bieber - -- Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life. Atheism is a non-prophet organization. GPG KEY ID (Philipp Bieber): 0x0185E301 FINGERPRINT: CA81 28C2 E63F DAF8 5ED4 DACB 7C26 EE5B 0185 E301 Philipp Bieber - philbieber(a)gmail.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Use GnuPG with Firefox : http://getfiregpg.org (Version: 0.7.1) iEYEARECAAYFAkl8xBMACgkQfCbuWwGF4wG+MQCfXMUrOTNIt6T+wMt92nrmy/mT S/8AoL7GiniAFIVDnFcY3AAcNKffiPCv =Yp8J -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Problem with totem
by gmspro 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

I typed this in the terminal. yum install totem-xine Output: Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments Package totem-xine-2.24.3-1.fc10.i386 already installed and latest version Nothing to do Then I typed this in the terminal /usr/bin/totem-backend -b xine totem After this when I trying to play a file like "dbgt35.rmvb" it starts playing the audio of that video file but it does not play the video .(black screen) After this I also typed this in the terminal. /usr/bin/totem-backend -b xine totem-video-thumbnailer Can anyone tell me what are these? totem-audio-preview totem-video-indexer totem-video-thumbnailer What do they do? Now if I check from Movie Player>help>About It says :Movie Player using xine-lib version 1.1.16.1 [Note:Same problem for gxine,dragonplayer,kaffeine. They play the sound of the video file like "dbgt35.rmvb" but can't play the video.(only the black screen) and trying to play with mplayer, message :Could not open required direct show codec drvc.dll but it plays the video with this message] rpm -qa | grep gstreamer Output: phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.2.0-7.fc10.i386 gstreamer-plugins-flumpegdemux-0.10.15-4.fc10.i386 gstreamer-tools-0.10.21-2.fc10.i386 gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.9-1.fc10.i386 gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.21-2.fc10.i386 PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-0.3.9-4.fc10.i386 gstreamer-plugins-bad-extras-0.10.9-1.fc10.i386 gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.11-4.fc10.i386 gstreamer-plugins-farsight-0.12.9-3.fc10.i386 totem-gstreamer-2.24.3-1.fc10.i386 gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.5-1.fc10.i386 gstreamer-0.10.21-2.fc10.i386 gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.10-2.fc10.i386 gstreamer-python-0.10.12-1.fc10.i386 rpm -qa | grep xine Output: xine-lib-extras-freeworld-1.1.16.1-1.fc10.i386 xine-lib-extras-1.1.16.1-1.fc10.i386 phonon-backend-xine-4.1.2-5.fc10.i386 xine-lib-1.1.16.1-1.fc10.i386 xine-0.99.5-5.fc10.i386 xine-lib-devel-1.1.16.1-1.fc10.i386 gxine-0.5.903-2.fc10.i386 totem-xine-2.24.3-1.fc10.i386 codecs are here: /usr/lib/codecs /usr/lib/win32 /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/local/lib/win32 Can anyone tell me the way to solve the problem. Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:29:47 +0100 From: Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: Problem with totem To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com Message-ID: <561c252c0901310329o54121b62u34703418bdf05d91(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:01:45 -0800 (PST) GMS S wrote: > Totem worked for me when i first installed Fedora 10. > But after re-installation of Fedora 10 ,this problem occurs. > Anyone knows the way solve this problem. Tipically I use xine engine with totem, instead of gstreamer. You can do: yum install totem-xine then you can use totem-backend to verify if setting xine as backend solves the problem and eventually set it as the default engine for totem. [gcecchi@tekkaman ~]$ totem-backend --help Error: No backend name passed. Usage: - As root, to set the default backend, system-wide: /usr/bin/totem-backend -b <backend name> - As a normal user, to run a program with a specific backend: /usr/bin/totem-backend -b <backend name> <program name> [program options...] - "backend name" is one of gstreamer or xine - "program name" is one of totem, totem-audio-preview, totem-video-indexer or totem-video-thumbnailer In totem gui you see the engine with Help --> About and with xine set you get in the window: Movie Player using xine-lib version 1.1.16.1 HIH, Gianluca

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Fedora 10 Update
by potat0 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

I am relatively new to Linux and need a lot of help. I did an update for core 9 and the next thing I knew I had been updated to Fedora 10. Fedora 10 boots and starts, does nothing for a while and then comes up with the following message: virbr0: Starting userspace STP failed, starting kernel STP and then just sits there and does nothing. I cannot access any of my work documents and am starting to panic. Please help :-? :-x RichardC -- This is an email sent via The Fedora Community Portal https://fcp.surfsite.org https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=322574&topic_i… If you think, this is spam, please report this to webmaster(a)fcp.surfsite.org and/or blame qa(a)akstone.co.za.

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Super user problem FC10
by Croombe F. Pensom 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

I have installed FC10 five times now but I can NEVER log in as root as it ALWAYS tells me that the authentication failed. I did the install very, very carefully as I thought that, maybe, I had goofed; but, no, I set up root password OK but still cannot do the login as root. The only way I can get to root operations is via sudo but, then, I can't get a gui running (I'm a bit lazy!!). Any ideas as to why I can't log in as root? CroombeFP -- This e-mail produced entirely under Linux. Absolutely NO M$ products have been used.

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Zip drive on FC10
by Croombe F. Pensom 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

After having used my Zip drive since FC4, I installed FC10. After install, the system tells me that the Zip drive is there OK. I put in a disk but the drive turns and the access light stays on but it won't mount. After that, it won't unmount either and the only way to fix the situation is power down and up again. The drive no longer appears when the "Computer" ikon is opened : floppy, yes, other HDs, yes, Kingston U stick, yes : but no Zip. I tried creating a suitable directory and then mounting, but it comes back and tells me that I must specify the file type. If I do that, it still doesn't mount. So, I went in as root, added a suitable line to fstab and fired up again : the same thing : can't get Zip to mount. This is frustrating as I regularly use these to store little bits of useful data without wasting blank CDs and previous FCs operated the drives OK. Again, suggestions would be appreciated. CroombeFP -- This e-mail produced entirely under Linux. Absolutely NO M$ products have been used.

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