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How to find which serial port is assigned to the attached device [fc13]
by Jatin K 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Dear All, I've attached a USB to serial converter on my laptop's USB port. question is how do I find which serial port is assigned to my device ( the converter ) ?? Thanks & Regards -- °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Jatin Khatri Registerd Linux user No #501175 www.counter.li.org No M$

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My backintime app is busted on Fedora 14.
by Dick Roark 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

I have been using backintime since Fedora 11. Since Fedora 14, it no longer works. I have been unable to get it working. Finally, I did a F14 reinstall which did not change the situation at all. Is there a known problem with backintime on F14? (I have two other machines running F13 which work fine with backintime.) Anyone else seen this? Thanks, Dick Roark

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Blog system
by Luc MAIGNAN 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Hi, I want to install a blog on a fedora server to display informations and let users put comments. What is the best package to do that ? BR

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3D Chess screen saver
by Aaron Gray 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

I am looking for an old screensaver that I believe was OpenGL on Fedora that was a chess board. Many thanks in advance, Aaron

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what is the “Online Certificate Status Protocol”
by erikmccaskey64 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

I use privoxy. In the user.action file i have a redirect rule and a few websites: { +redirect{s@http://@https://@} } .twitter.com .facebook.com Ok! it's working great, e.g.: if i visit any "*twitter.com" URL it gets redirected to HTTPS! But: with wireshark i can see some "OCSP" packets [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Certificate_Status_Protocol ] Question: What are these packets? Why aren't there in HTTPS? Is my redirection method with privoxy is secure? Thank you for any tips/opinions!

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Fedora 15 alpha desktop login issue after update
by Vamsi Krishna Brahmajosyula 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Hello, I have installed fedora 15 alpha x86_64 on my laptop. After an update ( new gnome-shell = 2.91.91), I did a reboot. I am unable to login with proper credentials through gdm(possible bug in gdm,as I saw gdm being updated as well). please look into it . Thanks Vamsi

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Installation Impressions
by Nikolaus Rath 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Hello, I'm a long term Debian and Ubuntu user and just tried to install Fedora 14. I want to share a couple of impressions: I don't have a CD writer at hand, so I downloaded the netinstall image. Following the instructions in the installation guide, I copied vmlinuz and initrd.img from the .iso and bootet into it using my existing grub2 setup. The first surprise came when the installer asked me where to install from. I downloaded the network image, so I thought it'd be obvious that I wanted to install from the network. Lacking any URL or NFS server address, I figured that maybe the installer is asking for the netinstall image itself? That'd be weird, but seemed the most reasonable explanation. Unfortunately, I am not able to use the downloaded disk image because at this point the installer doesn't have LVM support. Brr. Rebooted, copied the network image into NFS share, booted into the installer again. Now the installer reports that it can't mount the share. This is obviously wrong, because if I try to specify the filename of the netimage rather than just the directory, the installer complains that this isn't the right file. Grmbl. Reboot, read the documentation again. Ok, apparently I should be able to manually enter the URL of a Fedora mirror. So I grab I piece of paper and write down http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/linux/fedora/releases/14/Fedora/x86_86/os/ Reboot, back into the installer. I am wondering why the hell I have to enter this. The installer knows what I'm trying to install, and it should be able to figure out where the closest mirror is. Crash. I forgot that I downloaded the netboot image for i386. Why isn't the installer warning me that install.img that it downloaded doesn't work with the booted kernel? Reboot, typed the correct address. Now I'm in a graphical mode that knows LVM. I'm warned about the installer not being able to update my existing installation, but there is no existing Fedora installation. Well, whatever. Now the installer asks for the password of my LUKS encrypted swap partition. Unfortunately the password is chosen at random on every boot. It gives a really scary error message that it will not be able to use this storage device which doesn't seem appropriate to me. I chose manual partitioning. The installer asks me for the LUKS password again and gives a scary error again. Now I'm trying to use the swap partition for Fedora as well. I double click on it, and select "format as swap", "encrypted". Doesn't seem to have any effect, there is no indication that Fedora will actually use the device, and when I'm reopening the dialog then my settings are gone. Alright, so I'll do without swap for now. Next thing the installer complains that I cannot put my root partition into LVM2. This works just fine with Grub2, and isn't Fedora supposed to be cutting edge? Anyway, so I try to create a primary /boot partition instead. There is 128 MB of free space. I tell the installer to use all the space that's available. It claims that there is not enough space left. At this point I just got too annoyed. Am I just extremely unlucky or is a Fedora installation always that painful? Best, -Nikolaus -- »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« PGP fingerprint: 5B93 61F8 4EA2 E279 ABF6 02CF A9AD B7F8 AE4E 425C

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How to install openoffice?
by Mike Wright 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Hi all, Using f14.x64 I'm trying to install a basic openoffice package with calc and whatever reads .pps files. yum install openoffice.org* gives me this: Install 332 Package(s) Total download size: 874 M Installed size: 2.3 G Is this ok [y/N]: N Is this for real? I don't have much use for hundreds? of language packs (my Gurkali is a bit rusty). Does anybody know the magic yum incantation to install something reasonable? 332 packages just doesn't feel reasonable to me. TIA, Mike Wright

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RE: tty rows colums
by Alan Gagne 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

> I use gnome environment . > > The xterm has 80 columns and 24 rows > > While I enter Ctrl+Alt+F2 to use a whole scream for some edits. > This tty has 180 columns and 56 rows. > > How can I resize it to 80 columns and 24 rows. > > Early I use some skills in grub , it works . > Is there another way? Have you tried stty ? stty --help man stty $ stty cols 80 rows 24 Alan

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gnome program
by 嘉谟 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

I can use gcc -o xx xx `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0 ` Now I need to do some programs with gnome .Which need gnome.h I compiled like gcc gnome1.c -o gnome1 `pkg-config --cflags --libs libgnome-2.0 libgnomeui-2.0` Which shows: Package libgnome-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libgnome-2.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'libgnome-2.0' found Package libgnomeui-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libgnomeui-2.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'libgnomeui-2.0' found gnome1.c:1:19: fatal error: gnome.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. As i thought I use gnome why system not contain gnome.h It is easy for somebody . When i lose some file . How can i find the correct name to yum install or find source file .

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