OT- Skype phone question
by Frank Cox
Many of you probably know a lot more about this than anyone I could ask around
here, so even though this is off topic for this mailing list I would like to
ask everyone's indulgence for the following question:
My wife is from a very small island nation, and no long distance plan that I've
ever seen includes long distance to or from that location. Calling "home"
costs a fortune.
However, since Internet is now available there, it seems to me that Skype
will be the answer for her mother to be able to call and receive calls from
family members around the world without running up a huge phone bill.
Since her mother is an elderly lady who has never used a computer, I'm thinking
that the solution would be for her to get an Internet connection and one of
those Skype phones that plug directly into a modem with no computer
required. Her mother won't be intimidated by "just a telephone" and she would
actually use it. (Yes, an Internet connection just for use with Skype would
be well worth the cost.)
I'm looking for a recommendation for a good Skype phone to get for this
purpose, and where to get one. They use 220v power there, but that shouldn't
be much of an issue -- I think almost everyone there has 110v stepdown bricks
for various small appliances. And, as far as I know, an ethernet connection is
an ethernet connection so a phone we get here should plug into whatever she gets
for a modem.
--
MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
15 years, 1 month
Re: Firefox 3 hogging 90% CPU, can anything be done about this?
by Hugh Caley
I'm not sure I agree with all of the arguments about "oh closed source,
don't use it". The fact is that Firefox allows the use of proprietary
plugins, for better or worse. It doesn't prevent me from using things
that don't agree with it's own license (thankfully; I'd rather have this
crappy Flash integration than none). Open-source alternatives are fine,
but try to find a new machine that doesn't use an ATi or Nvidia graphics
card. And I can't imagine the time it would take to come up with a
complete drop in replacement for Flash.
Proprietary is here; we need to deal with it. Now, my own point is that
a single Linux user has about zip power to influence Adobe. I think
Redhat and to a lesser extent the Mozilla organization has a lot more.
There should be direct talks between these commercial operations about
problems like these, and if there have been, it'd be nice to know.
Also, Firefox allows a single bad plugin to make the brower unusable.
Maybe it shouldn't do that? Seems to me there's a legitimate argument
to be made there.
I don't think the "that's proprietary, deal with it" arguments are helpful.
Hugh
> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:20:39 -0700
> From: Craig White <craigwhite(a)azapple.com>
> Subject: Re: Firefox 3 hogging 90% CPU, can anything be done about
> this?
> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using
> Fedora." <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <1239668439.13027.648.camel(a)lin-workstation.azapple.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 16:26 -0700, Hugh Caley wrote:
>
>
>> > I do definitely get the problem on sites such as youtube; however, I
>> > also get the problem on sites that don't have any obvious flash content,
>> > and frankly, I'm not sure which ones at this point. Flashblock doesn't
>> > seem to catch all of them. Still trying to find out.
>> >
>> > I think it would be a good thing if Fedora and Mozilla/Firefox talked
>> > with Adobe about fixing this.
>>
> ----
> just so you understand that Adobe ships Flash (and of course Adobe
> Reader and everything else) in what we tend to refer to as a binary blob
> and thus only they retain the source code. While some of the Adobe
> software might be free in terms of no cost, they aren't free as in open
> source and so the only set of eyeballs that ever looks at the program
> code is theirs.
>
> The distinction is a very important one. Adobe has sole responsibility
> for compatibility as they can download the source code for Mozilla
> Firefox and fully understand how to implement their software in Firefox.
> The responsibility completely lies with Adobe and if you are unhappy,
> you should be complaining to Adobe, not the list. The list might help
> you with some workarounds but that's going to be as far as it goes.
>
> The ultimate solution would be to use the open source variants (perhaps
> gnash) because then you could participate in the software development.
>
> No one from Fedora or Mozilla software development is going to waste
> their time on Adobe proprietary software that they can't even see the
> source code to possibly make a knowledgeable suggestion.
>
> Craig
>
>
> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by
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--
Hugh Caley, Linux Administrator
Aldon Computer Group
6001 Shellmound St. Suite 600
Emeryville, CA 94608
(510) 285-8542 | hughc(a)aldon.com
15 years, 1 month
SeLinux error starting vncserver
by Michael Eager
I get several SeLinux violation when I start vncserver.
I resolved two by following the instructions and creating
a local policy, but I can't seem to resolve this one:
SELinux is preventing ck-get-x11-serv (consolekit_t) "read" to ./.Xauthority (user_home_dir_t).
I have tried the suggestion to run "restorecon -v './.Xauthority'"
but that didn't seem to make any difference.
Any suggestions on how to resolve this?
--
Michael Eager eager(a)eagercon.com
1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077
15 years, 1 month
Fedora 9 and Suse 11.0 ssh do not work together
by Dave Feustel
I am running 32-bit fedora 9 and 64-bit Suse 11.0 and 64-bit OpenBSD 4.4
on a local net. Ssh does not work between F9 and Suse 11.0. Ssh
from f9 to Suse times out. An ssh connection from Suse to F9 is refused
by F9. Ssh from F9 to OpenBSD works. Ssh from OpenBSD to Suse times out
at login. SSh from OpenBSD to F9 is denied (publickey,gssapi-with-mic).
I was surprised that these 3 system do not talk to each other with their
default config files. Is there a common set of config files with which
all ssh connections work?
Thanks.
15 years, 1 month
crash in btrfsck
by Carl D. Roth
I crashed btrfsck fairly easily; there doesn't appear to be a btrfsck man-
page. Also, I cannot find a bugzilla.redhat.com category for it (btrfs-
progs-0.18-4.fc11.i586):
[roth@t60 ~]$ btrfsck -h
Segmentation fault
[roth@t60 ~]$ sudo yum --enablerepo='*-debuginfo' install /usr/lib/
debug/.build-id/eb/30dde67c6d1fcac3437a4bb2e9bff1e7fea9ff.debug
...
[roth@t60 ~]$ gdb btrfsck
GNU gdb (GDB) Fedora (6.8.50.20090302-21.fc11)
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/
gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i586-redhat-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
(gdb) r -h
Starting program: /sbin/btrfsck -h
warning: Unable to open "librpm.so" (librpm.so: cannot open shared object
file: No such file or directory), missing debuginfos notifications will
not be displayed
Missing separate debuginfo for /lib/ld-linux.so.2
Try: yum --enablerepo='*-debuginfo' install /usr/lib/debug/.build-
id/48/283e7deeb3fcd5c04551326fa7507d3412deb6.debug
Missing separate debuginfo for /lib/libuuid.so.1
Try: yum --enablerepo='*-debuginfo' install /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/57/
aea3dccf7425e7031c185e7616436a93551e7a.debug
Missing separate debuginfo for /lib/libc.so.6
Try: yum --enablerepo='*-debuginfo' install /usr/lib/debug/.build-
id/6a/5fc17148e02664a1598b1f4d7fee2579821b73.debug
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
check_extents (root=0x0) at btrfsck.c:2008
2008 root->fs_info->tree_root-
>root_key.objectid);
(gdb) list
list
2003 exit(1);
2004 }
2005
2006 add_root_to_pending(root->fs_info->tree_root->node, bits,
bits_nr,
2007 &extent_cache, &pending, &seen,
&reada, &nodes,
2008 root->fs_info->tree_root-
>root_key.objectid);
2009
2010 add_root_to_pending(root->fs_info->chunk_root->node, bits,
bits_nr,
2011 &extent_cache, &pending, &seen,
&reada, &nodes,
2012 root->fs_info->chunk_root-
>root_key.objectid);
(gdb) thread apply all bt full
thread apply all bt full
Thread 1 (process 2463):
#0 check_extents (root=0x0) at btrfsck.c:2008
extent_cache = {root = {rb_node = 0x0, rotate_notify = 0}}
seen = {root = {rb_node = 0x0, rotate_notify = 0}}
pending = {root = {rb_node = 0x0, rotate_notify = 0}}
reada = {root = {rb_node = 0x0, rotate_notify = 0}}
nodes = {root = {rb_node = 0x0, rotate_notify = 0}}
path = {nodes = {0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0xc0eba0, 0xc0e948, 0x0,
0x0},
slots = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, reada = 0, lowest_level = 0,
search_for_split = 0}
key = {objectid = 381908491958458559, type = 8 '\b',
offset = 3221218881}
ret = <value optimized out>
last = 8227906564924124975
leaf = <value optimized out>
ri = {inode = {generation = 484136950010265826,
transid = 1152921504606846976, size = 8124493597865672693,
nbytes = 15114080222217027501, block_group =
8083176521201664060,
nlink = 23866723, uid = 268435456, gid = 2, mode = 3288334352,
rdev = 1297248759981326559, flags = 2305843009347911680,
sequence = 576672124920397794, reserved =
{14123288433849794560,
5530420214568632543, 144115190491824190,
1153133571905421312},
atime = {sec = 6629298651769864169, nsec = 2998927330}, ctime
= {
sec = 4663477277173006334, nsec = 2684403703}, mtime = {
sec = 4035225266136023016, nsec = 0}, otime = {
sec = 8791026472677539840, nsec = 939572983}},
generation = 1152921504606846976,
root_dirid = 12157467056659759081, bytenr = 123848889235668973,
byte_limit = 14123499358905171968,
bytes_used = 14123498927126790367,
last_snapshot = 16987577673444278495, flags =
7834011516109111054,
refs = 2751988869, drop_progress = {objectid = 525446,
type = 0 '\0', offset = 0}, drop_level = 0 '\0', level = 0
'\0'}
__PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "check_extents"
#1 0x0804d74a in main (ac=2, av=0xbfffe484) at btrfsck.c:2078
root = 0x0
ret = <value optimized out>
C
15 years, 1 month
Logwatch problem?
by Gene Heskett
Greetings all;
Fedora 10 install, pretty well upto date, quad core phenom 9550, 4GB ram,
kernel 2.6.30-rc2. Uptime is about 6 days.
I noticed my machine was lagging badly, so I took a look with htop, and
/usr/bin/perl /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/shared/onlyservice init
is using 99% of a core (4 core machine) and /dev/sda3 is showing about a
15Meg/sec continuous read operation. This has been going on for at least an
hour.
What is it doing?
And why?
Thanks.
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Manly's Maxim:
Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion
with confidence.
15 years, 1 month
Wireless Woes
by Seann Clark
All,
I am very new to wireless in linux ( I can so so new it almost hurts
actually) I understand about 70% of what I need to do, but there is
information that I need that is long since forgotten by me (It has been
years since I have had to fight with an OS to find an interface) so I am
looking for help.
I bought a Lynksys USB 801.11G NIC, and have been playing with that
(rt2870sta is the driver it uses, and/or is supposed to use, based on
what I extracted from both ndiswrapper and the Windows stuff for it) and
I have the module loaded properly. After I get this set up I get to move
along into seeing if I can get the WPA2-Enterprise setup working (yeah,
that should be amusing, if I can get it working on Linux, I will have
another bargaining chip to get the Sig/Other off Doze as a main system,
as XP home doesn't seem to play well with that level of wireless)
Thanks in advance, and my details for output are below the sig,
~Seann
From my syslog:
Apr 20 09:24:29 laptop yum: Installed:
kmod-rt2870-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64-1.4.0.0-1.fc10.9.x86_64
Apr 20 09:25:14 laptop kernel: rtusb init --->
Apr 20 09:25:14 laptop kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver
rt2870
Detailed from my lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1737:0077 Linksys
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0x1737 Linksys
idProduct 0x0077
bcdDevice 1.01
iManufacturer 1 Ralink
iProduct 2 802.11 g WLAN
iSerial 3 1.0
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 67
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0x80
(Bus Powered)
MaxPower 450mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 7
bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class
bInterfaceSubClass 255 Vendor Specific Subclass
bInterfaceProtocol 255 Vendor Specific Protocol
iInterface 5 1.0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes
bInterval 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x01 EP 1 OUT
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes
bInterval 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x02 EP 2 OUT
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes
bInterval 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x03 EP 3 OUT
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes
bInterval 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x04 EP 4 OUT
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes
bInterval 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x05 EP 5 OUT
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes
bInterval 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x06 EP 6 OUT
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes
bInterval 0
Device Qualifier (for other device speed):
bLength 10
bDescriptorType 6
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
bNumConfigurations 1
Device Status: 0x0000
(Bus Powered)
15 years, 1 month
services-service-management
by Krishnamoorthy Kappagantula
Any help is appreciated to make services window to come up without all
being greyed out.
Krishna Kappagantula
15 years, 1 month
