xterm font issue
by Mark LaPierre
Hey Y'all,
When I start an xterm I get:
[mlapier@mushroom ATC]$ xterm
Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct
xterm: cannot load font
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1
[mlapier@mushroom ATC]$ xterm -version
X.Org 6.8.99.903(261)
[mlapier@mushroom ATC]$ 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 tried yum install font-*
No joy.
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13 years, 2 months
FC14 shows white screen after login
by Jim Philips
I seemed to get past my network issues by setting up Network Manager. But
now, when I enter my username and password into GDM, it grinds for awhile
and then I'm presented with a white screen with only a mouse pointer. I can
move the pointer, but nothing else works. Since GDM doesn't give me any
option to go to the command line, there is absolutely nothing I can do. The
only thing different I did was that I installed and ran Gnome Shell. X
windows may be trying to run that again and failing. But with no output of
any kind, it's a little hard to troubleshoot.
Is there any key combination that will get me to the command line from GDM?
I'm running an HP DV7 laptop (if that helps at all).
13 years, 2 months
Typing lower case x in a terminal window opens a new terminal window
by Chris Jones
I am running Fedora 14, and now when I open a terminal window and type
any command, as soon as I type a lower-case x character, a new terminal
window opens and control is passed to it.
How do I change this annoying behaviour to what I would expect? If I put
the Caps Lock on and then type Shift-x, I do get the lower-case x
without the new terminal window being opened.
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Chris Jones
13 years, 2 months
opened OpenSSL port
by erikmccaskey64
Main question: is it safe, to open a port for an openssl server?
e.g.:
server side - generate a self-signed cert.
time openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:8192 -keyout mycert.pem -out mycert.pem
openssl s_server -accept 52310 -cert mycert.pem
Is it secure? - it could be DOSed' [DenialofService] or could it be attacked in any way?
Are there any iptables rule for restricting connections to dyndns names?
e.g.: only allow connection from "asdfasdf.dyndns.com" and "asdfasdf2.dyndns.com" and "asdfasdf3.dyndns.com"?
How could i restrict the openssl server to only accept traffic from given clients? Please help me "think"..
Or are there any "production ready" methods, that can do authentication too? [+using ssl].
"openssl s_server" and "openssl s_client" would be perfect, but the problem is it doesn't has username/password auth :\
Thank you for any help.
13 years, 2 months
Fedora does not see hard drives
by Alexander Wimbush
Hello, I'm trying to use Fedora to view two 500GB hard drives I have in my
computer after windows stopped booting. I will admit that I did something
stupid, I used the Marvell RAID utility on my windows 7 system to create a
new adapter and added both drives to it in RAID 0. The system stopped
responding, then rebooted. After this it would not restart.
It'd be nice to know whether I have lost all my data, as I have several
gigabytes of photography work, and lots of Physics coursework on there that
I have not backed up. If it's still there, I'd like to know how to get
fedora to see the drives so I can recover them and back them up somewhere
before trying to mess around with the system.
I boot up fedora from a USB stick and it loads. It doesn't seem to load
hardware drivers properly, as networking, the graphics card and all things
like that do not work. I have a laptop that I'm using to send this email. I
have tried removing the drives from raid and run a dmraid command to erase
configuration data from them as I read online but this did not help
I have no idea what could have gone wrong, I've played about with BIOS
settings but nothing makes a difference. I have some sort of SATA6 thing
going on with my computer so maybe that is causing the problem I heard. My
computer uses an Asus P55A-UD3 Motherboard if it helps at all. Thank you for
any help
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13 years, 2 months
cdparanoia for DVDs?
by Patrick O'Callaghan
I have a DVD+R Dual Layer disk recorded some time ago with a bunch of
media files and I want to extract them. The DVD is just an iso9660
filesystem, not a conventional commercial-format movie disk. Trouble is,
I'm getting I/O errors from 'cp' with some of the files. Since they are
media (AVI format) files these errors may be tolerable if there aren't
too many, but of course 'cp' doesn't know that.
cparanoia makes strenuous efforts to read flaky CDs, so I wondered if
there's something similar for DVDs.
If not, I guess I'll try "dd conv=noerror ...".
poc
13 years, 2 months
Wayland and F15 ?
by Philip Rhoades
People,
Is Wayland going to be available in Fedora 15 ?
Thanks,
Phil.
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13 years, 2 months
Shared encrypted filesystem
by Bill Davidsen
Any thoughts on remote mounting a filesystem securely? Clearly I could just
export it and count on the encryption in the WiFi and the VPN to protect the
data, but that leaves it mounted in clear on the server. I looked at putting the
data in a file mounted with cryptoloop on the client, which works, or creating a
loop device and then having that be a LUKS device. I haven't tried that last
one, but my notes say I did create a local loop/LUKS device for a demo, so I
suppose it could happen.
Is there some simple and common additional method I've missed?
The file is "shared" at various locations, but it would work if only one client
at a time could access it, writes are rare, even needing access is unusual, but
it does happen.
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the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
13 years, 2 months
Yum's database and configure, ..., make install
by Suresh Govindachar
Hello,
On Fedora-14:
1) if I install things by "configure; make ; make test; make
install", will yum automatically know how the system has
changed? If not, how does up update yum's database to
reflect the changes?
2) Similar question for perl modules (perl Makefile.PL; make;
make test; make install).
3) Similar question for "make uninstall"
Thanks,
--Suresh
13 years, 2 months
