Kernel update nuked my machine
by Smith, Herb
Tuesday evening the automatic updater downloaded a kernel update. After
rebooting all I get is a totally black screen with "GRUB_" in the upper
left corner of the screen. It responds to nothing on the keyboard.
This is a dual boot Dell machine with FC10 and Windows XP.
Any suggestions? Is there something I can do with the rescue CD or is
it best to wait for FC11 and try to just do an update from there?
Thanks in advance.
Herb "I now own a boat anchor" Smith
15 years
Fedora and jabber MSN gateway
by wwp
Hello there,
does anybody here has ever set up a jabber daemon with a full-featured
MSN gateway on a Fedora? Are there helpful howto's online for that?
Regards,
--
wwp
15 years
A wallet mystery
by Timothy Murphy
I've been looking at KWallet,
and see that it assigns a number
to the various applications for which it keeps a password.
For example, if I left-click on the wallet icon in my panel,
and then left-click on the wallet icon in the window that comes up,
I see two applications, kmail and knode, listed.
If I left-click on kmail, and then on Passwords,
5 entries come up, with names like Account-224797954
and Account-73485003.
Evidently these account numbers refer to KMail accounts,
in most cases from the distant past.
But how does one find what accounts these numbers refer to?
The numbers are repeated in ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/
but there is no indication as far as I can see
of what exactly they correspond to.
It seems that each account in KMail must have an identification no,
but where it can be found escapes me.
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin
15 years
help
by B SUDHIR
Hi
I'm using fedora core 5 i'm not able to install mozilla firefox tarball to
get latest version,Unable to play movies in totem media player it's showing
error that it needs a decoder,unable to use openoffice it says it needs jre
even though i installed it help me i can't use earlier versions because i
have less graphics memory
15 years
Java applications acting up with KDE4.2.3, Qt, nvidia drivers, etc.
by linux guy
I've got 2 Java applications that I like to use that don't work properly
anymore.
a) Cronometer. http://spaz.ca/cronometer/ It crashes the entire
session when it runs. It looks like redraw doesn't work. I think
cronometer uses the swing library.
b) Eclipse's Visual Editor.
I do Java development in Eclipse and I use the Visual Editor (VE) to
make the GUIs. VE ran fine in about April or so. I fired it up today
to make a few changes and the GUI in the editing Window disappears from
time to time. Eclipse and VE use the SWT library.
Prior to now, VE was very stable. I've used it for the last several
years.
I am running F10 stable, x86, KDE 4.3.2, etc.
How would I troubleshoot these issues ?
Thanks
15 years
incomplete shutdown
by Thufir
I recently installed Fedora 10, however the system says that it's
shutdown completely but the power doesn't go off, I have to flip the
swithc in the back to turn it off.
I've run into "restart" not restarting, and having to hit the restart
switch before, but an incomplete shutdown's more of a hassle.
If it helps, here's the hardware:
[thufir@arrakis ~]$
[thufir@arrakis ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661FX/M661FX/M661MX
Host (rev 11)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS AGP Port
(virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS964 [MuTIOL Media
IO] (rev 36)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev
01)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1
Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1
Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1
Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0
Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI
Fast Ethernet (rev 91)
00:05.0 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] RAID bus
controller 180 SATA/PATA [SiS] (rev 01)
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter
[thufir@arrakis ~]$
thanks,
Thufir
15 years
hardware for fedora
by Stuart McGraw
Hello all,
Time has come to replace my ancient circa 2001
computers with something new. I will probably
buy the parts and build them myself (although
if anyone can recommend a vendor that uses
high quality components, I'll consider that
as well) but want to make sure I end up with
systems that can run Fedora trouble free.
I'm planning on two identical boxes, one running
an Evil Empire OS, the other Fedora. I want good
performance (the Fedora box will be running servers
(postgresql, apache, postfix, dns, etc) as well as
acting as an interactive development machine.
Although I want good performance, having a trouble
and complication-free install and operation is
higher priority.
I have just spent several days of mostly fruitless
googling and found large amounts of out-dated,
questionable, ambiguous, contradictory, and other
not-so-good info.
What I would really like is a collection of tested
specifications: "I used a Fruble-2500 motherboard,
Caterpillar D50 Case, a Dustin Wigetal XZ123 250G
hard drive, Sparker T800 800W power supply,...blah,
blah..., and F10 installed and ran with no problems".
Does any one have any hardware "recipes" like this
(or a pointer to a web site with some?) Thanks.
15 years
Screensaver usurpation
by Beartooth
This is far from new; I've seen it with the last several releases
of Fedora, and keep forgetting to ask about it.
I happen to prefer xscreensaver, which always insists on
installation that gnome-screensaver be installed, too. So I install it,
and make sure it's xscreensaver that I run.
Often, however, it stops working after a while. When that
happens, and I launch it, it gives me two messages. One says gnome-
screensaver's daemon, or something, is running, and asks whether to stop
it. Given that, it then says its own is not running, and asks whether to
start.
I've tried the big hammer more than once -- told yum to remove
gnome-screensaver; but it always threatens to take xscreensaver with it.
Is there anything I can do about this usurpation? Or if not,
might some developer in an idle moment take a hard look at the
dependencies?
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
15 years
