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Sandisk USB stick with U3
by Mick M. 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

Hello; I had a friend come over with a USB stick. I had put Mint linux on his laptop, and now he could not write to the stick. I realized it was a Sandisk with their stupid U3.exe stuff on it. I went through this last year and used a Windows program to remove the U3 stuff and reformat it. Is there any way to do this in Linux? I remember I used fdisk to make it ext2, and formatted it. It still would not work. Mick M. Standard guarantee applies - 30 feet or 30 seconds, whichever comes first. # find / -name "*your base*" -exec chown us:us {} \;

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From when on is IPv6 address information available on an interface?
by fedora 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

Hi listers I have activated an IPv6 router in the local network. Every host has, as expectect, grabbed the prefix and constructed its own Link local, Site local (if requested), and Global addresses. Problem is: from when on is IPv6 adress information available for a certain interface? I have a laptop which I normally use via Ethernet (interface eth0). But at times, I use it via wlan0. As I have installed a test enironment for two Web applications on the laptop, I need to dynamically change the DNS for these applications, depending on which IP address (IPv4 as well as IPv6) the laptop is on. I had developped a script, which automatically changes DNS for the laptop, when I restart the network on the laptop (/etc/init.d/network restart). The IPv4 address for the laptop comes in via DHCP, IPv6 address comes in via neighbor and router solicitation. After DHCP and neigbor/router solicitation, the script to update the dynamic DNS asks for the actual IPv4 address, which is readily available at that point in time. Then it asks also for the IPv6 address, and gets the empty string. A snippet of the output of this DNS update script when used with wlan0 follows: ... Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ] Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ] Bringing up interface eth0: Determining IP information for eth0... failed; no link present. Check cable? [FAILED] Bringing up interface wlan0: Determining IP information for wlan0...++ ip -o -f inet6 addr show dev wlan0 scope site + ad= ++ echo ++ /usr/local/scripts/extract-field.pl '' 4 + ax= ++ echo ++ cut -d/ -f1 + ay= + echo server ns.mydomain.com update delete dick.dyn.lan A update delete dick.dyn.lan AAAA update add dick.dyn.lan 86400 A 192.168.97.20 update add dick.dyn.lan 86400 AAAA update delete bg.dyn.lan CNAME update add bg.dyn.lan 86400 CNAME dick.dyn.lan update delete auth.dyn.lan CNAME update add auth.dyn.lan 86400 CNAME dick.dyn.lan send Creating key... ... As you can see from the DNS update command list, the IPv4 address is present, whereas the IPv6 address is empty. The IPv6 address is asked for via the command ip -o -f inet6 addr show dev wlan0 scope site which returns an empty string. When, after this procedure, I recall the DNS update script manually, everything works fine including the IPv6 address. Has anybody had similar troubles when asking for IPv6 address data from an interface? Thanks in advance for any hint. suomi

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kmail notifications without text
by Dj YB 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

hello, I have posted this problem at the fedora-kde list but got no reply. when new mail arrives a kmail notification pops up, but they got no text inside them. other notifications seems to be ok. the problem began after updating to kde 4.4. any suggestion to find the cause\solution for the problem are welcome, thanks, YB.

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thunderbird spellchecker: disable EN regional variants?
by Colin Brace 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

Hi all, I have the correct-as-you-type option enabled in TB and regularly switch languages writing emails in Thunderbird. I find the large number of regional English variants listed under the language options a nuisance -- there are some 16 or 18 these days. I would really prefer a short list of just English US and English UK (along with NL). Is there anyway of disabling all the rest? I have Googled this, posted about in the Mozilla forum, to no avail. This does not appear to be a configuration option (Options/Advanced --> Config editor) nor an Addons option. Thanks for any ideas. ----- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/thunderbird-spellchecker%3A-disable-EN-regional-varia… Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Creative Labs Live! Cam Notebook Ultra Model vf0310 and FC11
by Tod Thomas 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

Should this work? If so is there documentation or a tutorial I can follow? Thanks - Tod

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texlive 2009
by François Patte 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

Bonjour, I would like to know if someone experienced to install texlive-2009 under fedora. I am running fedora 10. On some computer I installed fedora 12, but in any of these release texlive still remains with 2007 release. Is there a way to upgrade texlive under fedora 10 or 12. Thank you. BTW. Why texlive 2009 has not been included in f12? -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)1 4286 2145 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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Problem after update
by ka1ifq 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

I have been using FC12 to compile some programs, I do not use it on a regular basis. I decided to let it do an update as the list of packages to update seemed long and long overdue. I got it started and left for work, in the morning I came back to a black screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left corner, the machine was not hung as I could login on a text console. I tried an update from command line "yum update" , this produced errors and some type of 'fix' info, followed the directions but am back at the same problem, never actually does the updates and I still have a black screen with blinking cursor. What is the correct way to get this back working short of a reload (where I will loose all my program info)? Thanks, Mike. -- 2.6.27.45-0.1-default GNU/Linux

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Comments on the fastestmirror plugin
by Patrick O'Callaghan 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

The yum fastestmirror plugin (yum-plugin-fastestmirror) claims to evaluate the speed of a bunch of repo mirrors and use the fastest one relative to the user's location. However AFAIK what it *actually* does is make a test connection to the to the candidate mirrors and order them according to response time, which in many cases is dominated by network latency, which can distort the results. For well-connected user machines in first-world countries it probably doesn't matter much, and may have the beneficial effect of spreading the load over a wider range of mirrors, but for those of us in a less privileged position it can matter a lot. Ironically, these are the cases where such an optimization could do the most good. A case in point: I live in Venezuela and on several recent occasions yum decided that my closest repo was in Puerto Rico, which as the packet flies is probably true. However the b/w I got as a result was around 2 or 3kbps. I tried renewing the mirror cache. No difference (ping times tend not to vary much). I then manually edited the /var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt file to bias the results against the mirror yum was choosing (I made it worst rather than best). Oddly, it again made no difference! It seems there's a cunning hidden cache of these results that I don't know about. Finally I disabled the plugin completely and got decent b/w without it. Perhaps we should be considering some kind of BitTorrent version of the repos in which the mirrors are seeds and the users are leeches, though I realize that this is harder than it looks, particularly when taking into account the synching of the mirrors themselves. poc

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Re: Deafening silence
by Russell Miller 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

On Saturday 13 March 2010 02:21:35 pm Marcel Rieux wrote: > In thread starting with > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-March/367987.html > > I stated a skewer of bugs. Geeks answered it was normal to have bugs > like, for at least 2 years now, "New Files" entering the clipboard > every time a new file is created. It would also be normal to have no > option to be advised of files being sent to Trash in Nautilus before > they join the 1000 ones already there, because they don't want to be > bothered with unchecking an option. They have no problem with > clipboard managers never working perfectly well, soon as they have a > sleuth of them: glipper, klipper, clipman, whatever. And so on. > ... I have noticed the same thing. I no longer bother submitting bugs to Fedora. It is true that in some of the bugs I submitted I did not provide enough information. However, in the bugs that I did, they just languished completely until the software was EOLed, when the bugs was automatically closed. Unresolved. IE, still broken three releases later. I use Fedora. I even somewhat like Fedora. Apart from the fact that I'm taking my data into my hands with every release (from 11 to 12 I lost all my data on trying to upgrade), and the fact that things randomly break, bug reports do no good, and every now and then three releases later they'll randomly fix themselves, it's a pretty cool OS. But I don't bother contributing to it. I just install, and hope it all works out. --Russell

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UID mapping for NFS
by Bill Davidsen 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

I have a few systems on site which have common users installed with "wrong" UID values from the rest of the machines, and particularly those installed from a "live" CD which created one or more odd IDs when "install to disk" was used. I remember using "UID mapping tables" to cause an NFS access from "joe" on the client to use the UID of "joe" in the request sent to the NFS server. I can't recall if that was in Linux, or some other OS, I was supporting Xenix, AIX, Solaris, SunOS, and HP-UX at the time. Oh, and Dell's brief jump into SV5r4 on PC. If this is supported it would be miles easier than shuffling the UIDs on the clients, obviously. I though there was a mount option but I don't see it, and it's been a good decade since I did this and I can't remember details. I thought I was remembering the map_static option, but it is not recognized in exports, not are map_daemon or no_map_identity. (see: http://ftp.sunet.se/LDP/LDP/nag2/x-087-2-nfs.exports.html) What do I miss, the doc says it's there, the software disagrees. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot

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