xfig font failure
by John Thompson
I haven't used xfig since updating from Fedora-10 to Fedora-11, and
today when I finally had occasion to try it, it doesn't work:
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
Warning: Cannot convert string "6x13" to type FontStruct
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Google tells me that Debian people found this results from a missing
"gsfonts-X11" package, but Fedora has no such package.
What am I missing?
--
-John (john(a)os2.dhs.org)
14 years, 8 months
KDE RPMs look strange -- duplicates?
by Jonathan Ryshpan
I have trouble with the KDE solitaire program (shameful to admit). It
keeps putting up an error box saying:
We are sorry KbuildSycoca closed unexpectedly
and offering to let me submit a but. Unfortunately the bug submission
procession produces similar messages.
And, in fact, invoking "$ kbuildsycoca4" (which appears to be the actual
program causing the trouble) fails, producing a similar error box.
Looking over the situation, I noticed a strange thing about the KDE RPMs
on the system. There seem to be duplicates, namely:
kdegames-libs-4.2.4-1.fc11.x86_64
kdegames-libs-4.3.0-2.fc11.x86_64
kdegraphics-libs-4.2.4-1.fc11.x86_64
kdegraphics-libs-4.3.0-1.fc11.x86_64
kdelibs-4.2.4-6.fc11.x86_64
kdelibs-4.3.0-6.fc11.x86_64
kdelibs-common-4.2.4-6.fc11.x86_64
kdelibs-common-4.3.0-6.fc11.x86_64
kdepimlibs-4.2.4-1.fc11.x86_64
kdepimlibs-4.3.0-2.fc11.x86_64
kdepimlibs-akonadi-4.2.4-1.fc11.x86_64
kdepimlibs-akonadi-4.3.0-2.fc11.x86_64
Is this normal, or is something out of line? I run Gnome mostly, but
use some KDE applications.
Thanks - jon
14 years, 8 months
Where is pulseaudio started?
by Steve Blackwell
I found this article:
http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/172-Wednesday-Why-...
but it appears that it no longer applies.
$ ps -ef | grep pulse
steve 30603 1 0 10:07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio
--start --log-target=syslog
so either pulseaudio was started by init or whatever started it has
since died. Anyway it is not started by gnome-session.
$ ps -ef | grep gnome-session
steve 30486 17079 0 10:07 ? 00:00:00 gnome-session
I can't find any reference to pulseaudio in any init file
# grep pulse /etc/*init*
#
So where does it get started?
Steve
14 years, 8 months
FC11 - KVM based VM become halt after heavy rsync
by MOHAMMAD MATEEN ASLAM
>> Any one facing same problem?..
........
>You don't say quite what you're doing, but if you are just copying the
>data (that is, there isn't a destination that is nearly the same), you
>might not need to use rsync at all, but some other file copy utility
>instead, such as scp (slow but secure and reliable). Umm, when I want
>to copy a few GiB from a VM to the host, I now shut down the VM and
>mount its root locally, and do a normal copy.
yes i am doing also doing --delete and --exclude some directories from a list. Here is command i am using
rsync -e ssh -l bkp-user -avR --delete --exclude-from=${EXCLUDES}
@Tony as i mentioned earlier, i am using my host VM for heavy REMOTE backups
so I cant shutdown/mount any of my REMOTE live box to take backup.
I have taken very big backups in past on xen based VM's.
Chocking Network due to heavy rsync is something amazing for me.
Any other solution will be appreciated.
Regards, Mateen
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14 years, 8 months
F11, OpenLDAP: can append to files, but not write, acl not a mount option
by Brian Neu
I've installed a new F11 server, w/OpenLDAP. Users access an lvm/ext4 volume via netatalk & samba. Selinux is permissive.
Some users were getting "sharing violation" or "disk full" for afp and smb respectively on some existing files, though 2.2TB are free and new files were fine.
I found that when opening a shell as these users (#su - username), they indeed could NOT edit the files, at least with vim. What they could do was "append" to the files via "# echo 1 >>badfile.html ". Then after appending, vim would write to that file just fine and netatalk & samba were now happy with that file too.
I've run lsattr, I've run setfacl to list permissions, I've updated the kernel, I've rebooted, I've run fsck, I've checked "mount" for acl, I've checked syslog . . . I'm stumped.
I thought that if you couldn't write, you couldn't append either? Any ideas?
~]# rpm -q openldap-servers kernel pam
openldap-servers-2.4.17-2.fc11.x86_64
kernel-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64
pam-1.0.91-6.fc11.x86_64
14 years, 8 months
F11: CTRL-ALT-F2 not working
by Alain Spineux
Hi
when pressing CTRL-ALTF-F2 to switch to text console, the screen stay
in graphic mode, only the mouse cursor disappears.
I can blindly login, type some command; see the hard disk light blink
at each command, then go back using ALT-F1 and see I logged in on
tty2.
But switching between tty1 an tty2 never change my display.
I have a Laptop Compaq Evo N610c with a ATI RADEON Mobility M7.
It was working fine with FC8.
Any idea ?
--
Alain Spineux
aspineux gmail com
May the sources be with you
14 years, 8 months
Web server on virtual box - iptables design question
by jaivuk
Hi guys,
I have F11 on the physical box and under KVM I have virtual system where I
run Apache as a web server. Physical box has two public IPs - one is used
for physical box management,
anohter (VDMZ_PUBL_IP) is used to access virtual system. Virtual system
itself has private IPs, so I have NAT configured in IPTABLES. It also means
that virtual system is not aware of it's public IP and it "thinks" it has
only the private IP. Also please note to make things simple - I do not have
IPTABLES rules set on the virtual server - all rules are set on physical
server only.
First I made SSH work so I can log-in into virtual system - it works fine.
Then (using the similar rules) I configured Apache on virtual box - and it
works from outside as expected.
However before I setup web application from outside successfuly, I was
forced to setup a fixed URI link in my application - which I did as
http://public_IP/ to make it work from outside.
My (design) problem occured when I discovered that actually I cannot access
my Application using public IP directly from virtual system (=from inside) -
as I have no rules for this situation.
I tried to add some - but it did not work, however I'm in doubt if it can
work at all:
My idea was to set the rule in PREROUTING (on the physical box) in a way
that if virtual server tries to access its own public address, it will be
changed back to private one and (hopefully) forwared back:
I tried both of below rules (one at a time) and none really worked:
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p TCP -i virbr0 -m physdev --physdev-in
vnet1-d $VDMZ_PUBL_IP -j DNAT --to-destination $VDMZ_PRIV_IP
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p TCP -i virbr0 -d $VDMZ_PUBL_IP -j DNAT
--to-destination $VDMZ_PRIV_IP
However now I'm in doubt if this is ever possible:
- Will iptables allow packet to be forwarded back to the same interface
where it was received from?
- Or should I set some rules in Apache itself using mod_rewrite? (so in such
a case packet won't leave the virtual machine)
- Are there any risks with that when I decide to use HTTPS? (However HTTP
only from inside of the virtual system and HTTPS from outside is acceptable
as well)
Is there any other solution so I can access my own system from the virtual
system using it's public IP?
Thank you in advance,
iaiv
14 years, 8 months
gdm login has no keyboard , session , windows manager menu
by Eric Doutreleau
Hi
i have just installed a fedora 11 laptop.
but when i got the login screen
i don't get any keybord session or window mamanger menu in the down bar
i only have the accessibility menu and the clock.
does someone know how to solve that problem?
i use gdm-2.26.1-13.fc11.i586
14 years, 8 months
Re: Is YUM really a secure pacakage manager ?
by Akshay Wattal
Hi,
Lately i did some research on security issues related to
differnt package managers including YUM and found out that
there can be some vulnerabilities in YUM. So far YUM checks
the signature which is on each individual package,In this
model, the package manager has no signatures to check until
it gets to the point where it downloads the actual packages
it intends to install.
Keeping this in mind the vulnerabilities that are possible
are as follows:
---->Metadata Manipulation Attack: The attack in
this case involves a malicious party responding to a package
manager’s request by making their own metadata, There are
two main things attackers can do First, they can
mix-and-match the versions of packages that are listed.
Second, they can trick clients into thinking that packages
have different dependencies and provide different
functionality than they really do.
In mixing-and-matching vulnerable package versions by
listing them in the same metadata given to a client,
attackers make it more likely that, whatever new package a
client installs, it is installing a version with a known
vulnerability.
---->Freeze Attack: In this an attacker can keep giving
the client a single version of the metadata starting at one
point in time (that is, “freezing” the metadata), the
attacker can prevent the client from knowing about new
metadata and thus new packages that are available that fix
known vulnerabilities.
---->Endless data Attack: It involves a malicious party
responding to a client request, be it for metadata or for a
package, with an endless stream of data. The possible
effects include filling up the partition where the package
manager saves downloaded files or exhausting memory.
These are few "possible" vulnerabilities which can be found
in YUM.
Thanks
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