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wlan0 Problems
by mike 26 Nov '11

26 Nov '11

My wife's HP Pavilion is driving me crazy. It is a built in Wireless setup (Centrino built-in chip). Every time I try to activate it in fc14.X86_64 I get the "Unable to Activate due to RF-kill" message! Yum info rfkill returns that rfkill is not installed. I am lost, do I need to install rfkill and then issue an unblock command? I have tried everything else but do not want to install something I do not need. Mike D.

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ext4lazyinit?
by Tom Horsley 25 Nov '11

25 Nov '11

I just reformatted a new 1TB USB 3.0 backup drive to ext4, mounted it, and I'm watching constant disk writes on my gkrellm display. I assume this is due to the ext4lazyinit process which showed up when I mounted the drive the first time. Anyone know how long it is likely to be initializing the tables? It has been running for about 20 minutes already.

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saslauthd, PAM & EXIM - F16
by Jeffrey Ross 25 Nov '11

25 Nov '11

I just upgraded my system to F16 and SMTP authentication is no longer working. What I have been able to figure out so far is EXIM is passing the authentication request to saslauthd but saslauthd appears to simply sit on the request, running a strace -f -p xxxx on the saslauthd process I can see my username and password sitting there but that's it, its just sitting there. output from strace: fcntl(6, F_SETLKW, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=1}{sa_family=AF_FILE, NULL}, [2]) = 7 fcntl(6, F_SETLKW, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=1}) = 0 ) = 0 accept(5, read(7, "\0\4", 2) = 2 read(7, "username", 4) = 4 read(7, "\0\6", 2) = 2 read(7, "passwd", 6) = 6 read(7, "\0\4", 2) = 2 read(7, "smtp", 4) = 4 read(7, "\0\0", 2) = 2 read(7, I think this means that exim is passing the query to saslauthd correctly but saslauthd for whatever reason isn't contacting PAM properly. sysconfig/saslauthd: SOCKETDIR=/var/run/saslauthd MECH=pam FLAGS= /etc/pam.d/exim: #%PAM-1.0 auth include password-auth account include password-auth selinux is disabled I know I'm missing something pretty simple but not sure where to look, suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, Jeff

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Gimp partially froze-up, in F-14.. and, The OS needs be made more efficient...
by Linda McLeod 25 Nov '11

25 Nov '11

Gimp partially froze-up, in F-14, on largest solid brush, then brush wouldn't cover the line made by the brush's perimeter, as if that area was now locked, but the brush would cover anywhere else on the pix, and as it did painting it ran a solid horizontal blanking line across the screen from left to right, but only in the area of colour I needed painted.. like it was a new primary feature, "brush combined with clone abilities"..? Has anyone had this happen in F-14, F-15, or F-16..? Is this a Gimp fault, or a Fedora fault.. or is Gimp evolving itself..? It seems to be a glitch that maybe opened-up the possibility of a new feature..? Maybe features can be married so many things happen on one click or stroke..? I do pix edits as a pastime hobby.. After editing, I must click to resize, resize, click "ok", click save, click "yes I want to save it".. five operations that two could do.. It makes the computer inefficient, when the "computer" is supposedly the epitome of evolution and efficiency.. Seems "laziness", and "slowness", and thankless motivation, and general misdirection, is all depleting the efficiency progress of the evolution of the computer.. is one of the computer's era's "diseases".. (for those whom that statement went way over your head.. please don't be "pissing in my face" just because you can't handle thought in those areas.. It's obviously not for you!.. If thinking makes your head hurt or, then Pulease! just don't read my posts)... Would be nice if I could resize the pix, then click "save", all done in two clicks.. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Send your email first class

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Printer problem Samsung CLX-3170
by Mickey 25 Nov '11

25 Nov '11

Fedora 16 Printer has been working fine in Fedora 14, 15. F16 doesn't like it. I'am not getting any Selinux errors. Printer state: Idle - /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsungsplc failed /var/log/messages Nov 21 16:51:48 BigOne kernel: [ 1582.570767] rastertosamsung[13644] general protection ip:4383b700 sp:bf8e4d78 error:0 in libc-2.14.90.so[43701000+1a5000] Nov 21 16:51:48 BigOne abrtd: Directory 'ccpp-2011-11-21-16:51:48-13644' creation detected Nov 21 16:51:48 BigOne abrt[13649]: saved core dump of pid 13644 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsungsplc) to /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2011-11-21-16:51:48-13644 (1626112 bytes) Nov 21 16:51:48 BigOne abrtd: Executable '/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsungsplc' doesn't belong to any package Nov 21 16:51:48 BigOne abrtd: Corrupted or bad dump /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2011-11-21-16:51:48-13644 (res:2), deleting

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Quasi-freezes in F16
by Beartooth 25 Nov '11

25 Nov '11

At odd intervals (measured in quarter-hours, I think), F16 with either Gnome or xfce will act up as follows. The cursor remains visible, and moves according to the mouse; and the eyes in panels follow it. But clicking, anywhere, right or left, does nothing. Sometimes, if the focus is at the prompt on a terminal, that will take input. Sometimes Ctrl-Alt-Bksp will bring a fresh login screen; sometimes not. Sometimes Ctrl-Alt-Del will reboot; sometimes not, and only the reset button (if any) has an effect. Incidentally, the machine I still have F16 on gets an error message on boot saying it has to use backup mode, or whatever it's called, and can't do full Gnome 3. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.

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Occasional panel freeze under Fedora-16
by Timothy Murphy 25 Nov '11

25 Nov '11

I wonder if anyone else has suffered from this? I'm running Fedora-16/KDE on my laptop. Occasionally - two or three times a day - I cannot get any response from my panel, eg clicking on the f-icon has no effect. If I am currently on a desktop, this isn't affected; I can list directories, edit a file, etc. I've used "top" to see what is going on, but I didn't see anything unusual there. The situation rights itself after about 30 seconds. I'm not sure if the problem is related to firefox. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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Text search in Libreoffiice (ctrl+f/edit search) fails in the current F16 version
by Joachim Backes 25 Nov '11

25 Nov '11

Hi, having a Libreoffice problem in F16 with searching text, using Ctrl+F or edit/search: no menu appears for entering the text to search. F15 has no such problems! My current LO version: 3.4.4.2-2.fc16.x86_64 Anybody has this effect too? Kind regards Joachim Backes <joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de> http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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F16: GDM user list, only show GDM logins
by Rich Boyce 25 Nov '11

25 Nov '11

Hello list, I'm rolling out F16 in a enterprise (well, academic) environment, and I need to get the GDM user list to only show users that have logged in via GDM. At the moment it also shows users that have logged in via SSH. I know that the new GDM uses systemd-logind to list its known users, but I haven't been able to find out how to configure either GDM or systemd-logind to list just GDM users (or just users assigned to a 'seat', as SSH users apparently are not). Is there a configuration option for this? I'm not keen to move to kdm. Thanks a lot, Rich

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can Thunderbird be configured to pick Fedora system mail?
by Claude Jones 25 Nov '11

25 Nov '11

Subject says it all. I have messages coming to my user logon but I can't figure out a way to get Thunderbird to retrieve them. I could do it with KMail, but that's broken for me at the moment. -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA

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