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Amarok hangs with recursive search enabled
by Gene Smith 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

On Friday before applying a f16 update I was using Amarok. I don't use it often but it seemed to be working OK. Then after the upgrade, on restarting amarok, it asked my location (US) for Amazon store which I entered (don't remember being asked that before). Anyhow, after the upgrade, Amarok would run for a short time and then hang with lots of disk activity going on but continue play a song. After killing it I noticed a amarokcollection indexer running in the background which I also killed. After starting it a back a few more times with the same result (Amarok hangs with the collection program running hard) I found that I had to disable recursive directory searches to prevent this in Amarok preferences. I think maybe amarok uses mysql but not sure. After this same upgrade that I applied on Friday, indexing a large LXR database with mysql took a *very* long time, as I mentioned in an previous post. Both of these problems seems to start after the Friday update that included a mysql update and possibly an amarok upgrade too. (LXR is a add-on sourceforge program that consists of perl scripts and is not part of Fedora.) -gene

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transmission, unity, the tray
by Matej Kosik 05 Feb '12

05 Feb '12

Hi, When I recently started to use Fedora, I lost the ability to run transmission so that when I close the main window, transmission continues to run but it packs itself to the "tray" (like "pidgin", "stardict", "skype" at al.) Can this be somehow enabled again? Thanks in advance.

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preventing drivers\modules from loading
by Frank Murphy 05 Feb '12

05 Feb '12

I have no need for the following in my kernels running as kvm guests. 8021q vlan support ppdev parallell port driver ( I have no legasy h\w requiring it. Is modprobe blacklist the safest bet. Rather than mucking about with custom kernels. -- Regards, Frank Murphy, friend of fedoraproject UTF_8 Encoded

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system-config-network
by Timothy Murphy 05 Feb '12

05 Feb '12

Is there something wrong with my Fedora-16/KDE setup, or has this command become completely useless? It used to show me the various interfaces on my computer, with information which I could edit about them. Now I am offered a single window (with a border of circumflex-ed a's!) with 2 choices: Device configuration and DNS configuration. If I choose the first I am just shown the ethernet connection to my laptop, which I am not using, with no information about it except for its name "p2p1". DNS configuration just shows me the content of /etc/resolv.conf . -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin

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Re: How do I get half my KDE panel back????
by DB 05 Feb '12

05 Feb '12

On 02/05/2012 01:00 PM, users-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: > Subject: > Re: How do I get half my KDE panel back???? > From: > Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko(a)greshko.com> > Date: > Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:26:45 +0800 > > To: > Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> > > > On 02/05/2012 06:18 PM, DB wrote: >> > What I'd like, is to move it out of the "lost& found" back into the >> > "Internet", and for the Orange Firefox icon to come back........ > Hover your mouse over "Applications" and then right click. Choose "Edit > Applications" and you will get a gui that should be self explanatory. Thanks Ed, It actually required me to hover over the "big K" icon lower left, right click, then drag firefox from "lost & found" into "internet". Success #1!!! Then I unlocked the widgets from the same place, went along to the "white page" icon clicked "icon settings" & waded through the whole pile of possible icons to find the Firefox one. After a few seconds, it transported itself into the "internet2 entry. After so many tries, it's good to have the real icon back!!!!!! Many thanks, Ed, Dave

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yum cachedir
by Frank Murphy 05 Feb '12

05 Feb '12

Quick question I want to keep the yum cache in yum.conf it's cachedir=/nfs/yum/$basearch/$releasever Would anyone see a problem for my needs in changing it to: cachedir=/nfs/yum/$releasever (which would be shared on the lan) that way I only need download "noarch" files once, for both i386\x86_64 -- Regards, Frank Murphy, friend of fedoraproject UTF_8 Encoded

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Re: How do I get half my KDE panel back????
by DB 05 Feb '12

05 Feb '12

On 02/05/2012 12:16 AM, users-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: >> > Please can someone tell me a) what this left-hand part of the panel is >> > called > It's called the task manager widget. Thanks, it's good to know what things are called!! > >> > b) how to get it back??? > Unlock widgets (if they are locked), open the panel settings (little yellow > thing at the right end), click "add widgets" and then choose task manager > (double-click it to put it on the panel). Drag it with the mouse to the > desired position on the panel. Close panel settings, and optionally lock > widgets. Great, thank you Marko, I never thought of a panel manager as a widget....... > >> > BTW, if anyone knows where/how to get the proper icon for Firefox back& >> > how to put it back into "Internet" from "Lost& found", I'd be grateful!!!! > I don't understand what "into Internet" means, and where is lost&found. Please > elaborate what is wrong and what you want. Ahh sorry, thought it was "Quite Clear"!!! When I click on the Fedora Application Launcher in the left-hand corner, I get a list of things to start grouped as "recently started", "applications" & "actions". Normally(!!) Firefox came up in the "Applications" "Internet" setting, & now is only to be found in "Applications""Lost and found""Firefox (Web browser)", without an icon. It appears in the panel as a 'white page' icon, rather than its normal orange Firefox icon. What I'd like, is to move it out of the "lost & found" back into the "Internet", and for the Orange Firefox icon to come back........ As ever. many thanks! Dave

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Fedora 16 and Chromium
by Roger 05 Feb '12

05 Feb '12

Interesting problem inststalling chromium in Fedora 16 I get an error: chromium-15.0.874.106-1.fc16.x86_64 requires libvpx.so.0()(64bit) yum whatprovides reports: libvpx-0.9.7.1-1.fc16.i686 : VP8 Video Codec SDK not the 64bit version. I have Fedora 16 -x86_64 - Updates and Test Updates switched on in software sources. All software is reoported up to date. I downloaded libvpx-0.9.7.1-1.fc16.x86_64.rpm <ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/x86_64/os/Packa…> from http://rpmfind.net/ but on install I get: Local Install failed-- Can't install libvpx-0.9.7.1-1.fc16.x86_64(1).rpm as no transaction. I've run out of ideas, what does the error "no transaction" mean and how can it be fixed please? thanks in advance Roger

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Re: libvpx issues, anyone?
by R. G. Newbury 04 Feb '12

04 Feb '12

On 02/04/2012 03:56 AM, Paul Smith<phhs80(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Roger<arelem(a)bigpond.com> wrote: >>> >> Does anyone except me had problems today with updating their F16 systems? >>> >> I seem to have dependency problems regarding ffmpeg-libs and/or libvpx. My >>> >> repos are standard Fedora ones and rpmfusion. And 'yum clean all' did not >>> >> help. >>> >> >> > Yes same here > Another one in the same situation. RPMFusion is probably not up to date yet. I ran into the same problem updating and had three packages from atrpms have a dependency issue. I thought it was a Fedora bug, but it was my error to not notice that the packages were atrpms and not fedora's. Wait till rpmfusion does a rebuild, or remove the packages from you box, download the SRPMS and rebuild them against the updated base ( ie, do what rpmfusion does). The Fedora Admin guide explains how. A skill worth knowing, too. Geoff

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ntpd
by Patrick Dupre 04 Feb '12

04 Feb '12

Hello, When I run system-config-services, ntpd does not show up (and does not run), but if I do service ntpd start then it shows up in the list of service. How can I make it run automatically after a reboot? Thank. -- --- ========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | Department of Chemistry | | Phone: (44)-(0)-1904-434384 The University of York | | Fax: (44)-(0)-1904-432516 Heslington | | York YO10 5DD United Kingdom | | email: patrick.dupre(a)york.ac.uk ==========================================================================

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