users February 2009

users@lists.fedoraproject.org

428 participants
591 discussions

RPM Fusion needs a maintainer for the package madwifi in F11 and later
by Thorsten Leemhuis 21 Feb '09

21 Feb '09

Attached mail FYI -- if you want to step us as maintainer for madwifi please contact me (existing Fedora contributors or maintainers with existing packaging skills would be ideal for the job). Madwifi will be dropped from RPM Fusion for F11 and later if no one steps up to maintain it. Feel free to forward this mail to other channels if you think it makes sense to do so. CU knurd

1 0

qemu-kvm: qns regarding network and usb keyboard setup
by Suvayu Ali 21 Feb '09

21 Feb '09

Hi all, Recently I started experimenting with kvm with F10 as the host, and I have been having some problems. I need to login to my virtual machine from the shell from the host itself and/or from another machine remotely over the internet. I went through the man pages but couldn't make anything out of it. I am a newbie so could someone please point me to a resource where I can read up more on this which is a little more understandable? As for my keyboard problem, I can't seem to use my arrow keys inside the VM and for some odd reason the up arrow key seems to behave as the print screen key. Neither can I go to a virtual terminal using Ctrl+Alt+<Fn key>. everytime I press Ctrl+Alt it releases the keyboard input and I am back in the host. However using Ctrl+Alt+f to go to full screen works. So far I have tried this with F11-alpha, Debian-lenny and a customized image of SL 4. (I posted about this about a week back, there was one response but I couldn't really understand what was said and there were no follow up posts. so apologies for repeating this again) Kernel: 2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64 keyboard: Logitech Internet 350 (USB) Thanks in advance. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.

5 18

F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?
by McGuffey, David C. 21 Feb '09

21 Feb '09

Rather than configuring a dual-boot machine for running those occasional Windows apps, which one of these virtualization tools provides the best (read most accurate) virtualization environment on F10? Which one is the easiest to install and configure? I had problems with VMWare on F7, and would prefer not to go that route again. I have no experience with the other two. Dave McGuffey Principal Information System Security Engineer // NSA-IEM, NSA-IAM Save a Tree...Unless necessary don't print this e-mail

14 19

Network Manager problem with wpa_supplicant
by John Wendel 21 Feb '09

21 Feb '09

On my newly installed F10 box, NM insists on starting wpa_supplicant, but I don't have any wireless devices. How can I configure NM so that it doesn't run wpa_supplicant? Thanks, John

4 4

how to enable mysql on php interpreter
by David Antonio Garcia Campos 21 Feb '09

21 Feb '09

Hi everyone, Im using fedora 10 ,mysql, apache and php are installed. but everytime i use mysql_connect, my php script just dies. from the phpinfo i see that mysql is not enabled: './configure' '--build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--target=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib64' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/usr/com' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--cache-file=../config.cache' '--with-libdir=lib64' '--with-config-file-path=/etc' '--with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php.d' '--disable-debug' '--with-pic' '--disable-rpath' '--without-pear' '--with-bz2' '--with-curl' '--with-exec-dir=/usr/bin' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-xpm-dir=/usr' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--with-t1lib=/usr' '--without-gdbm' '--with-gettext' '--with-gmp' '--with-iconv' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr' '--with-openssl' '--with-png' '--with-expat-dir=/usr' '--with-pcre-regex=/usr' '--with-zlib' '--with-layout=GNU' '--enable-exif' '--enable-ftp' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-sysvsem' '--enable-sysvshm' '--enable-sysvmsg' '--enable-track-vars' '--enable-trans-sid' '--enable-yp' '--enable-wddx' '--with-kerberos' '--enable-ucd-snmp-hack' '--with-unixODBC=shared,/usr' '--enable-memory-limit' '--enable-shmop' '--enable-calendar' '--enable-dbx' '--enable-dio' '--without-mime-magic' '--without-sqlite' '--with-libxml-dir=/usr' '--with-xml' '--with-system-tzdata' '--with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs' '--without-mysql' '--without-gd' '--without-odbc' '--disable-dom' '--disable-dba' '--without-unixODBC' '--disable-pdo' '--disable-xmlreader' '--disable-xmlwriter' '--disable-json' '--without-pspell' can anyone let me know how i can enable mysql on php? Thanks, Dave

3 3

User unlock too frequent -
by Bob Goodwin 21 Feb '09

21 Feb '09

I'm trying to configure F-10 on a new computer, an effort that takes considerable time. I collect information on this computer and then when I turn back to the "new" computer it's sleeping and requires me to jog the mouse and enter a long password again. I don't mind doing that but over the course of a day I am repeating that pointless action a "hundred times!" There must be a way to extend the idle interval before this is happens? How do I change it? Bob

6 8

Can I set DPI for login window (GDM)?
by Konstantin Svist 21 Feb '09

21 Feb '09

I connected my computer to a 52" TV (1920x1080, HDMI) - and it shows me huge fonts on the login window. They're so large, that some of the text runs off screen. Is there a way I can tell it to use the normal (96?) DPI? Thanks

3 5

Re: kubuntu vs fedora initrd init files
by Jackson Byers 21 Feb '09

21 Feb '09

Mikkel responded: To tell if Ubuntu does the same thing, you would have to do the same type of install. The reordering of the disks is because of two reasons. The first is because of the BIOS, and affects Grub. When you boot from a USB device, that device becomes BIOS drive 80, or Grub drive hd0. This is because what ever hard drive you boot from is automatically set to BIOS drive 80. This is also true when you tell the BIOS to boot from the second hard drive in the machine. The other reason affects the kernel ordering. How the kernel assigns drives depends on the module loading order. Because you have to load the usb_storage module from the initrd, the USB drive is the first controller scanned. (There are ways to change that, but it not easy.) This affects any kernel, or distribution that uses modules. You run into the same thing when you install Ubuntu to a USB drive. That is why a USB install is only offered as an expert install. Mikkel ------------------ ikkel, thanks for response. As is often the case, your response if full of info. I am trying to absorb it all. > To tell if Ubuntu does the same thing, you would have to do the same > type of install. First, let's be sure we are on same page. What I did was to boot a usbexternaldisk copy of main fc5. (this was not an anaconda install to the usbdisk) I did this 2ways, each with its own grub.conf stanza 1) using kernel,initrd from a kubuntu 6.06 dapper this boots, disks are _not_ reordered ie usb is seen as sdc 2) using the kernel,initrd of the fc5copy(same as in mainfc5) this boots, disks _are_ reordered ie usb is seen as sda But, my bios does not see the usb disk, so in _both_ cases I copied the /boot files from the fc5copy into sdb3 = (hd1,2) This makes it some kind of usb/scsi hybrid bc the /boot files are on sdb So when you say "have to do same type of install" I think you mean, make a usbdisk copy of the kubuntu install (now on sdb5) and then use the kubuntu kernel,initrd to boot this. Then, if this again results in disks _not_ reordered, only then will be able to see "if ubuntu does the same thing". Correct me if I am not understanding you. this will take some time, but I want to go thru with it. I first have to mv the fc5copy out of the topdir of the usb(its one large partn) and have my backup scripts do the copy of the kubuntu install to topdir of usb. Jack

2 1

F10: hal/fdi/policy fdi files not working?
by wwp 21 Feb '09

21 Feb '09

Hello all, after I installed Fedora 10, I copied my HAL policy files (/etc/hal/fdi/policy/*.fdi) from my old Fedora 8 so that my external USB disks get mounted as there were previously. I restarted hald, but inserting disks don't mount them automatically. According to lshal, the keys defined in my .fdi files should match. I pruned /var/log/message for hal output but nothing appears there, thus I started hald manually with --verbose=yes --use-syslog, but even if hald activity is shown, it doesn't show any error or talk about .fdi files. Any hint? Did something change in the way hal can be used to automount devices since Fedora 8 or did I miss something? Regards, -- wwp

1 0

Can somebody explain this? du & ls showing different sizes
by Vijay Gill 20 Feb '09

20 Feb '09

Hi I just came across this issue on my server at home which complained about the lack of space which I knew was wrong. It was supposed to have atleast 3.5 gig free. On investigating I found that there a few lines showing the following behaviour. Running du -h tells that the file occupies 512M but ls -l tells that the file is a lot smaller. Also I am sure the the cluster size is not 512M (or am I wrong there?). I have provided the relevant information from fstab, du, ls and uname and if more info is needed, I can provide that too. But is there a solution to this problem? Vijay /dev/sda2 / xfs noatime,nodiratime,async,allocsize=1M,noikeep 0 0 [root@aria ~]# du -sh /var/log/httpd/* | grep M 512M /var/log/httpd/webserver-access_log [root@aria ~]# ls -l /var/log/httpd/webserver-access_log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2884214 2009-02-15 16:18 /var/log/httpd/webserver-access_log [root@aria ~]# xfs_info /dev/sda2 meta-data=/dev/root isize=256 agcount=4, agsize=524121 blks = sectsz=512 attr=2 data = bsize=4096 blocks=2096482, imaxpct=25 = sunit=0 swidth=0 blks naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0 log =internal bsize=4096 blocks=2560, version=2 = sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=0 realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0 [root@aria ~]# uname -a Linux aria 2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 02:09:37 EST 2009 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

5 18

← Newer
1
...
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
...
60
Older →

Jump to page: