users February 2011

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installation Joomla
by Rafnews 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Hi, i'm facing an interesting issue. The whole day i read psots about joomla installation issue with file configuration.php which is not writtable and another issue with directory permissions. However, everything i tried was unsuccessful and therefore i've decided to write a message in this list to see if someone could help me. basically when you install joomla on F14, installation checks if configuration.php file iswrittable. in my case, under F14, it is not writtable even i set chmod 777. i also tried to change group of owner or owner from root to apache but once again without success (chgrp, chown). i also trie to setup such things for the whole joomla package of files (site) but once again => unsuccessful. do you have an idea what could it be ? thank a lot, -- Alain ----------------------------------------------------------- Windows 7 x64 / Fedora 14 x64 PostgreSQL 8.3.5 / MySQL 5 Apache 2.2.16 PHP 5.3.1

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F14: sync iPod Touch w/ Evolution
by Craig Goodyear 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

I have an iPod Touch running iOS 4.2.1. I would like to be able to sync the iPod directly with the calendar and address book in Evolution. Is this possible? If so, what are the requirements? Craig

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slightly wonky 2nd display settings in F14
by Dave Stevens 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Hi, I've been meaning for some time to add a second monitor to my F14 setup. I did so today and found the monitor detected and the display size correctly set as soon as it powered on. Very nice. The second screen is physically to the right of the original and is so configured in the system settings. But the panels migrated to the second screen. I assume this is because the new screen is somehow misconfigured as my primary monitor. I can't see where to change this, can someone direct me? Gnome desktop. Dave -- When a respected information source covers something where you have on-the- ground experience, the result is often to make you wonder how much fecal matter you've swallowed in areas outside your own expertise. -- Rusty Russell

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yum error creating exported file system for diskless client
by Fred Brier 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

I was following the directions in Chapter 18. Setting Up A Remote Diskless System <https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Storage_Administration_…> and got to 18.3 <https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Storage_Administration_…> where it said Fedora could be installed to a directory that would be exported. I had previously created a 2GB ext4 LVM volume and mounted it at /diskless/myhostname and then attempted to execute the yum command: [root@myserver yum.repos.d]# yum groupinstall Base --installroot=/diskless/myhostname Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit fedora/metalink | 18 kB 00:00 Could not parse metalink https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=x86… error was No repomd file Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again [root@myserver yum.repos.d]# yum update works fine. I tried doing a "yum clean all". Did not fix it. What step am I missing? Thank you.

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sudo a graphical app? still not working
by kellyremo 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Fedora 14: i cleared all the firewall rules, then: visudo: Defaults env_keep += "DISPLAY XAUTHORITY" MYTRUEUSER ALL=(transmission-user) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/transmission-gtk $ sudo -u transmission-user -- /usr/bin/transmission-gtk No protocol specified Cannot open display: $ if i ps | grep transmission, i can see it's running. how could i see the transmission's GUI? i tried: xhost +127.0.0.1 but it doesn't work, error message is the same.

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Run application with other user
by kellyremo 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

OS: Fedora 14 GUI: GNOME I need to run an application with another user then the "default" (normally used). Purpose: create a ".desktop" file on my desktop to run e.g.: Google Chrome with another user (NOT ROOT! - so beesu doesn't count.) There aren't any gksu, or kdesu packages in Fedora 14. Why? So i want to create a user with "adduser SOMEONE", and i want to run e.g.: Google Chrome with "SOMEONE" - then it will have minimum permissions, "more security". Thank you!

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Strange Copy/Paste behavior in KMail 1.13.5/Kontact 4.4.8
by Steven P. Ulrick 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Hello Everyone, I am using KMail 1.13.5 from within Kontact 4.4.8. Also, I am running Fedora 13 and KDE 4.5.4. All of this is fully updated. I don't know when this problem started, but when I copy something like this from any email in KMail: No. Why do you need the "full-install" DVD? and paste it into any text editor, it comes out like this: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1- strict.dtd"> <body>No.  Why do you need the "full-install" DVD?</body> If I want to copy and paste a tracking number for an item that I purchased online, it looks like this when I paste it: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1- strict.dtd"> <body>9101128882300487354725</body> In the above example, this is the procedure I followed: 1. Using my mouse, I select "9101128882300487354725" in the desired email. 2. Right click the mouse, and then select "Copy" 3. Then, I either do "Ctrl V" or "Right Click | Paste" 4. The result is always the same. I get the text that I selected, plus a whole lot HTML markup... I have KMail set to compose and send emails in text only. In my experiments so far, this only occurs when I copy FROM KMail. If I copy from any other application, and paste INTO KMail, it pastes correctly. Also, when I select and then copy "9101128882300487354725" FROM KMAIL, and then check my clipboard, it shows up in the undesired format: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1- strict.dtd"> <body>9101128882300487354725</body> As far as I know, I didn't change anything to cause this problem to occur. I do know that up until a few weeks ago, on this same system, if (from within KMail) I selected and copied something like "9101128882300487354725" and then pasted the result into any application, I would get this: "9101128882300487354725" That is how it has always worked for me, and that is NOT how it's working for me now :( Your help is greatly appreciated. Steven P. Ulrick

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Hardware for Gnome3
by mike cloaked 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

With the advent of Gnome3 not far around the corner and with a huge array of different desktop and laptop machines with many different chipsets and graphics cards in use by the community, I wondered if there is a list of likely supported hardware that will have a reasonable chance of being able to successfully run Gnome3 when Fedora 15 is released? I know that we have the Gnome 3 alpha test days running (as of yesterday) but presumably those running the tests have hardware that is already expected to work with the new desktop experience with 3d support. It would nice nice if a user could run a quick probe of their current hardware and then go to a list of kit that is expected would be likely to run, or definitely won't run, Gnome 3. Is there such a list? Of course one can run commands to see if 3d support is in principle available on your own machine - but in the past having this information has not been a guarantee of getting a working 3d machine for eg desktop effects, even though 3d is "nominally" available. Clearly nouveau has been under heavy development in the past year or two, and ATI support has been accelerating too..... at what point does the experimental mesa stuff become stable enough to use for prime time? Would be nice to know. In the meantime it will be very valuable to see as many tests as possible being executed on as wide a set of different types of hardware as possible for the gnome 3 test days to maximise the chance that the largest number or users will be able to see a working desktop as soon as F15 is installed after release. -- mike c

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Re: KRandRtray ??
by DB 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

On 02/07/2011 04:42 PM, users-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: > Subject: > Re: KRandRtray ?? > From: > Rex Dieter <rdieter(a)math.unl.edu> > Date: > Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:17:33 -0600 > > To: > users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > > > DB wrote: > >> > I have the feeling what you are writing is not true (or maybe I've got >> > something set wrong on my box.....) > it*is* true:) , but not free of bugs. Sounds like you've found one, if > you could be so kind as to file one @ bugs.kde.org ? > > -- Rex > > Thanks for the reply! Bug is filed: Bug 265710 - KRandRtray loses changes at next start Dave

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Is there a better Alternative to Thunderbird ?
by Mickey 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Fedora 14 / KDE Today my Thunderbird-3.1.7 crashed and sent all my 1500 emails to the Trash Can. Thunderbird was taking so long to compact and other things it had to do and locking up my desktop and Web Browser. In Fedora is there a better email Browser ? I tried Evolution but it just does not seem to work very good in Fedora 14.

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