Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!
by Valent Turkovic
My work Fedora 17 64bit box gangs without reason, and I can't track
down issue causing it! When I reboot into Windows 7 32bit it works for
days without any hangs.
This is a company PC so IT installed Windows 7, but I don't use it,
that is why I installed Fedora and use it as my primary desktop.
I'm not some guru sysadmin, but I'm not a newbie, as I have been using
Linux over 10 years as my primary desktop and have few private servers
that I maintain, I have troubleshooted and fixed numerous issues with
mine and friends machines.
My desktop works perfectly for hours, sometime for days, but after
some time (usually 1-2 days) it just freezes. It doesn't matter how
many free memory I have, which apps I'm runnig or which desktop I'm
using. I tried leaving just desktop running with no apps, still
freezes, changed desktops, kde - hangs, gnome 3 - hangs, mate - gangs,
tried leaving multiple apps doing something, still hangs. I ran memory
test utils, memory is working ok. These gangs are driving me nuts!
Is anybody having unexplained hangs with Fedora 16 and 17 64bit? Could
it be some 64bit issue because Windows is 32bit and it works?
How can I troubleshoot what is causing hangs of my machine?
Thanks.
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10 years, 12 months
Enabling Wireless network without NetworkManager
by Mickey
Fedora 17 / KDE
How do I enable Wireless network,
NetworkManager is disabled.
Wired Network is functioning normal.
I'm sure that all I have to do is enable the Wireless Network.
Module rt2800pci is loading and I can read MAC# of wireless card
ifcfg-wlan below
# Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
# for the documentation of these parameters.
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
TYPE=Wireless
HWADDR=00:15:af:e5:0b:49
GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=no
IPV6INIT=no
ESSID=dd-wrt
MODE=Managed
RATE=auto
NM_CONTROLLED=no
DNS2=8.8.0.0
DNS1=8.8.8.8
CHANNEL=
11 years, 1 month
KMail trash folder?
by Alan Evans
In KMail (F17), where is the "Trash" folder? If I select a message and then
click the "Move to Trash" button, where is the message moved to? How do I
recover accidentally deleted messages?
On the sidebar, there is only "inbox," "outbox," and "sent-mail" listed
under Local Folders.
-Alan
11 years, 1 month
Fedora 17
by Henrik Frisk
Hi,
I have now migrated to Fedora 17 (clean install) and configured and
installed most of what I need. Though I think everything looks very
good my computer is considerably less responsive than under fedora 13.
I haven't worked that much yet but emacs in particular is very slow.
Incorporating 5 messages into MH-E can take a couple of seconds. My
hardware is a MacBook Pro 5,2, I'm running nvidia drivers. Anyone
knows of something I can do to get it a bit more speedy?
Thanks,
/Henrik
11 years, 2 months
bluetooth connection between two computers using pand with Fedora 17: connection failed
by Kevin Wilson
Hello,
I am trying to create a simple bluetooth connection using pand with Fedora 17.
I followed these two links:
http://bluez.sourceforge.net/contrib/HOWTO-PAN
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1393215.html
And ran, on the server:
pand --listen --role=NAP
And on the client-side
pand --connect btAddressOfServer
I see this on the client side:
...
Connecting to 00:23:4E:E5:70:3A
Bluetooth: Unexpected continuation frame (len 0)
Bluetooth: Unexpected continuation frame (len 0)
bluetoothd[602]: input-headset driver probe failed for device 00:23:4E:E5:70:3A
input-headset driver probe failed for device 00:23:4E:E5:70:3A
Connect to 00:23:4E:E5:70:3A failed. Operation now in progress(115)
...
I also activated hcidump and it did not show something which might be
considered as an error.
Did anybody tried it and it worked for him ?
Any ideas what can be the problem?
When I try to switch sides I get the same problem.
I use fedora 17 with these rpms:
bluez-4.99-2.fc17.x86_64
bluez-compat-4.99-2.fc17.x86_64
rgs
Kevin
11 years, 2 months
None
by jiwa navid
i am getting the same "oh no something went wrong.......logout n try again" msg after installing vlc.
can any 1 give me solution to this. i really want to get it fixed.
@Alexander Volovics <a.volovic at upcmail.nl>
11 years, 2 months
blacklisting domains for yum?
by Joel Rees
Looking in the man pages (man-db itself not in the minimal install?
Wow! It's only 1.7M and not having it continually catches someone
off-guard. I'm sure I'm not going to remember this next time I do a
minimal install.) for yum, not finding a way to black-list domains.
What I'm trying to do, the chinese servers get read early in the
rotation, and they were dogs last night. 1KB/s and slowing down. Not
sure if it's the censoring they are shooting themselves in the foot
with or the line between here and there or overloading on a Friday
night (Porn on the back channels? highly probable in totalitarian and
near-totalitarian countries.) or what. Don't care. I don't trust any
server in China right now, and I have reason not to right now, other
than simple prejudice. (Such as baidu ignoring my no robots
directives.)
So I want to block yum from going to any domain in .cn .
Is there an easy way to do it, either in yum.conf or in yum.repos.d/*
, short of disabling the metalinks and grabbing the list of mirrors
from the mirrors page and deleting the Chinese servers?
(Or setting my own mirrors list up and refreshing it periodically from
mirrors.fedoraproject.org, deleting the Chinese servers as I refresh
them. That would be a lot of work, too.)
--
Joel Rees
11 years, 2 months
yum group for the security spin?
by Joel Rees
Is/are there any sort of yum group(s) that would aid in building an OS
install that includes the security lab stuff? (Tried yum groupinfo
"Security Lab" and got no carrot. Somehow I found the menu package,
but that doesn't automatically populate the menu with installed
packages.)
--
Joel Rees
11 years, 2 months
Partitioning between SDD and HDD
by Javier Perez
Hi
I am looking forward to rebuild my system.
I want to buy a SSD to place all fixed, operating system files in there and
use the HDD for my Data and variable operating system files.
looks like /home and /var should go on the HDD.
Can I have a small ramdisk to place /var/run or would it cause instability
issues if I try to hibernate/sleep the system?
This would be a desktop system, right now I am tripple booting
Ubuntu/Win2k/Fedora on it.
Another question, is it possible to combine the /boot partition of Fedora
with the one of Ubuntu 12.04? I think both are using grub2 nowadays, or
would it be asking for endless trouble?
What partition scheme would you recommend? How big an SSD would I need?
I look forward to a system that boots faster and works faster when starting
up programs and such, and I want to minimize wear and tear on the SSD (I
understand they have a limit on rewrites)
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11 years, 2 months