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Re: Root with GUI
by Hugh Caley 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

I don't know about your desktop, but Gnome in Fedora 12 is not 100% stable for me. Imagine if some of those utilities were running as root ... <<shudder>> (To be fair, I love Gnome and am glad to be using it ... still, it's a big and difficult software suite; MUCH better if work as root is done using the more tested and stable non-GUI userland stuff). IMHO. Hugh > Message: 17 > Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:41:51 -0400 > From: Tom Horsley<horsley1953(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: Root with GUI > To:users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Message-ID:<20100415124151.04ec7c7b(a)tomh.ccur.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:42:46 +0800 > Ed Greshko wrote: > > >> > At some point, they'd logout and later, next >> > day...after lunch, login as themselves and now have all sorts of >> > troubles they didn't have before. >> > "It is possible for idiots to screw up", is not the same as > an actual case history of some exploit hitting someone > only because they were running a GUI app as root. I'm still > waiting for the pointer to those case histories:-). > -- Hugh Caley, Linux Administrator Aldon Computer Group 6001 Shellmound St. Suite 600 Emeryville, CA 94608 (510) 285-8542 | hughc(a)aldon.com

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Scanning broken in Fedora ?
by Valent Turkovic 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556218 Is scanning working for you? Looks like it's broken. Any news of a fix anytime soon? -- pratite me na twitteru - www.twitter.com/valentt blog: http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com linux, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless, ronjenje, pametne kuće, zwave registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic, MSN: valent.turkovic(a)hotmail.com

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Disk monitor program
by Chris Kottaridis 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

On my Fedora core 8 there is a system monitor tool and the resources tab graphically shows CPU, memory and network usage. I'd like to get a similar graph for disk I/O. Can the system monitor tool show disk I/O as well, haven't found an option for it yet, or is there another tool that will display disk I/O in a similar manner ? Thanks Chris Kottaridis

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Open Office 3.2
by Henry Wyatt 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

attempt to install from desktop, ask me to become root for best install. how do I become root on desktop

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Re: vlc streaming tantalizingly close - thanks - that worked.
by Joe Feely 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

Thanks Stefan - that worked - it was simple, even obvious - and I missed it!! (well done me!!!!) > From: stefan riemens <fgfs.stefan(a)gmail.com> > Have you opened your firewall? You can use the system-config-firewall utility for that. > > Joe Feely <joe.feely(a)googlemail.com>: >> > I suspect I'm missing something obvious / simple. >> > Streaming with vlc (music mp3 files) with:- >> > [joe@F12onOfficeDT rips]$ vlc --sout udp://192.168.0.3:1234 * >> > >> > while on the other desktop the usb wireless stick flashes away seemingly >> > happily. >> > Run gui vlc - in open Network dialog box - enter Protocol UDP , Address >> > 192.168.0.3 , and port 1234 >> > Hit play and not much. No error messages; no indications of activity in >> > status boxes; no sound. >> > >> > I'm afraid I'm not smart enough to know if the "problem" is vlc or some >> > other setting(s). >> > >> > BTW vlc works fine with local stuff and online radio. >> > >> > (I'm running F12 on streaming box and F11 on receiving box) >> > >> > Any ideas? -- Joe Feely

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LVM problem
by Luc MAIGNAN 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

Hi, I want to add a new disk (/dev/sdb1) to an existing VG. Here what I've done : * pvcreate /dev/sdb1 * vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/sdb1 * lvresize -l +20901 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 (LogVol00 is mounted on /) Then, when I make a 'lvdisplay' I saw the correct size of the volume (sum of the old size plus the size of the new disk) But a 'df -kh' always gives me the old size... What's wrong ??? Thanks for any help Regards

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God, "No Volume Groups Found" !!!!
by 依和 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

Dear all, I'm using FC8 and I download the kernel source 2.6.33.2 from kernel.org and build it by myself but, everytime I try to boot from the new kernel I met the error "No Volume Groups Found". I tried everything I could but failed still. Would you please give me any idea? Thanks in advance. morrisX -- "In everything beautiful, there are something strange"

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Graphics Test Week this week
by Gianluca Sforna 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

The Fedora project announces that this week is Graphics Test Week. This is the highlight of the Fedora 13 Test Day cycle, with Test Days for NVIDIA, ATI/AMD and Intel graphics all falling this week. Tuesday April 13th is NVIDIA Test Day [1], Wednesday April 14th is ATI/AMD Test Day [2], and Thursday April 15th is Intel graphics Test Day [3]. Although these are Fedora events, the results will ultimately benefit almost all distributions: Fedora tends to use the latest versions of graphics-related components and sends all its changes upstream, so the fixes that result from these events will end up in all major distributions. Even if you're not a Fedora user, you can help Linux as a whole by contributing your test results. The testing can be done using a live image, so there's no need to install Fedora onto your system to contribute to the testing: just download a live image, write it to a CD or USB stick, boot it, and run through the tests. Comprehensive test instructions are available on the Wiki pages, and you enter your results into a table on the Wiki page; there's no need to have a Fedora wiki account to do this. QA team members and developers will be available on the IRC channels throughout each event to help with testing and triage, and to work on some of the problems immediately. The more results we get and the more bugs we expose, the better it is for everyone, so if you have time, please check out the Wiki pages and join the IRC channel - #fedora-test-day on the Freenode network - to help out! You can use WebIRC [4] if you're not a regular IRC user - just click that link and you're in the chat. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-13_Nouveau [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-14_Radeon [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-15_Intel [4] http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=fedora-test-day -- Gianluca Sforna http://morefedora.blogspot.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/gianlucasforna

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HP DV4 2030BR
by thierry vandenbroucke 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

Hi guys, Has anyone succeded to use the HP Biometric ( digital persona ), and intel Graphic ( 4500 HDA ) on fedora 11 or 12? Will these be suported on F13? Thanks in advance.

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load and power management
by Peter Arremann 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

Hi, I'm a bit confused on how power management and cpu load (should) work together... I'm not talking about a busy cpu clocking higher and so on but about how system usage is reported when the cpu frequency changes. I run KDE and the CPU meter (systemloadviewer plasmoid) behaves very erratically. One moment I have 50% load, then the next it drops down to 26% only to go back up to 50% seconds later. When checking what is going on in the system I noticed nothing unusual. I have most services disabled for security reasons and run a pretty light desktop After a little digging I found that my system usage barely seems to change - just enough to frequently push the CPU one step up in clock frequency and then it drops back down almost immediately. As soon as I fixed the clock frequency at the highest (cat scaling_max_freq > scaling_min_freq) the cpu usage was reported as perfectly steady... So - that leads me to a few questions: Am I doing something wrong? My view is pretty simple but the few tests I did seemed to all indicate the same thing... How valuable is reporting the CPU usage if its not really shows how much of maximum CPU power is used? Wouldn't it make more sense to show CPU usage normalized to the maximum frequency rather than the current frequency? Does the load as display with uptime compensate for power management? I went through some of the kernel code the scheduler and the cpufreq kernel modules but didn't see anything. Thanks, Peter. -- Censorship: noun, circa 1591. a: Relief of the burden of independent thinking.

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