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OpenSSH ECDSA support
by Carsten Mattner 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

I've tried to search bugzilla and forums for information on ECDSA support in the Fedora provided OpenSSH packages, but didn't find anything conclusive. What is the status?

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Looking for a Fedora tool that replaces Google Scribe
by Paul Smith 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

Dear All, Is there some Fedora tool equivalent to SwiftKey or to the extinct Google Scribe: http://www.swiftkey.net/ Thanks in advance, Paul

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Network install of Fedora 16 problems
by n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

I am having no luck trying to install Fedora 16, it hangs part way through installation, then if a re-installation then tries to fix it, it fails to boot from grub. Removed an Advantages SCSI card Tried increasing latency in BIS Tried installing from network install CD Tried installing from KDE Live CD Tried install over prevision install Tried install using whole drive I can boot KDE Live CD in simple graphics mode Currently I'm trying to use just the Fedora 16 repository, no updates. If that fails I will disconnect the ATAPI Zip drive before retrying This is disappointing as I was hoping Fedora 16 would solve the many reported problems with Fedora 15.. Much as I like Fedora and have used it since Fedora core 2, this must be the most number of difficulties I've ever had, (Fedora 15+16)) that I have not found a remedy. Here's to hoping Fedora 17 eventually returns to the stability of Fedora 14 If anyone has had similar problems that they managed to remedy, I'd love to here what you did. Unfortunately, as this is a tedious time consuming thing to do I'm not prepared to provide more detailed information, or attempt to do so, as past experience trying to do so was a somewhat unpleasant. Regards cpp4ever

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Hibernate: not enough swap space
by Geoffrey Leach 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

This is a fresh install of Fedora 16 on a new laptop with 8GB memory. When I attempt to hibernate from the Session Menu I get a popup with the message: Failed to hibernate session Not enough swap space. Here's the disk layout: (parted) print Model: ATA WDC WD7500BPKT-0 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 750GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 106MB 105MB primary ntfs boot 2 106MB 42.8GB 42.7GB primary ntfs 3 42.8GB 43.3GB 524MB primary ext4 4 43.3GB 750GB 707GB extended 5 43.3GB 148GB 105GB logical ext4 6 148GB 358GB 210GB logical ext4 7 358GB 463GB 105GB logical ext4 8 463GB 473GB 10.5GB logical fat32 9 473GB 484GB 10.5GB logical ext4 10 484GB 493GB 9437MB logical linux-swap(v1) 11 493GB 493GB 1049kB logical ext2 12 493GB 750GB 257GB logical ext4 As you can see, I've allocated 9GB for swap. Any suggestions?

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/sbin/shutdown -r +5 doesn't work since recent systemd upgrade
by Patrick Horgan 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

# uname -r 2.6.41.10-3.fc15.x86_64 First there was an upgrade: Feb 12 05:09:27 s3 yum[14291]: Updated: systemd-units-26-16.fc15.x86_64 Feb 12 05:09:43 s3 systemd[1]: Reexecuting. Feb 12 05:09:44 s3 systemd[1]: systemd 26 running in system mode. (+PAM +LIBWRAP +AUDIT +SELINUX +SYSVINIT +LIBCRYPTSETUP; fedora) Feb 12 05:09:44 s3 yum[14291]: Updated: systemd-26-16.fc15.x86_64 Feb 12 05:09:45 s3 yum[14291]: Updated: systemd-sysv-26-16.fc15.x86_64 Feb 12 05:09:50 s3 systemd[1]: Reloading. Feb 12 05:09:32 s3 yum[14291]: Updated: kernel-headers-2.6.42.3-2.fc15.x86_64 Feb 12 05:09:40 s3 yum[14291]: Installed: kernel-2.6.42.3-2.fc15.x86_64 Then, when a cron job noticed the new kernel and tried to do a shutdown timed reboot via /sbin/shutdown -r +5 in /var/log/messages I get: Feb 13 03:00:01 s3 systemd-shutdownd[2733]: Received message without credentials. Ignoring. and the system does not reboot. Since it talked about credentials, I double checked that selinux is not active on the machine: # /usr/sbin/sestatus SELinux status: disabled yum update is done every day, but the problem still persists. The cron job notices every day that the running kernel is not the new one and tries to schedule a reboot and the same error message gets into the logs. I have been reading about systemd. I've read everything on the wiki, the man pages, and on Lennart's blog. I've watched videos of his presentation about systemd and I STILL don't have a clue. My next choice is to use strace on the pid and see what happens when I try the shutdown so I can see what it's trying to do that makes is issue the log message, but I was hoping someone here would know;) Patrick

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Recovery mode. Login as root without password
by Emilio Lopez 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

Hello, If I select recovery in grub menu, Fedora starts as root without asking for password. Is this the expected behavior? Emilio.

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OT: Sending e-mails from a database
by Paul Smith 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

Dear All, Sorry for this out of topic post, but I do not know of more appropriate forum. I would like to send several e-mails from a GMail account and with the same content but with a different opening for each recipient. Is it possible to accomplish it with Fedora? Thanks in advance, Paul

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prips rpm
by Mihamina Rakotomandimby 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

Hi all, I have a shell script using prips on Debian: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/prips I migrated to Fedora (16) and cant find a rpm of this software. The source is here: https://gitorious.org/prips Would you know an equivalent, or an unofficial rpm or src.rpm somewhere? -- RMA.

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F16 occasionally breaks RAID1 (md) on boot
by Andreas M. Kirchwitz 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Hello users of Linux software RAID! I have two identical harddisks, and on a freshly installed Fedora 16 all my filesystems (/boot, /, /home, /usr/local, /opt, swap) are set up as software RAID1 (md). Occasionally (about every second boot), Fedora 16 silently removes one of the mirrors from the RAID1 devices. Sometimes this happens for just one device, sometimes for up to three. So far, it never happened to "/boot", "/" and swap but only to "/home", "/usr/local" and "/opt". The harddisks are fine. There are no errors in /var/log/messages. SMART is happy. Partition tables, partition types etc. are identical for both disks. As said, it doesn't happen always, so hardware and configuration should be okay in general. There must be a bug in the kernel or in the startup scripts that assemble the RAID devices during the boot process. If I do "mdadm --add /dev/mdX /dev/sdaX" everything is fine after a couple of seconds. All the UUIDs are fine. It's all there and as it should be. There's no reason what goes wrong during startup. So far, it never happened to the second harddisk (/dev/sdb), only the primary harddisk (/dev/sda) was affected. With Fedora 14 (and before), I never had such issues. Basically the same problem has been reported by Sam Varshavchik in <cone.1323864504.969555.2535.1000(a)monster.email-scan.com> but there wasn't a final solution. Fact is, that the failing RAID devices are not mentioned in the kernel options in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg. I've checked with my old F14 config (GRUB1), but it was the very same there (only /boot, / and swap were specified, but no other RAID devices). And F14 worked perfectly fine. And it works with F16 also, but just not always. Software RAID is a mess in Fedora 16. First that issue with /boot on RAID-1, now the startup process fails to assemble RAID devices. Greetings, Andreas

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VMware workstation 8 on linux 2.6.42 (Fedora 15) anyone?
by Dean S. Messing 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

A recent update installed the 2.6.42.3-2 kernel and now VMware Workstation 8.0.2 (and 8.0.1) won't compile its modules. Does anyone know if module patches have been issued. I've been unable to find them. Secondarily, is anyone here running Workstation 8 with the 2.6.42 kernel? Thanks!

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