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various errors related to configuration
by Howard Howell 02 Jan '11

02 Jan '11

I started with an evolution configuration error, and now a Firefox/Mozilla configuration error, so it appears to me that this might be a system level error. Maybe some file or directory permissions issue, or perhaps a generic configuration error. I tried using the Firefox ProfileManager to create a new profile, but that lost me all my bookmarks, as well as not changing a problem getting my home page to load at startup, in spite of that being the selection on the preferences page, even after creating a new user profile with the profile manager. Java won't run, even after reloading from the software add/remove manager. Next I went to the Java website to get the new package, and retrieved the jre-6u23-linux-x64-rpm.bin file. when I attempted to source that file I get: $ ./j*bin Unpacking... Checksumming... Extracting... UnZipSFX 5.50 of 17 February 2002, by Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs(a)lists.wku.edu) replace jre-6u23-linux-amd64.rpm? [y]es, [n]o, [A]ll, [N]one, [r]ename: y inflating: jre-6u23-linux-amd64.rpm error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock (Permission denied) but the file appears to uncompress and be present as: jre-6u23-linux-x64-rpm but I am unsure of loading it with the prior error in existence. There may be other configuration issues as well, that I just haven't stumbled onto the situation where they will show up yet. Is anyone else having these kinds of problems? I haven't had this much difficulty since maybe my first Fedora installation. I know that this is all 64 bit, and that there may be some teething issues for me, but these kinds of errors, and the issues of moving all the configurations under a new umbrella with little background on why, where, premissions, access, and guidance doesn't give me much to go on. I know just enough to be dangerous, and apparently not enough to be able to find and fix the problems. Any further help would be appreciated. Regards, Les H

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Question/Problem creating a live USB
by JD 01 Jan '11

01 Jan '11

Using liveusbcreator to dump a linux (not of any distro) iso image onto a 256GiB flash drive (Made by Kensignton). After selecting the linux ISO image, and setting the value of the persistent storage, I click Create Live USB. I get this error message: Unknown filesystem. Your device may need to be reformatted. The usb flash drive has partition 1 as a fat32 filesystem. It was rejected by liveusbcreator with same error message as above. So, I formatted it as a Ext3 filesystem. Got the same error message. Next I tried /usr/bin/livecd-iso-to-disk cd100627.iso /dev/sdc Verifying image... /sdb4/Download/OfflineNTpassword/BootCD/cd100627.iso: Could not get pvd data Unable to read the disc checksum from the primary volume descriptor. This probably means the disc was created without adding the checksum.Are you SURE you want to continue? Press Enter to continue or ctrl-c to abort I press enter, and it exits without creating the bootable usb. So, I tried to use windows and follow the iso creator's instructions to transfer the iso to flash disk. My winxp-sp3 does not recognize the drive. And when I try to format the drive, windows says it was not able to format the drive. It is indeed strange that I can format it under Linux, and mount it and use it the ordinary way. But I cannot transfer the iso image to it. Any ideas what to do next? Thanx for your help.

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Outgoing email filters for claws-mail
by Suvayu Ali 01 Jan '11

01 Jan '11

Hi everyone, Can anyone point me to how to setup outgoing email filters with claws. I am using Claws with Gmail over IMAP and would like to put a copy of the sent email in the folder I am replying from. Without this my replies don't appear in the thread. Thanks for any help on this. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.

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Installing F14 on a HP M9517C behind Vista
by Mickey 01 Jan '11

01 Jan '11

I have a friend that lives in a different State and wants F14 Installed on a second Sata hard drive , behind Vista. Would it be better to use Vista's boot procedures or grubs at Boot startup. And if so, where would I find instructions on setting it up in Vista.

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NTLDR is missing error after fresh install of Win XP VM
by Mark LaPierre 01 Jan '11

01 Jan '11

Hey all, Fedora 13 clean install Gnome desktop [mlapier@mushroom ~]$ uname -a Linux mushroom.patch 2.6.34.7-66.fc13.i686.PAE #1 SMP Wed Dec 15 07:21:49 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux I just finished installing a Win XP VM using the Virtual Machine Manager GUI. After the initial installation step the VM wants to restart to complete the installation. I stopped the VM and set the boot order to CD then HD. That restart went well and the installation completed about 3:00 this morning. When I was setting up the VM I selected the Windows type and the Win XP subtype. I reset the boot order to HD then CD. When I tried to start the VM after the install was complete it complained that it couldn't find the CD ISO image because I had taken the CD out of the drive. That would make sense seeing that the installation was complete. I deleted the CD drive from the VM hardware. That solved the missing CD ISO problem but now there's the Booting from Hard Disk... NTLDR is missing Press and key to restart When I press "any key", that would be the really wide one at the bottom of the key board, the above message is repeated each time I press the "any key". I tried formatting the virtual disk with the NT file system and with the FAT file system. I get the same result so that's not the issue. I've installed VM's off this Win XP installation disk in the past on earlier Fedora versions and they would boot up so I know it's not the install disk. I've tried everything I can think of or find on Google searches and I'm getting really tired of three hour Win XP install sessions. Does anyone have an idea what's wrong with this set up?

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NTLDR is missing error after fresh install of Win XP VM
by Mark LaPierre 01 Jan '11

01 Jan '11

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nm-connection-editor's "Available to all users" checkbox
by W. Michael Petullo 01 Jan '11

01 Jan '11

I can't figure out why nm-connection-editor's "Available to all users" checkbox is not working for me on Fedora 14. I have the following behavior in two use scenarios: 1. Wireless/Add: receive "Connection add failed: Insufficient privileges" error dialog when I click "Apply" with "Available to all users" checked. 2. Wireless/Edit: fails silently. That is, I click "Apply" and receive no error. But, when I again edit the connection, I see that the "Available to all users" is not checked. I would expect to be prompted for a root password when I click "Apply." I would also expect to see some type of error message in the second scenario. I am able to add or edit a system-wide configuration if I run "pkexec nm-connection-editor --display=:0.0" and provide my root password. My user account is stored in LDAP. I have tried adding myself to the desktop_admin_t and desktop_user_r groups (by editing the local /etc/group and confirming with the groups command), but this does not help. I am using Fedora 14 and have the following related packages installed: polkit-desktop-policy-0.98-4.fc14.noarch polkit-0.98-4.fc14.x86_64 polkit-gnome-0.97-4.fc15.x86_64 NetworkManager-glib-0.8.1-10.git20100831.fc14.x86_64 NetworkManager-gnome-0.8.1-10.git20100831.fc14.x86_64 NetworkManager-0.8.1-10.git20100831.fc14.x86_64 Has anyone else had a similar problem? -- Mike :wq

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Avahi and IPv6
by W. Michael Petullo 01 Jan '11

01 Jan '11

I am trying to get Avahi working in a Fedora 14 IPv6 environment. I've read what I can find about the subject, but am still having trouble. I have written "use-ipv6=yes" to "avahi-daemon.conf," but when I run "avahi-browse," I do not see any IPv6 services listed (only IPv4). For an additional test, I turned off "use-ipv4." In this case, "avahi-browse" listed no services. I would expect to see at least the "_workstation._tcp" service listed as available on IPv6. Finally, I enabled ipv6, disabled ipv4 and ran "avahi-publish -s test _test._tcp 80." This command responded with "Established under name 'test'," but avahi-browse did not display the service. The Avahi daemon does seem to pick up my IPv6 interface, as the following debug output shows: $ sudo avahi-daemon --debug Process 8620 died: No such process; trying to remove PID file. (/var/run/avahi-daemon//pid) Found user 'avahi' (UID 498) and group 'avahi' (GID 493). Successfully dropped root privileges. avahi-daemon 0.6.27 starting up. Successfully called chroot(). Successfully dropped remaining capabilities. Loading service file /services/ssh.service. Loading service file /services/udisks.service. Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth1.IPv6 with address fe80::225:ff:fe3f:e37e. New relevant interface eth1.IPv6 for mDNS. Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth1.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.2. New relevant interface eth1.IPv4 for mDNS. Network interface enumeration completed. Registering new address record for fe80::225:ff:fe3f:e37e on eth1.*. Registering new address record for 192.168.1.2 on eth1.IPv4. Registering HINFO record with values 'X86_64'/'LINUX'. Server startup complete. Host name is imp.local. Local service cookie is 3709212864. Service "imp" (/services/udisks.service) successfully established. Service "imp" (/services/ssh.service) successfully established. I have tried turning off my host firewall and have disabled SELinux in order to test. Does anyone know why "avahi-browse" is not displaying IPv6 services? -- Mike :wq

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Emma frontend ???, for MySQL
by Mickey 01 Jan '11

01 Jan '11

Fedora 14. emma-0.6.tar.gz Trying to compile emma frontend for MySQL but I get Error below and I don't see a python2.4 in Fedora # ./setup.py /usr/bin/env: python2.4: No such file or directory # cat setup.py #!/usr/bin/env python2.4 import os import os.path import sys from glob import glob from distutils.core import setup from emmalib import version icon_data = glob('icons/*.png') glade_data = ['emmalib/emma.glade', 'emmalib/plugins/table_editor/table_editor.glade'] theme_data = ["theme/README.html"] theme_gtk_data = glob("theme/gtk-2.0/*") other_data = ['changelog'] setup(name="emma", version=version, description="emma is the extendable mysql managing assistant", author="Florian Schmidt", author_email="flo(a)fastflo.de", url="http://emma.sourceforge.net", scripts=['emma'], package_dir={'emmalib': 'emmalib'}, packages=[ 'emmalib', 'emmalib.plugins.table_editor', 'emmalib.plugins.pretty_format' ], data_files=[ ("share/emma/icons", icon_data), ("share/emma/glade", glade_data), ("share/emma/theme", theme_data), ("share/emma/theme/gtk-2.0", theme_gtk_data), ("share/emma", other_data), ], license="GPL", long_description=""" Emma is a graphical toolkit for MySQL database developers and administrators It provides dialogs to create or modify mysql databases, tables and associated indexes. it has a built-in syntax highlighting sql editor with table- and fieldname tab-completion and automatic sql statement formatting. the results of an executed query are displayed in a resultset where the record- data can be edited by the user, if the sql statemant allows for it. the sql editor and resultset-view are grouped in tabs. results can be exported to csv files. multiple simultanios opend mysql connections are possible. Emma is the successor of yamysqlfront. """ ) Also , #python setup.py no gtk. you will not be able to start emma # rpm -qa | grep gtk authconfig-gtk-6.1.11-1.fc14.i686 libcanberra-gtk2-0.25-4.fc14.i686 gtkmm24-2.22.0-1.fc14.i686 usermode-gtk-1.106.1-1.fc14.1.i686 gtk2-2.22.0-1.fc14.1.i686 qtcurve-gtk2-1.8.1-1.fc14.i686 gtk2-engines-2.20.1-2.fc14.i686 gtk+-1.2.10-70.fc13.i686 kcm-gtk-0.5.3-5.fc14.i686 pygtk2-2.17.0-7.fc14.i686 gtkglext-libs-1.2.0-10.fc12.i686 pygtk2-libglade-2.17.0-7.fc14.i686 gtkimageview-1.6.4-2.fc14.i686 gtkhtml2-2.11.1-8.fc14.i686 webkitgtk-1.3.6-1.fc14.i686 gtkhtml3-3.32.1-1.fc14.i686 gnome-python2-gtkhtml2-2.25.3-26.fc14.1.i686 python-slip-gtk-0.2.13-1.fc14.noarch report-gtk-0.20-1.fc14.i686

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All video editors are muting the audio?
by Zoltan Hoppar 01 Jan '11

01 Jan '11

I have tried to cut my videos to pieces, and stream back them together to have the best moments that I have recorded - but it seems that I couldn't.... The newest pitivi at last works, not crashing, but I couldn't control the audio part of the clips - however would be fine for this case, but rendering the project doesn't saves ANY audio.... Ok, have installed Avidemux, where I have more control. Same result, and more because crashes, freezing as should.... I have tried bunch of softwares - but right now, I sitting here on pile of recorded home movies - and couldn't do anything.... I don't want to give up, but if somebody says that I have to debug, or test or ANYTHING to achive better multimedia support - I'M HERE.... :( -- PGP: 06853DF7

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