What is "nomodeset" SUPPOSED to do?
by Steven P. Ulrick
Hello Everyone,
What is "nomodeset" SUPPOSED to do? I really do want to know, because I wonder
if "nomodeset" is ineffectual on my system, and that's why I can't get the
rpmfusion nVidia driver to work (it used to work on this same system under
Fedora 12.)
I want to go with the nVidia driver because:
1. nouveau (in KDE) leaves me with a hideous multicolored (grey & black) taskbar
at the bottom of my display.
2. Whatever driver is defaulted to when nouveau won't run (vesa?) will boot
perfectly on my system, BUT it only displays at a maximum resolution of
1280x1024. 1920x1080 is the resolution I was running it at with this same
system, same monitor, same video card on Fedora 12.
So, I'd really like to know if my problem is because "nomodeset" is doing
nothing on my system...
Steven P. Ulrick
13 years, 11 months
Abrt doesn't capture traces for segfault type 6
by Mike Fedyk
Hi,
I looked for a component in bugzilla for abrt, and it isn't listed so
I'd like to know where I should file this bug report.
> May 27 13:42:16 dt01 kernel: epiphany[9989]: segfault at fffffffffffff7f0 ip 000000391f474b8c sp 00007fffdf2c4d90 error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[391f400000+16f000]
> May 27 13:42:18 dt01 abrt[9990]: saved core dump of pid 9989 (/usr/bin/epiphany) to /var/cache/abrt/ccpp-1274992936-9989.new/coredump (54530048 bytes)
Notice the "error 4" part and that abrt captures a backtrace for it.
> May 28 01:08:43 dt01 kernel: tecnoballz[12747]: segfault at 10132ddf0 ip 000000000042f5e0 sp 00007fffe99b21f0 error 6 in tecnoballz[400000+68000]
Notice the "error 6" part and that abrt does not capture a backtrace for it.
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0512.1/2406.html
The link above says that the error codes are processor dependent.
Maybe there is something generic that can determine whether to attempt
processing a backtrace.
Is this a kernel issue, abrt issue or both? Where should I file the bug report?
13 years, 11 months
f13 - gdm fails with no user list
by Genes MailLists
Fresh install f13 - fully updated.
As per usual on laptop - i ran
gconftool-2 --direct --config-source
xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --type bool --set
/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true
So that gdm does not present user list to the world.
Rebooted - gdm screen comes up - background is there - and lower bar
is there.
The box where I would put username / password is a thin vertical line
1 pixel wide ...it is impossible to login to gdm
reset to false and restart and its fine again.
known bug or is there a new way to configure gdm now ?
thanks.
gene/
13 years, 11 months
encrypted disk/partition
by Fred Smith
in F13, Anaconda seems to allow encrypted partitions ONLY if you use LVM.
If I set up the disk as simple partitions with no lvm/VG/raid, how can
I realize encrypted partitions or even whole disk?
Thanks!
--
---- Fred Smith -- fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us -----------------------------
I can do all things through Christ
who strengthens me.
------------------------------ Philippians 4:13 -------------------------------
13 years, 11 months
'userdel' irony -- what do you say ?
by sawrub
Hi List,
I created a user by the name test, and after doing with my testing was
going to delete the user using the following command, userdel and also
added '-f' for cleaning out the home without leaving any traces of
'test'. But the command says :
[root@xbox ~]# userdel -f test
userdel: user test is currently logged in
Then i noticed that a tab in terminal was open with the user logged in.
Closed the TAB and again tried to remove the user. And to irony the user
was already gone as now the command said :.
[root@xbox ~]# userdel -f test
userdel: user 'test' does not exist
Tried listing the files and all were there intact.
[root@xbox ~]# ll /home/test/
.bash_history .bash_profile .dbus/
firefox-3.6.4.tar.bz2 .gconfd/ .gnome2_private/
.pulse-cookie
.bash_logout .bashrc firefox/
.gconf/ .gnome2/ .mozilla/
[root@xbox ~]#
I'm totally lost that how is parameter working fully against what man
says about it, pert manual
-f, --force
This option forces the removal of the user account, even if
the user is still logged in. It also forces userdel to remove the user´s
home directory and mail spool, even if another user uses the same home
directory or if the mail spool is not owned by the specified user. If
USERGROUPS_ENAB is defined to yes in /etc/login.defs and if a group
exists with the same name as the deleted user, then this group will be
removed, even if it is still the primary group of another user.
Seems that there is some issue with the command parameter, what do you
say ? is there some issue or Am i wrong somewhere.
--
Saurabh Sharma
Linux user number: 490644
http://sawrub-blog.blogspot.com/
Open your doors.......It's time to look beyond Windows
13 years, 11 months
Regarding Get Fedora page
by Jud Craft
I'm sorry if I'm late to the party or this has been previously
explained, but I can't see anything related to it in Fedora-list,
-devel, -desktop, or -advisory. So here goes.
What happened to the Get Fedora page? It was beautiful. Now it's a
big ugly pile of links in a strange link-map that hides half the
options, and I can't find a mention of torrents anywhere. What
happened to the big master list of all image download links?
Spins.fedoraproject.org looks great, but the main download page has
greatly regressed compared to F12.
[I just found the Fedora bittorrent page by googling. Glad I found them.]
13 years, 11 months
F13 Workspace switxher failing
by Beartooth
Using the new preupgrade from F12, I'm getting very mixed results.
On one PC, it hit the space problem, told me to quit unless I had
a wired Net connection (I did), and let me continue. Then it coped, and
in very little time F13 was up and running, with all my old data still
present.
I'm on that machine now, and some things are inordinately slow,
but do still work, at least for the most part.
Then I did the same on a Thinkpad T42, and again saw immediate
triumph.
So I tried it on another (newer) PC, and another Thinkpad (a T30)
-- and have yet to get either of them usable.
I'll leave the T30 for a different post, if need be; this post is
for the second PC.
It has one problem all the time, and one most of the time; the
former is the worse. I can always log in, and it always gives me my
normal bottom panel. (My left panel sometimes appears, sometimes not; but
I can usually make that appear by starting to create a new one.)
The PC sees both the keyboard and the mouse -- when they are
behind a USB KVM switch, as well as when they are connected directly to
it. The launchers on the panels respond normally to mouse-over and to
clicking -- except for the workspace switcher.
The workspace switcher behaves normally when moused over and when
right-clicked. But it does nothing when left-clicked. (Nor do Alt plus
arrow key do anything.)
I keep trying blanket gpk updates; and also telling yum to
update it, and telling yum to remove it (intending of course to put it
back immediately). No joy there, either.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
13 years, 11 months
Does anyone know how to debug cups and or lpr
by Mark LaPierre
Hey All,
I'm trying to get my printer to work. I have a driver configurator and
System/Administration/Printing tools. Both find the printer and pass
all tests of the printer, device and backend, and send a file to the
print queue.
[mlapier@mushroom ~]$ lpq
ml1740 is ready and printing
Rank Owner Job File(s) Total Size
active root 11 Samsung Test Page 15360 bytes
[mlapier@mushroom ~]$ lpq
ml1740 is ready
no entries
[mlapier@mushroom ~]$
The file does not get printed but it does disappear from the print queue.
Now this whole operation worked just fine with the same hardware with
the previous version of Fedora but now it doesn't want to hear it after
upgrading to the next version of Fedora.
Does anyone know what steps I should take to debug my printing problem?
Do you need me to post more information?
Thanks
13 years, 11 months
Fedora 11 GDM - unwanted list of all local users and impossible to customize?
by jaivuk
Hello guys,
I did not use gdm for some time and now I'm not happy how it looks in Fedora
11.
First of all - the list of local users is unacceptable from security
reasons. Even if it supports such "an " option - how it can be the default
one?!
Second problem I have is shutdown button (and possibly restart as well) -
when you click on shutdown button by mistake, system will shut - there is no
confirmation dialog.
I also tried to find some ways how to customize gdm in Fedora 11 but I did
not find any usable guide.
Can anybody please advise me how can I have prompt asking for username only
(showing last logged user at maximum) and not displaying the list of all
local users?
Also can I somehow add confirmation or remove shutdown restart buttons from
gdm screen?
Or can you please advise any alternative to gdm?
Thank you very much,
Jan
13 years, 11 months
fedora 13 - upgarding from DVD with no /boot
by Genes MailLists
I have an existing install (f10) with a root partition and /home partition.
When I boot the install DVD - there is no screen which offers me a
choice whether i want to upgrade or do a fresh install - it -assumes- I
want to install fresh.
Is this a bug or is there an option I need to put in somewhere to
upgrade this system?
thanks for any pointers.
gene/
13 years, 11 months
