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Icon for File Type
by Sawrub 28 Oct '10

28 Oct '10

Hello List, I have a torrent file, which on double clicking correctly with transmission, but the icon is that of a text file. Can some one point to the way of changing the icon for all of the torrent files in my directory with something visually appealing and meaningful. I had been able to change the icon for a single file by going through Properties and changing the icon, but the same does not work for all files in one go. Also to mention the application associated is transmission with all of the files as checked by `gnomevfs-info`. Any help is welcome, Thanks -- Saurabh Sharma Linux user number: 490644 http://sawrub-blog.blogspot.com/ Open your doors.......It's time to look beyond Windows

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Sendmail Ldap routing
by Harley Race 28 Oct '10

28 Oct '10

I am using plain vanilla install of Fedora 13 and sendmail (sendmail-8.14.4-5.fc13.i686). In past versions of Fedora I was able to use sendmail to perform ldap-less routing using: LDAPROUTE_DOMAIN(`mydomain.com')dnl FEATURE(`ldap_routing',`hash -T<TMPF> /etc/mail/mailroutes',`null',`bounce')dnl If I use the same settings in the sendmail.mc and try to build the sendmail.cf using the command: ./Build sendmail.cf I get the following error: *** WARNING: missing -T<TMPF> in second argument of FEATURE(`ldap_routing') If I add -T<TMPF> to the second parameter like so FEATURE(`ldap_routing',`hash -T<TMPF> /etc/mail/mailroutes',` -T<TMPF> `null'',`bounce')dnl and build the sendmail.cf, I get the following error in maillog: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 173: readcf: config K line, map ldapmra: no map class If I check sendmail.cf for ldapmra, where past version populated the field with null, this one will not. What has changed in this version?

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mail to another machine on the LAN
by Hiisi 28 Oct '10

28 Oct '10

Hi, all! I would like to send messages to another machine on my home LAN. My current configuration is: Main computer (F12, serves as router), is connected to the Internet via eth0. It shares its connection for two LAN machines - one is Win XP laptop connected to the main computer on eth1 and the other is sitting on eth2. It is an old Pentium III charged with Scientific Linux (I want to send mail to this machine from main computer). Currently I'm unable to send mail to it using this command on the router: mail <user>@192.168.3.30 where <user> is the desired user on that host and 192.168.3.30 is host IP. The message sends but nothing appears in <user>@192.168.3.30 mailbox :-( How can I fix it? By the way, I'm able to send mail to that user from any other account on that computer. Please advise! TIA -- Disk crisis, please clean up!

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Last Kernel update left me without initramfs
by Federico Marziali 28 Oct '10

28 Oct '10

Hi all, with Fedora 13, the last kernel update left me without the file intirmafs in the /boot partition. All the rest is there, and I was wondering if there is an easy way to build this file myself... Any tutorial available for fedora? I tried to use the previous kernel file just by renaming it but it won't work. I get an error from iptables (can't have the slightest idea why) and from the nvidia drivers (this I guess since I installed the new ones together with the last kernel, so the old intiramfs has some reference to the old nvidia drivers module??) Any hint appreciated. Otherwise, I would just wait a couple of days and installa Fedora 14... although this seems to me a very windows-approach style :) BTW, can someone explain to me what checks are being made by yum to ensure that this doesn't happen? Thanks in advance, Fede

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Fedora 13 PAE Kernel and realtec driver compilation problem.
by EredicatorX 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

Short version. OS: Fedora 13 Kernel: 2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686.PAE Hardware: Lenovo x100e Problem:Trying to build drivers for realtec wireless lan. When I tried to build drivers initally with rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0018.1025.2010 every time I would try to load the driver with modprobe it would error and say " Invalid module format" modprobe r8192se_pci FATAL: Error inserting r8192se_pci (/lib/modules/2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686.PAE/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/r8192se_pci.ko): Invalid module format I modified /usr/src/kernel/2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686/Makefile and changed EXTRAVERSION = .7-61.fc13.i686 TO EXTRAVERSION = .7-61.fc13.i686.PAE I then did "make modules" which generated a new version of version.h & utsrelease.h which had the correct PAE version in it. The build error out after that. Went back to my sources and did a make clean, make and then make install. modprobe r8192se_pci now cause a core dump. I have built kernels in the past but it has been a long time and never had to build a PAE version. What else would be required for me to change in order to build the kernel modules correctly and then build the driver? In the end I am not trying to compile a custom kernel I simply want to use the kernel I have and be able to build drivers against it as needed. Thanks in advance. I included core dumps and other info in the long version below. LONG VERSION: Built driver rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0018.1025.2010 make make install All finished ok. modprobe generates this error. [root@etop rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0018.1025.2010]# modprobe r8192se_pci WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it will be ignored in a future release. FATAL: Error inserting r8192se_pci (/lib/modules/2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686.PAE/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/r8192se_pci.ko): Invalid module format dmesg output r8192se_pci: version magic '2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686 SMP mod_unload 686 ' should be '2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686.PAE SMP mod_unload 686 ' vim Makefile and changed /usr/src/kernel/2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686/Makefile EXTRAVERSION = .7-61.fc13.i686 TO EXTRAVERSION = .7-61.fc13.i686.PAE [root@etop 2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686]# make modules CHK include/linux/version.h CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h make[1]: *** No rule to make target `missing-syscalls'. Stop. make: *** [prepare0] Error 2 Finally modprobe and coresponding core dump from dmesg modprobe r8192se_pci dmesg: Linux kernel driver for RTL8192 based WLAN cards Copyright (c) 2007-2008, Realsil Wlan Driver rtl819xSE 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 rtl819xSE 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 rtl819xSE:region #1 not a MMIO resource, aborting ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at net/core/dev.c:4888 rollback_registered_many+0x88/0x1ad() Hardware name: 3508CTO Modules linked in: r8192se_pci(+) nls_utf8 fuse rfcomm sco bridge stp llc bnep l2cap sunrpc cpufreq_ondemand powernow_k8 ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 ip6table_filter ip6_tables ipv6 uinput snd_hda_codec_conexant snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm btusb thinkpad_acpi r8169 bluetooth uvcvideo snd_timer cfg80211 wmi snd_page_alloc snd mii videodev rfkill v4l1_compat joydev i2c_piix4 serio_raw soundcore k8temp microcode aes_i586 aes_generic xts gf128mul dm_crypt video output usb_storage radeon ttm drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit i2c_core [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan] Pid: 6777, comm: insmod Not tainted 2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686.PAE #1 Call Trace: [<c043f30a>] warn_slowpath_common+0x6a/0x81 [<c07174a2>] ? rollback_registered_many+0x88/0x1ad [<c043f333>] warn_slowpath_null+0x12/0x15 [<c07174a2>] rollback_registered_many+0x88/0x1ad [<c0717636>] rollback_registered+0x28/0x2d [<c071768e>] unregister_netdevice_queue+0x53/0x70 [<c0717754>] unregister_netdev+0x1d/0x24 [<f8cbe707>] rtl8192_pci_probe+0x579/0x5b7 [r8192se_pci] [<c05c2d70>] local_pci_probe+0x13/0x15 [<c05c3940>] pci_device_probe+0x48/0x6b [<c065366b>] driver_probe_device+0xca/0x1d2 [<c06537bb>] __driver_attach+0x48/0x64 [<c0652c78>] bus_for_each_dev+0x42/0x6c [<c065345b>] driver_attach+0x19/0x1b [<c0653773>] ? __driver_attach+0x0/0x64 [<c0652f04>] bus_add_driver+0xfe/0x244 [<c05ae22b>] ? kset_find_obj+0x23/0x4e [<c0653a26>] driver_register+0x81/0xe8 [<c05c3b00>] __pci_register_driver+0x3d/0x9a [<f7f24000>] ? rtl8192_pci_module_init+0x0/0x118 [r8192se_pci] [<f7f24107>] rtl8192_pci_module_init+0x107/0x118 [r8192se_pci] [<c040305b>] do_one_initcall+0x51/0x13f [<c0468fa1>] sys_init_module+0xac/0x1e3 [<c0408c9f>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28 ---[ end trace 71022fdbb6758c02 ]--- BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000d8 IP: [<c0781fcb>] packet_notifier+0x19/0x12b *pdpt = 0000000032966001 *pde = 000000013e737067 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP last sysfs file: /sys/devices/virtual/net/pan0/statistics/collisions Modules linked in: r8192se_pci(+) nls_utf8 fuse rfcomm sco bridge stp llc bnep l2cap sunrpc cpufreq_ondemand powernow_k8 ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 ip6table_filter ip6_tables ipv6 uinput snd_hda_codec_conexant snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm btusb thinkpad_acpi r8169 bluetooth uvcvideo snd_timer cfg80211 wmi snd_page_alloc snd mii videodev rfkill v4l1_compat joydev i2c_piix4 serio_raw soundcore k8temp microcode aes_i586 aes_generic xts gf128mul dm_crypt video output usb_storage radeon ttm drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit i2c_core [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan] Pid: 6777, comm: insmod Tainted: G W 2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686.PAE #1 3508CTO/3508CTO EIP: 0060:[<c0781fcb>] EFLAGS: 00210286 CPU: 0 EIP is at packet_notifier+0x19/0x12b EAX: 00000000 EBX: c09d2648 ECX: f2a3fe04 EDX: 00000011 ESI: f2a3fe04 EDI: 00000011 EBP: f2a3fdf4 ESP: f2a3fde4 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068 Process insmod (pid

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No audio, video plays at 8x
by Alex 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

Hi, I'm not sure what happened, but just this afternoon, perhaps after the most recent set of FC13 updates, I have no audio and video plays at least at 8x normal speed. This includes videos from mplayer, audio from Pandora (the Adobe Air application) plays at more than double speed (by time, not by sound, as it's completely silent). It seems that VLC plays the video at normal speed, but there is no audio. There are a couple of entries in messages that may be related: Oct 21 17:14:18 sage kernel: Linux version 2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64 (mockbuild(a)x86-03.phx2.fedoraproject.org) (gcc version 4.4.4 20100630 (Red Hat 4.4.4-10) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Wed Sep 15 03:36:55 UTC 2010 Oct 21 17:14:18 sage kernel: Command line: ro root=UUID=97c06a5b-698b-442f-8f4e-9b019182cef3 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarc yrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet Oct 21 17:18:26 sage pulseaudio[2326]: ratelimit.c: 6 events suppressed Oct 21 17:19:37 sage pulseaudio[2326]: ratelimit.c: 5 events suppressed Oct 21 17:15:02 sage rtkit-daemon[2180]: Sucessfully made thread 2568 of process 2568 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' high priority at nice level -11. Oct 21 17:15:02 sage pulseaudio[2568]: pid.c: Daemon already running. hda-intel: IRQ timing workaround is activated for card #1. Suggest a bigger bdl_pos_adj. I've tried killing pulseaudio, which results in a brief noise, then it is automatically restarted. I have the following updates in the last week: system-config-language-1.3.5-3.fc13 Thu 21 Oct 2010 11:13:04 AM EDT tigervnc-1.0.90-0.15.20100420svn4030.fc13 Thu 21 Oct 2010 11:12:53 AM EDT freetype-devel-2.3.11-6.fc13 Tue 19 Oct 2010 10:31:48 AM EDT fpaste-0.3.5-1.fc13 Tue 19 Oct 2010 10:31:47 AM EDT selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-65.fc13 Tue 19 Oct 2010 10:31:18 AM EDT selinux-policy-3.7.19-65.fc13 Tue 19 Oct 2010 10:31:00 AM EDT nc-1.84-23.fc13 Tue 19 Oct 2010 10:30:59 AM EDT anthy-9100h-15.fc13 Tue 19 Oct 2010 10:30:58 AM EDT postgresql-libs-8.4.5-1.fc13 Tue 19 Oct 2010 10:30:56 AM EDT psmisc-22.6-14.fc13 Tue 19 Oct 2010 10:30:55 AM EDT webkitgtk-1.2.5-1.fc13 Tue 19 Oct 2010 10:30:54 AM EDT gnome-screensaver-2.30.0-2.fc13 Tue 19 Oct 2010 10:30:52 AM EDT poppler-glib-0.12.4-6.fc13 Tue 19 Oct 2010 10:30:47 AM EDT poppler-utils-0.12.4-6.fc13 Tue 19 Oct 2010 10:30:46 AM EDT setroubleshoot-2.2.102-1.fc13 Tue 19 Oct 2010 10:30:45 AM EDT java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.0.0-43.1.8.2.fc13 Tue 19 Oct 2010 10:30:44 AM EDT I also have the following modules installed: Module Size Used by fuse 57233 2 ebtable_nat 1983 0 ebtables 22267 1 ebtable_nat ipt_MASQUERADE 2296 3 iptable_nat 4890 1 nf_nat 19999 2 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat nls_utf8 1405 3 cifs 236151 4 sunrpc 198573 1 cpufreq_ondemand 8764 6 powernow_k8 14721 1 freq_table 3955 2 cpufreq_ondemand,powernow_k8 bridge 64064 0 stp 1943 1 bridge llc 4733 2 bridge,stp xt_physdev 1699 1 nf_conntrack_netbios_ns 1558 0 ip6t_REJECT 4111 2 nf_conntrack_ipv6 17856 13 ip6table_filter 1671 1 ip6_tables 17580 1 ip6table_filter ipv6 275768 55 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6 kvm_amd 35638 0 kvm 260114 1 kvm_amd uinput 7455 0 snd_hda_codec_atihdmi 2727 1 snd_hda_codec_via 54561 1 edac_core 39175 0 edac_mce_amd 7855 0 snd_hda_intel 23960 2 sky2 44990 0 xhci_hcd 83615 0 k10temp 3343 0 wmi 6888 0 pata_atiixp 4117 0 i2c_piix4 11942 0 joydev 9771 0 snd_hda_codec 85624 3 snd_hda_codec_atihdmi,snd_hda_codec_via,snd_hda_intel snd_hwdep 6454 1 snd_hda_codec snd_seq 53005 0 snd_seq_device 6159 1 snd_seq snd_pcm 80324 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec snd_timer 19882 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd 62913 12 snd_hda_codec_via,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 6390 1 snd microcode 18282 0 serio_raw 4588 0 asus_atk0110 14532 0 snd_page_alloc 7437 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm pata_acpi 3419 0 firewire_ohci 20544 0 ata_generic 3427 0 firewire_core 44982 1 firewire_ohci crc_itu_t 1547 1 firewire_core pata_jmicron 2627 0 radeon 711597 2 ttm 54819 1 radeon drm_kms_helper 24738 1 radeon drm 176713 4 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper i2c_algo_bit 5045 1 radeon i2c_core 25709 5 i2c_piix4,radeon,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit Is there any further information I can provide to help troubleshoot this? Thanks, Alex

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Video drivers on a MacBook Pro 5,2
by Henrik Frisk 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

Hi, First of all I wish to thank all the people involved in the release of F13. I just upgraded from F11 and I really like it. The installation was effortless and the system works and looks great! But I have a question WRT the video ddriver. I have successfully installed the nvidia drivers but for some reason, the resolution (1920x1200) gives me a 'smaller' screen then what I have under F11 (also nvidia), i.e. I can fit less things. As if the resolution was lower. BTW, this was the case with the nouveau drivers too. The video card is a nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9600M GT] [10de:0647] Any ideas? /h

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Need advice on performance troubleshooting
by Marko Vojinovic 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

Hi folks! :-) I am experiencing a gradual performance drop problem --- having a machine running 24/7, after some time (say, two weeks) the system becomes increasingly slow, in terms of desktop response. It takes several seconds (cca 15-20) to open an "open file" dialog in a text editor, or a new terminal window or such. The window takes 2-4 seconds to gain focus after I click on it. If I move the mouse over a typical toolbar, it takes a second or two for the particular button to get highlighted, and the highlighting "rectangle" follows the mouse like 2-3 buttons behind. Clicking on a new message in KMail takes 1-3 seconds to actually display it. Most GUI stuff becomes increasingly (and annoyingly) slow. There is enough processor power, according to top and other diagnostic tools. Besides, compiz happens to remain completely responsive --- cube, this, that, all effects are fast and snappy. Mplayer runs flawlessly. But the rest of the GUI starts to drag. The text selection in an editor follows the mouse with 1-3 seconds delay. And such stuff... On a freshly (re)booted system everything is fast and snappy for a couple of days, and then it gradually starts to get slower and slower. This coincides with increased usage of swap, which tends to rise from 0 to 1.2 GB in two weeks period. I suspect that swapping is partially the culprit for performance degradation, but I am unable to determine what app is using all that swap, and for what. I would appreciate any pointers where to start looking for this swap drainage. Also, if I try to run the system without swap (disabling it manually right after boot), it starts to choke after some time, and I need to reboot it. The hardware has 2GB RAM, 4 GB swap, core 2 duo @ 1.5 GHz. I use the machine for usual desktop activities. Typically I have several apps running non-stop: firefox (3-4 tabs), kmail, ktorrent, kile, couple of konsole instances, two skype instances, cairo-dock, xmms and okular. The desktop is 64bit F12, KDE, running compiz/emerald. I have several usual plasmoids on the desktop, nothing too fancy (clock, graphs for cpu, temperature, battery, network and RAM usage). Occasionally I start other stuff (krusader, quake3, Wolfram's Mathematica, other infrequent things like photo editing stuff etc.) but I shut them down after usage. I notice the slowdown even if I don't use any of that. The symptoms appear like something is leaking memory --- slowly (noticable only after two weeks of continuous running), but cumulatively. This triggers gradual swap usage, which then gradually decreases performance and responsiveness of the whole desktop. I tried shutting down all desktop apps, and this releases some swap (but not all?!), but the system remains in a bad shape, which is visible if I (re)start any app again. Things like mplayer run flawlessly, but it takes cca 15-20 seconds to start the Konsole from which I can invoke mplayer. Once I left the system running unattended for a month (I wasn't at home), and I accessed it only via ssh a couple of times (without problems). When I got back, the desktop was so slow and unresponsive that I couldn't even wait for it to do a regular shutdown/restart, and instead I pulled the plug and rebooted it fresh. When I try to shut down a multi-tab app (firefox, kile, konsole), it takes so much time to close itself that I get a dialog saying that the app is not responding (and offering to terminate it). If I just wait, eventually both the dialog and the app close themselves. It can take them from 5 seconds to half a minute do close, depending on the shape of the rest of the desktop. I'm at a loss where and how to look for memory and performance drain. My current uptime is $ uptime 02:04:55 up 14 days, 4:54, 6 users, load average: 0.62, 0.55, 0.39 and I can feel the slowdown quite easily. I'd be happy to hear any advice on how to troubleshoot this, before I get pissed off and reboot the system again. I'll also gladly provide any additional info. Thanks, :-) Marko

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Looking for a few great contributors to help out with Fedora Elections!
by Robyn Bergeron 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

Are you a Fedora community member or even a free software user who’d like to get more involved but aren’t sure where to start? The Fedora Project is gearing up for our twice-annual elections process, for an election period in late November. During this election, we’ll be voting on positions in the following groups: * Fedora Board (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board) * Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) (http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FESCO) * Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo) (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAMSCo) Helping out with this elections process is a great opportunity to get started as a free software contributor, especially if you’re unable or prefer not to write code. We have a handful positions we need help with. We’ve outlined them below. If any of these sound like things you’d like to help us with, please send an email to the Fedora Board (advisory-board AT lists.fedoraproject.org) Fedora Election Questionnaire Coordinator The Fedora Election Questionnaire Coordinator will make sure members of the Fedora Community are able to ask questions of the candidates, and will facilitate sending the questions to the candidates and compiling them into a wiki page that will be distributing during the election period. Specifically, here’s what you’ll need to do as questionnaire coordinator: * Create a wiki page to list the candidate questions. * Use the following link to create the page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_elections_questionnaire * REFERENCE: The questionnaire from the last election is here – http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_elections_questionnaire You may want to look at it for ideas. * Send an message out to the Fedora community to collect questions for the candidates, allowing community members to email their questions to you directly or optionally adding them to a wiki page. The message should be sent to the following: ** Fedora Advisory Board Mailing List (advisory-board AT lists.fedoraproject.org) ** Community support for Fedora users Mailing List (users AT lists.fedoraproject.org) ** Fedora Announce List Mailing List (announce AT lists.fedoraproject.org) ** Development discussions related to Fedora Mailing List (devel AT lists.fedoraproject.org) ** Planet Fedora (http://planet.fedoraproject.org) – if your blog is not on Planet Fedora, contact Máirín Duffy (duffy AT fedoraproject.org) to post your message to the Planet for you. * On November 1, gather up all the questions that you collected from the Community, and post them all to the wiki page you created (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_elections_questionnaire) Make sure the page is neat & orderly. * On November 1, send the questionnaire page to all candidates and ask them to send their answers to you by November 8. * For any candidates you haven’t heard from on November 7th, send them a reminder email. * Copy the candidates’ answers into the wiki page and advertise the answers to the same venues listed above (the mailing lists and Planet Fedora. * Helpful Tips: ** Consider using your best judgement and selecting 6-8 good questions from the pool for the candidates. 20 questions is probably too much. If some are similar, feel free to merge and restate them. That’s it. Not too tough, to ask. right? Fedora Election Town Hall Coordinator The Fedora Election Town Hall Coordinator will schedule IRC town hall sessions, one for each of the following groups: * Fedora Board * Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) * Fedora Ambassadors’ Steering Committee (FAmSCo) Specifically, here’s what you’ll need to do as town hall coordinator: * Email all of the Fedora Board candidates between Nov. 1 and Nov. 3 and ask them to provide some 1-hour blocks of time they might be available to participate in an IRC town hall session, between November 13 and November 19th. You may wish to use a tool like whenasgood.net to organize this. Ask them to respond by Nov. 10. * Do the same as above for the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) candidates. * Do the same as above for the Fedora Ambassadors’ Steering Committee (FAmSCo) candidates. * Select who the Town Hall moderators were be (see below for that job description). * On November 10, determine the best date and time for each of the three town halls, and advertise this time & date and the irc channel (probably #fedora-meeting and #fedora-meeting-questions on irc.freenode.net) in the following venues: ** Fedora Advisory Board Mailing List (advisory-board AT lists.fedoraproject.org) ** Community support for Fedora users Mailing List (users AT lists.fedoraproject.org) ** Fedora Announce List Mailing List (announce AT lists.fedoraproject.org) ** Development discussions related to Fedora Mailing List (devel AT lists.fedoraproject.org) ** Planet Fedora (http://planet.fedoraproject.org) – if your blog is not on Planet Fedora, contact Máirín Duffy (duffy AT fedoraproject.org) to post your message to the Planet for you. * Helpful tips: ** When selecting people for town hall coordinators – remember that things like good IRC skills, even-temperedness, knowledge in the area of the town hall they are moderating, are very helpful. That’s it. Not too tough, right? Fedora Election Town Hall Moderator (3 needed!) The Fedora Election Town Hall Moderators will each run a 1-hour long IRC town hall sessions, one for each of the 3 groups being elected. This task requires some skill with IRC. This is an especially good position for someone who does not have a lot of time to devote as it only takes a little over an hour to do. The date and time of each of these sessions will be published by the Fedora Election Town Hall Coordinator on November 10. Specifically, here’s what you’ll need to do as town hall moderator: * Show up at least 5 minutes early to the town hall, make sure the IRC channel exists. * Start the meeting using the meeting bot command ‘#startmeeting’ * Learn the IRC nicks of the candidates for your town hall. You can look them up on Fedora Community (log in at http://admin.fedoraproject.org/community) or you can ask via email. * During the town hall, allow only candidates to have voice in #fedora-meeting. * During the town hall, take questions from Fedora Community members in #fedora-meeting-questions, and maintain a question queue. Ask the questions in order in #fedora-meeting, giving each candidate a chance to provide an answer to the question. * Once the session is over, end the meeting with the meeting bot command ‘#endmeeting’ * At the end of the meeting, the meeting bot will spit out a bunch of links to the minutes. Take these links and post them to the following venues as soon as possible: ** Fedora Advisory Board Mailing List (advisory-board AT lists.fedoraproject.org) ** Community support for Fedora users Mailing List (users AT lists.fedoraproject.org) ** Fedora Announce List Mailing List (announce AT lists.fedoraproject.org) ** Development discussions related to Fedora Mailing List (devel AT lists.fedoraproject.org) ** Planet Fedora (http://planet.fedoraproject.org) – if your blog is not on Planet Fedora, contact Máirín Duffy (duffy AT fedoraproject.org) to post your message to the Planet for you. * Helpful tips: ** Have great IRC and meetbot skills. This will help you out a lot! ** Don’t be afraid to poke people in the public channel for questions if things get slow. And bring a question or two of your own, just in case things get *really* slow! ** Keep an eye on the clock and the question queue. ** Town halls are held in #fedora-townhall and #fedora-townhall public That’s it! Like I said – if you’re interested in any of the above positions – please send a mail to the Fedora Board (advisory-board AT lists.fedoraproject.org) to let them know you are willing and available. Let election season begin! Don't forget to nominate yourself if you are interested (see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections for details), and don't forget to vote when voting time rolls around. Cheers, -Robyn

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DNS issue, solved
by Joe Zeff 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

Earlier, when I posted resolv.conf, I spotted what might be a problem: Network Manager was active, even though I'd turned it off long ago. Using the GUI tool, I turned it off again. This morning's updates included some kmod-nvidia stuff and later I found that one of my games (Plants vs Zombies, under Wine) wasn't loading, so I tried logging out and back in. Alas, X wouldn't start, forcing a reboot. (Only a little under 4 days of uptime, so no great loss.) Everything came up properly, I have DNS without playing games and Network Manager didn't activate. Now, the only question remaining is, what turned it back on in the first place, and that's not exactly urgent. Note: the first time I sent this out, I got back a bounce on a mail-loop. If anybody gets this twice, sorry.

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