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Problem mounting on loop device
by Geoffrey Leach 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

Testing creation of dvd backup, I start getting complaints of "stolen" loop device. Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong root@mtranch[61]->mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop2 /tmp/dvd.iso / media/CDROM mount: stolen loop=/dev/loop2

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NAT64
by Trever L. Adams 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

Does anyone have any experience with NAT64 on this list? I am in a situation where I may have to implement this and all routers are Linux based. I have found TAYGA, but it seems to have problems. I have seen Linux NAT64 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxnat64/_ and haven't tried it yet. I am curious as to what others have seen and tried. Thank you, Trever -- "You can surrender Without a prayer But never ever pray Pray without surrender You can fight Fight without ever wining But you can never ever win Win without fight" -- Niel Peart

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creating .rpm files for special installations
by g 22 Jul '11

22 Jul '11

greetings. on firefox tsl, a user of ubuntu needs to run a lan system wide installation of an extension to firefox. a reply was to create a .deb package and put in a local repository, add local repo to all clients repo list. to add an extension to firefox, appending to some config files is required. not recalling all abilities of rpm, my question is, can rpm/yum append to existing files? tia. -- peace out. tc.hago, g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** The installation instructions stated to install Windows 2000 or better. So I installed Linux. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****

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network config
by Thomas Schweikle 22 Jul '11

22 Jul '11

Hi! After consulting the handbook and various further internet sites I am a bit lost: starting up my fedora system it only activates network interface lo. no other network interface is brought up until I login and start it with "ifup eth0". Quite bad, if you expect to reach the system via ssh. Any idea how I'll get that interface up together with the machine, without having a user login and activate it? I have /etc/sysconfig/network: NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=tola.fritz.box /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: DEVICE="eth0" BOOTPROTO="dhcp" ONBOOT=yes NM_CONTROLLED="no" TYPE=Ethernet Rebooting doesn't enable eth0, only lo. -- Thomas

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PDF files that are not simple links?
by Tom Horsley 22 Jul '11

22 Jul '11

Does anyone know what the deal is these days with lots of web sites and PDF files? (I just encountered one on my online pharmacy for instance, and back at the beginning of the year when trying to access my W2 forms online). I have no problem with a simple link to a real PDF file, but now sites are doing some kind of magic voo-doo that (on Windows, where it works) pops up the PDF in a new window which has some sort of magic toolbar that appears when you mouse over it. I have no idea what kind of thing is being used to display this, or why so many web sites think it is a good idea to prevent their customers from accessing the site on linux. All I get on linux is an about:blank new window where nothing appears. Anyone know if this nonsense has a name I can search for or better yet, a firefox plugin that will enable me to just access the damn PDF file?

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convert virtualbox .ova to kvm/qemu qcow2
by Neal Becker 22 Jul '11

22 Jul '11

I exported an xp appliance from vb to .ova. Then I did qemu-img convert xp.ova -O qcow2 xp-disk1.img no complaints. But trying to boot it in qemu/kvm, I get 'not a bootable disk'. Any ideas?

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RECOVERING FEDORA AFTER WINDOWS XP
by shailesh 22 Jul '11

22 Jul '11

i have installed windows xp over fedora 15. How do I recover the fedora bootloader now? in running fdisk -l it displays /dev/sda1 ..... ..... ntfs /dev/sda2 ..... ..... ntfs /dev/sda3 ..... .....ntfs /dev/sda4 ..... ..... ntfs /dev/sda5 ..... ..... ntfs /dev/sda6 ..... ..... swap /dev/sda7 ..... ..... linux I tried chroot /mnt/sysimage          grub-install /dev/sda7          Ctrl+D (twice) But its not booting. The boot menu appears but error is displayed regarding unable to mount device

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systemd: call script BEFORE shutdown
by Reindl Harald 22 Jul '11

22 Jul '11

what is the best way to place a shellscript which is called as soon as possible before shutdown/reboot happens? in my case for VMware-Workstation to suspend possibly in the background running virtual machines since systemd vreaks the logic of the the /etc/init.d/vmware important is that the system must wait until this script is really finished what can take some minutes /lib/systemd/system-shutdown /lib/systemd/systemd-shutdown /lib/systemd/systemd-shutdownd /lib/systemd/system/canberra-system-shutdown-reboot.service /lib/systemd/system/canberra-system-shutdown.service /lib/systemd/system/shutdown.target /lib/systemd/system/shutdown.target.wants /lib/systemd/system/systemd-shutdownd.service /lib/systemd/system/systemd-shutdownd.socket /lib/systemd/system/systemd-update-utmp-shutdown.service /lib/systemd/system/shutdown.target.wants/alsa-store.service /lib/systemd/system/shutdown.target.wants/hwclock-save.service /lib/systemd/system/shutdown.target.wants/systemd-random-seed-save.service /lib/systemd/system/shutdown.target.wants/systemd-update-utmp-shutdown.service /lib/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/systemd-shutdownd.socket

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printer not detected in fedora 15
by Kenneth Gonsalves 22 Jul '11

22 Jul '11

hi, I have a deskjet F440 that works perfectly in fedora 14. But in 15 the scanner works fine, but the printer is not showing up in the add printer screen. >From /var/log/messages: Jul 21 12:31:51 xlquest kernel: [ 1533.376082] usb 2-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 Jul 21 12:31:51 xlquest kernel: [ 1533.491000] usb 2-4: New USB device found, idVendor=03f0, idProduct=7711 Jul 21 12:31:51 xlquest kernel: [ 1533.491044] usb 2-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 Jul 21 12:31:51 xlquest kernel: [ 1533.491053] usb 2-4: Product: Deskjet F4400 series Jul 21 12:31:51 xlquest kernel: [ 1533.491060] usb 2-4: Manufacturer: HP Jul 21 12:31:51 xlquest kernel: [ 1533.491067] usb 2-4: SerialNumber: CN03SC14ZS05C5 Jul 21 12:31:51 xlquest kernel: [ 1533.492543] usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 6 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x7711 Jul 21 12:32:09 xlquest dbus-daemon: [system] Activating service name='org.opensuse.CupsPkHelper.Mechanism' (using servicehelper) Jul 21 12:32:09 xlquest dbus-daemon: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.opensuse.CupsPkHelper.Mechanism' Jul 21 12:32:09 xlquest kernel: [ 1551.215473] cups-pk-helper-[23039]: segfault at c ip 080506b1 sp bf8caae0 error 4 in cups-pk-helper-mechanism[8048000+d000] -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

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Overwriting a 4096 byte sector harddisk drive with random data
by yudi v 22 Jul '11

22 Jul '11

Hi I need to write random data to a partition before encrypting it. Suggested way is to use urandom: #dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda2 What is the use of operand "bs" in the following case? I see the above command executed as follows sometime: #dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda2 bs=1M For the hard drive I got, should I use the following command: #dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda2 bs=4096 >From what I understand, the first command above will write data in 512 byte blocks, the second one in 1MB blocks, and the third in 4096 byte blocks. Right? I am a bit confused about the usage of this operand in this case. -- Kind regards, Yudi

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