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Is it me or is it sudo?
by Mark Haney 31 Mar '12

31 Mar '12

I'm kinda confused by the sudo problem I'm having. I've edited the main file with visudo to include: ## Allow root to run any commands anywhere root ALL=(ALL) ALL markh ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL (obviously only the last line was my addition) But for some reason, it makes no difference at all. I'm still required to input my password. What gives? I've not had this problem before so I don't know where to start. -- Mark Haney Software Developer/Consultant AB Emblem markh(a)abemblem.com Linux marius.homelinux 3.3.0-4.fc16.x86_64 GNU/Linux

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interactive kickstart ?
by Gabriel Somlo 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

Is there any way to keep environment variables across different sections of a kickstart file ? E.g., if during %pre I solicit some input: %pre echo "enter bootloader password now:" > /dev/tty read -s GRUBPW < /dev/tty echo "you entered: ${GRUBPW}" > /dev/tty export GRUBPW %end ... is there any way to make $GRUBPW visible later on, on the 'bootloader' line in the main section of the kickstart file? I.e., can I make something like this work: bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda --password=${GRUBPW} Is there a better way to solicit the bootloader password interactively (as I'd prefer not to publish it in a kickstart file, for reasons similar to why I'm not including a 'rootpw' line) ? Also, this is not the only application. I'd like to use environment variables read during %pre in %post (in order to ask all the questions early on, then proceed with an unattended install). Thanks for any ideas, suggestions, or pointers. --Gabriel

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Nightingale RPM or Repo
by Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

Hello, Is there any repo or RPM for the awesome music player that is Nightingale ? Thanks :-) -- Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor Core Developer Intern, Diaspora <http://joindiaspora.com> Twitter - @Nirjhor <http://twitter.com/nirjhor>

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xorg.conf for HDMI
by lokesh kumar 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

I want to have a display on tv from a customize board via HDMI port, what modifications i need to make in xorg.conf and other configuration files regards

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A bit OT: git - ridiculous memory requirements
by Vaclav Mocek 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

Hi all, I have a cloned GCC git repository, on PC with 1.5GB of RAM and 3GB swap. When I run "$git gc --aggressive", I will get after few hours an error: $ git gc --aggressive Counting objects: 1332887, done. Delta compression using up to 2 threads. fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 4838335 bytes) error: failed to run repack $ 4.5GB of memory is not enough, what is that? I wonder what git is internally doing, it seems to me as a pretty non-optimal implementation. It is the first application I have which has been killed by OOM killer. The size of .git directory is >900MB. BR Vaclav M.

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openbox not fully logging out
by Joel Rees 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

I have openbox (from the F16 security live image via live USB install) on a lenovo s100 and, sometime in the last couple of kernel updates, it likes to hang up on logging out. Switch to a virtual console and do a ps, and openbox is there's a leftover process that won't die. I've been able to do telinit 2 and then log back in and telinit 5 to bring it back, but the next time I tried that without re-booting, it just hung. (Not sure what target I would be specifying for systemctl Not sure what to look for in /var/log. -- Joel Rees

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Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?
by Timothy Murphy 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

I wonder if I am alone in finding some of the developments in Fedora-16 actually make life harder for the user? I'd take grub2 and systemctl as two examples. In each case I've read the documentation and understand the motivation behind these developments. But I remain unconvinced that the gains outweigh the disadvantages of methods that are much harder to configure and use. I don't think this is just a matter of unfamiliarity. I think one can say objectively that the new methods are more complicated than those they replace. As a crude measure of complication the new commands take longer to type than the old, eg "systemctl start openvpn(a)client.service" compared with "start service openvpn". And the output of the new commands seems much more verbose than the old: eg compare the output of "systemctl -a" or "systemctl list-units" with that of "chkconfig --list". Could anyone bringing in these changes have honestly answered "Yes" if asked whether the new method would simplify life for the user? -- 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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Various Sound Backend - Why?
by Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

Hello, This one is general Linux question. Up until Fedora 15, there was xine and then there was gstreamer (Which contains good,bad & ugly) . Then there was fluendo. Except xine, the later ones still exist. I mean, they all are sound backend / codec, right? Then why having many of them? -- Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor Core Developer Intern, Diaspora <http://joindiaspora.com> Twitter - @Nirjhor <http://twitter.com/nirjhor>

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F16 Desktop Vanished
by Jonathan Allen 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

Dear List, I recently installed F16/XFCE-spin on my daughter's laptop (as its hardware can't cope with Gnome 3). The desktop was set up fine, with the usual folders, a few of her documents and a background picture as wallpaper. All of a sudden, the screen desktop is clean, no folder and no wallpaper. The files/documents still exist and can be accessed in ~/Desktop but they are not displayed any more. Changing the wallpaper using the XFCE display settings has no effect. Can anyone tell me what happened or how to fix it? Jonathan

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grub2 prompt vs LVM
by Braden McDaniel 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

I've had an rpm upgrade from Fedora 15 to 16 go slightly sideways and I've wound up with a grub prompt upon boot. I found <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GRUB_2>; alas, it seems to be missing information about what one does when one's root partition is on an LVM volume. Do I need a Live CD to recover at this point? -- Braden McDaniel e-mail: <braden(a)endoframe.com> <http://endoframe.com> Jabber: <braden(a)jabber.org>

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