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Gnome 3 child process inheritance problems Number 2
by Robert McBroom 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

palimpsest doesn't ask for root password so while it runs it is useless. Switching a terminal window to a root terminal with su - Attempting to start any gui program gives a sequence- ---------------- There are multiple lines No protocol specified ending with Display localhost:0.0 unavailable The environment variable $DISPLAY in the child terminal session has localhost:0.0 Tried variations on the DISPLAY setting :0.0, :0, localhost:0 but doesn't help. Ideas? New Data-- Starting a child terminal window with sudo allows gui programs to find the display. Child gui programs requiring privilege started directly with sudo work as well. What would this be filed against in Bugzilla? Robert McBroom

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Continued kernel updates for F14?
by Christopher Svanefalk 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

Hey all, for those of us who are a little reluctant about moving to Gnome3 just yet, does anyone know if there are plans to release rpms of kernel versions later than 2.6.35 for F14? Best, Chris

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Gnome 3 child process inheritance problems
by Robert McBroom 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

Starting an alternate session with ctrl-alt f2 and starting up the gui. Using startx -- :1 for alternate session. Top level stuff launched from the menus works but starting programs from a terminal session fails. There are multiple lines No protocol specified ending with Display localhost:0.0 unavailable The environment variable $DISPLAY still has localhost:0.0 not what would be appropriate for the alternate session. If I remember correctly it should be localhost:1.0 but setting the variable to that doesn't work. Ideas? Robert McBroom

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slim (simple login manager)
by John Schmitt 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

slim started up fine when this machine was running Fedora 14. I installed it from for Fedora 15: slim-1.3.2-8.fc15.x86_64 It doesn't start any more. I get this in /var/log/slim.log: slim: unexpected signal 15 sh: /usr/bin/xauth: Permission denied I'm trying to launch slim by changing my /etc/sysconfig/desktop from: DESKTOP="KDE" DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" to: DESKTOP="OPENBOX" DISPLAYMANAGER=/usr/bin/slim-dynwm How do I fix this? John PS Sorry if this received twice, email mumble mumble

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F-15 Scanner Tool -
by Bob Goodwin 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

I believe Scanner Tool translates to xsane? I know I had an application that permitted editing those names in the menu but can't recall its name? I'm trying to copy a page of clear text with an HP-5370C flat bed scanner that I have been using for some time. I am using xsane which I believe I installed via yum before I realized that Scanner Tool meant xsane. Scanner Tool will not start apparently because it sees another version of xsane. That's not really my problem however. I have saved scans as .png and .pnm and neither will print a clear copy. The text looks as though it was copied through the mesh of a window screen and is hard to read. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? Bob

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Adding a Package to Fedora System?
by Michael D. Setzer II 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

I've been the maintainer of the G4L project for about 6 or 7 years now, and I've been building it with my Fedora systems and using it on them to do disk and partition images. Normally, it is run from a cd, but one can simple copy the kernel file and ramdisk.lzma file to the boot directory, and add a few lines to the grub.conf to make it a boot option into ram to make images or restore them. Was looking on getting info on what the process would be to do this. For me it is very useful, and I hope those that download it from sourceforge also find it so. Thanks. +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@kuentos.guam.net mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS SETI 11188861.827016 | EINSTEIN 6464865.409851 ROSETTA 3561096.658837 | ABC 7821437.013274

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Continued problems with kernel 2.6.40.3-0 and nvidia 280.13-2 in fc15 ?
by linux guy 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

Am I the only one having problems with kernel 2.6.40.3-0 and/or (a)kmod-nvidia 280.13-2 in fc14 and/or fc15 ? My Dell duo won't boot the afore mentioned kernel at all. It fails with a kernel bug message. It runs prior kernels just fine. My HP laptop freezes during a graphical session login with the aforementioned kernel and nvidia module. It did so in FC14. I upgraded to fc15 and it does the same thing. The same laptop runs the F15 Live iso just fine and also runs the aforementioned kernel from the cli just fine. The problem is only when a graphical session is being used. Is anyone else having the same problem or is it just me ?

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