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yum error
by Jeffrey Ross 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Running F14 and when I issue the command "sudo yum check-update" I will often but not always get the following in response: $sudo yum check-update Loaded plugins: downloadonly, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit Adding en_US to language list Could not get metalink https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f14&arch=x… error was 14: PYCURL ERROR 6 - "" Any thoughts? I quick search showed the same error with the debug repo but this is obviously not the debug repository. Thanks, Jeff

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problem with nfs ls latency during high IO
by Judith Flo Gaya 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Hello, I hope this is the list to write to, if it's not, please let me know. Here is the problem: I was told some days ago that my problem with my NFS system is related to this bug, as the problem that I'm experiencing is quite similar. The bug : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469848 The link itself explains quite well my issue, I'm just trying to copy a big file (36Gb) to my nfs server and when I try to get an ls -l command to the same folder where I'm copying data (within the same machine), the command gets stuck for some time. This amount of time changes from a few secs to SOME minutes (9' is the current record). I can live with some seconds of delay, but minutes is something quite unacceptable. As this is an nfs server running on a red hat system (an HP ibrix x9300 with Red Hat 5.3 x86_64, kernel 2.6.18-128) I was told to apply the patch suggested from the bug on my clients. Unfortunately my clients are running fedora core 14 (x86_64, kernel 2.6.35.6-45) and I can't find the file that they are referring to, the file fs/nfs/inode.c is not there and I can't find the rpm that contains it. As the bug is a very very old one, I took it for granted that is already applied to fedora, but I wanted to make sure that it is by looking at the file. Can you help me on this? am I wrong in my supposition (is the patch really applied)? is it possible that my problem is somewhere else? Thanks a lot in advance for your help, please let me know if I can provide any more information. j -- Judith Flo Gaya Systems Administrator IMPPC e-mail: jflo(a)imppc.org Tel (+34) 93 554-3079 Fax (+34) 93 465-1472 Institut de Medicina Predictiva i Personalitzada del Càncer Crta Can Ruti, Camí de les Escoles s/n 08916 Badalona, Barcelona, Spain http://www.imppc.org

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Fedora 14 Kmess 2.0.6 RPM Packages (i686 & x86_64) :P
by Manuel Escudero 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

I bring to you 32 & 64 bits RPM packages for Kmess 2.0.6.1-0 to install on your F14 Systems!!! I've just finished building and testing them, you can download the packages from here: 32 Bits Systems: http://goo.gl/Us6pt 64 Bits Systems: http://goo.gl/eNrgh P.S. I also have the "debuginfo" packages and the "src.rpm" ones, if you need them just contact me Thanks! -- <-Manuel Escudero-> Linux User #509052 @GWave: jmlevick(a)googlewave.com @Blogger: http://www.blogxenode.tk/ (Xenode Systems Blog) PGP/GnuPG: DAE3 82E9 D68E 7AE4 ED31 1F8F 4AF4 D00C 50E7 ABC6

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Building RPM's and maintaining Packages...
by Manuel Escudero 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Hi! I was wondering if there is some kind of a guide or HowTo for building RPM's for fedora from some software source code and then pushing them to the repos or maintaining a package... For example, I see we only have one maintainer For Kmess, if I download the source for lastest Kmess stable download how can I convert it into a RPM and how do I push it into the repos to help this guy who's maintaining it? I need a "RPM Guide For Dummies" if you have one. xP Never Built anything before.. Thanks! -- <-Manuel Escudero-> Linux User #509052 @GWave: jmlevick(a)googlewave.com @Blogger: http://www.blogxenode.tk/ (Xenode Systems Blog) PGP/GnuPG: DAE3 82E9 D68E 7AE4 ED31 1F8F 4AF4 D00C 50E7 ABC6

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Tiff Readers from Fedora 5 versas Fedora 14 scanned from a Toshiba 350/550 scanner
by Gregory P. Ennis 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

List, I have been trying to debug a problem related to some scanned *.tif files by a Toshiba 350 and 550 copier scanner. We are copying this tif files from each of the copiers/scanners windows shared directory and then porting them to our fax. In testing this software I noticed the tiff reader on Fedora 14 would about 40 to 60 % of the time would display a corrupted image. I thought it was related to the Toshiba copiers/scanners. However, I discovered that these same files are read easily by tiff readers on Fedora 5. I also determined that when these same tif files are faxed using vsifax they are ok. Has anyone else noticed a problem with Fedora 14 tiff readers. All of the Tiff readers I have downloaded to this unit read the file in the same corrupted view. This would make me believe it is related to some library file that all tiff readers use. Not every scanned file is viewed as corrupted by Fedora 14. However, when a file appears corrupted on Fedora 14, it can be read as normal in Fedora 5. Any ideas as to a fix? Greg Ennis

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Re: Printing from WinXP machine to a F14 machin
by R. G. Newbury 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:12:43 -0600 Aaron Konstam wrote: >> > I have tried that and it has not worked. Could you desctibe exactly how >> > you did that. Which option in the Add Printer GUI did you use and what >> > did you type there: >> > I have tried: ipp://hostname/printer/<printer queue name> >> > and that did not work.. > I don't remember explicitly, but I see the printer url is defined > ashttp://fedora.box.name:631. > > Of course, I just tried to get to the printer properties for > the first time in about a year, and XP is telling me it > can't do it, so now it is busted for me too (I know I printed > my taxes last year from this same XP box :-). I ran into similar sort of problem trying to get a WINXP virtual instance to print through the F14 host. It turned out to depend on how the printer is connected to the network. #1) Attached to a print server using cups/lpd/lpp Use the 'network printer' option in the Printer Wizard. For my HP-1320 LaserJet connected using an SMC one-port print server. The server interface in my case is http://192.168.1.11:631 and the device URI in the Fedora setup is lpd:192.168.1.11/dummy. The WinXP guest printer uses: http://192.168.1.11:631/PASSTHRU where PASSTHRU is the 'name' of the print server port. You end up with a TCPIP port 'named' http://192.168.1.11:631/PASSTHRU and a printer named 'unknown on http://192..' etc. (there seems to be no way to name this printer). *************************** #2 Attached to a print server using hplip or some other method. Do NOT use 'network printer': use 'Local Printer' and create a TCPIP port for this printer. Under Fedora this printer shows up as 'socket:192.168.1.12:9100' and the browser interface to the server is accessed directly with http://192.168.1.12. (Note: no port address) Since my HP LaserJet MFC 3055 uses tcpip port 9100, I created a port 9100 and configured the port settings to 'RAW' (not LPD). You can name this printer whatever you want. I suspect the same considerations apply for an external real WINXP as to the virtual instance. It 'sees' the printer in the same way, in either case. The only funny thing is that the 'Network Attached' printer, is installed as a 'Local Printer'. Yes that did take a while to figure out... You might have to turn on printer sharing on the Fedora printer, so that external hosts are allowed to 'see' the 'IP:631' cups port. Geoff. -- R. Geoffrey Newbury Barrister and Solicitor Suite 106, 150 Lakeshore Road West Mississauga, Ontario, L5H 3R2 o905-271-9600 f905-271-1638 newbury(a)mandamus.org

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Frequent paging
by Suvayu Ali 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Hi Fedorans, My workstation has been paging a lot lately. It's a fairly high-end system, Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.6 GHz (overclocked, originally it was 3.0 GHz) and 2x2GB Corsair RAMs. lshw output: *-memory description: System Memory physical id: 19 slot: System board or motherboard size: 4GiB *-bank:0 description: DIMM 800 MHz (1.2 ns) physical id: 0 slot: A0 size: 2GiB width: 64 bits clock: 800MHz (1.2ns) *-bank:2 description: DIMM 800 MHz (1.2 ns) physical id: 2 slot: A2 size: 2GiB width: 64 bits clock: 800MHz (1.2ns) and my swap is 6 Gigs. $ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3961 3772 188 0 328 1129 -/+ buffers/cache: 2315 1645 Swap: 6143 153 5990 I used to be able to have uptimes of the order of a month without ever using a single Kb of my swap. But lately I start paging from a few Mb to several hundred Mb after about half a week. Whenever this happens, I find multitasking becomes impossible, e.g. opening a pdf interferes with music or video playback. I noticed a weak pattern, usually when I find my workstation is paging I have a few pdfs open. Lately I have been working with a lot of pdfs and most of these pdfs are about thousand page long documents (but only ~ 20-30 Mb in file size). I keep these open for reference as I work on my thesis. However closing evince doesn't help reduce the swap usage (at least not within the next 15-20 minutes). Apart from these symptoms I also find my system has become generally slow. Even opening the terminal or thunar (the XFCE file browser) takes a few seconds. I am on 2.6.34.8-68.fc13.x86_64. Does any one have any culprits in mind? -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.

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Firefox 4 RC1 Remi repo
by Jim Philips 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

I can't manage to update to RC1. When I try, yum tells me it depends on gecko-libs 2.0 RC1 and that package is not available. Anyone successfully update from the Remi repo?

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Redirection of mailto=root
by Erik P. Olsen 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Various routines send messages to root@<local domain> normally using the setting "mailto=root", For example /etc/anacrontab and /etc/crontab. Is there a central place where such can be redirected to an external mail address? -- Erik

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work with two monitors
by Urbano Alves 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Hi, well can anyone help me? I have a laptop, Asus Z92U. I have it conected with an external monitor, now both have the same information, the LCD by laptop and the external LCD (clone). But in the past and with Ubuntu, i put it work, both, with diferente information, like a large desktop. well, how can i do the same, with the operating system Fedora 14. best regards urbano

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