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Re: booting from DVD image on hard drive partition
by Jackson Byers 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

>>Michael, >>did you follow the Andras->Tom Horsley link? >Yes. See my previous reply. > done some experimenting since. >My machine can still boot from my FC13 installation disk. >I let it get as far as offering to test the media. I can't find my F14 disk. >I copied FC13's vmlinuz to a hard drive and >tried again with the grub command line. >The kernel command segfaulted again. >I even did a yum reinstall grub, but it didn't help. >The kernel command still segfaulted. I don't follow you at all; You are evidently even having trouble on your existing F!3 (or F14), exactly how I don't understand. You do need a working linux to do the hdinstall. --you are evidently not using a grub.conf but rather running grub from the cmdline, which in my opinion just further makes it likely to make errors. --you are evidently using a kickstart ks.cfg, about which I know nothing, but ks.cfg is not used in the Horsley prescription --why are you using the 'find' cmd in grub? You should know _exactly_ where you put the vmlinuz,initrd.img files extracted from the iso. And that info should be easily placed into a grub.conf stanza. You can also rename those files to vmlinuz-install, initrd.img-install which is recommended in the fedora project info, and which makes clear that they are intended for an "install" stanza, not to be confused with normal vmlinuz,.... Jack

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Samba service with Windows and dual boot...
by R. Welsh 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

Howdy, Have a couple of open items in forum that I haven't been able to resolve and am looking for guidance. Item 1: I have F16 installed on a system with Samba server 3.x. I have configured both directory shares and a printer share through Samba. I can access these shares from Win7, I can access the directory shares from WinVista but not the printer share, and I can't access these shares at all from WinXP. Any hints? Item 2: The Bootloader Configuration utility in F16 is looking for a grub.conf file under the /boot/grub directory instead of looking for grub.cfg under /boot/grub2. In spite of this, I am trying to setup dual boot on this system where I have the F16 on the primary hard drive and Win7 on the second hard drive. I've tried a few different menu entries based on example text in the grub documentation. Any guidance on where I can look for info on configuring dual boot Linux/Win7? Thanks. Bob W.

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L2TP
by Luc MAIGNAN 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

Hi, I'm looking for a HowTo that explains how to setup a L2TP over IPSEC tunnel for Fedora. Has someone an idea ? Thanks for any help

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disable automatic updates for ALL users (F16)
by Mike Zingale 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

On Fedora 16, the system defaults to do automatic updates for security, which can cause the system to break if you use external modules (like nvidia). I know that I can disable the automatic updates via gnome when I am logged into the machine, but if a different user later logs into the machine and didn't disable the updates as well, then the updates will occur and the machine will get broken again. I can't seem to find a way to disable automatic updates system-wide -- regardless of user. Can anyone help? Thanks.

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2 bogs please report a mayor and minnor
by Dokuro 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

hello can't post the bug, sorry the mayor one happends when a crash report is about to be generated on a crash while showing the overview if the crash is about to happen and the overview is activated the gnome shell crashes for good with a woops and no rebot helps the minor one is that while copying files the paste command on the left mouse menu seems unactivated but it can be used. -- OS: http://fedoraproject.org/es/ - http://www.linuxmint.com/ Graficos: http://www.blender.org - http://www.gimp.org Musica: http://www.jamendo.com - http://www.openoctave.org/ Recetas: http://www.recetas-sencillas.com/ - Politica: http://www.fsfla.org/svnwiki/ - http://www.gnu.org/

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RE: Is it me or is it sudo?
by Alan Gagne 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

> That's true. However, as I've explained, that line is commented out > while I'm debugging the issue with the username. I suppose, push comes > to shove that I can use an empty sudoers file except for that one line > in order to make absolutely certain nothing else is interfering, but > since Aaron Konstam verified that is /should/ work as I have it (as well > as others) I don't think I need to go that drastic. > > The one thing I haven't done is post my entire sudoers file. I will if > anyone thinks it'll help. > > I'm really not trying to be difficult here, but this is driving me nuts. You could also just add a file to /etc/sudoers.d. I believe these entries get processed last. I use the wheel group set-up with passwd in sudoers file so I just added a file using sudoedit /etc/sudoers.d/utest. Then added a line USERNAME ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL This overrides my wheel group entry and works fine. Alan

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xinetd reload via systemctl impossible: another systemd shortness or what?
by Franta Hanzlík 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

"systemctl reload xinetd.service" return message: Failed to issue method call: Job type reload is not applicable for unit xinetd.service. It is on Fedora 16 i386, fully actualised. Command "kill -HUP XINETD_PID" is working flawlessly. It is some known systemd problem? Franta

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xxxterm for fedora
by Ranjan Maitra 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

Hi, I have been using this browser for a while and I wonder whether the ISC license (something I had never heard of before) is something that allows for it to be packaged for fedora. Here is the license: https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/Main_Page And the software page is here: https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/xxxterm >From what I read there, the software will change its name to xombrero from the next release (or something like that). I was able to compile the git version without any trouble. Best wishes, Ranjan

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Sound Problem with USB Headphone
by Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

Hello, I'm running 64 bit Fedora 16 (All up to date) and gstreamer backend. Now the problem is: I was having no issues with sound whatsoever. But few days back I plugged in an USB headphone. That thing got proper sound and all but now I can't hear anything with it plugged in. I tried changing the order of the sound card (Internal, Manhattan,USB Audio) & looked into ALSA Mixer. But I just can't hear anything. And is there anyway to playback via XINE rather than gstreamer? I'm running KDE here. -- Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor Core Developer Intern, Diaspora <http://joindiaspora.com> Twitter - @Nirjhor <http://twitter.com/nirjhor>

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Gnome vs XFCE - Multiseat & window focus
by Zoltan Szecsei 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

Hi All, I see a nice healthy discussion on these DEs - please can someone with actual experience give me some guidance. As an Ububtu user, I am following this list because F17 will have "native" multiseat support. My staff run 1 (and only 1) application in Linux: A proprietary GIS package, to do spatial data capture. Nothing else. I've been using Ubuntu 6.06 only because multiseat was stable. I believe that Gnome messed that up so lately I've been using single seat boxes with Ubuntu 11.10, but the screen focus is annoyingly different. Yes I have tried different "preference" settings. So, my questions are: Does XFCE work in multiseat mode (or must it too wait for the F17 drivers/methodology) Which screen-focus methodology does XFCE use? (Like the older Gnome, or the newer Gnome) More on Screen Focus: The GIS package is NOT a GUI package, but rather a bunch of commands you can string together in BASH-syntax-like scripts that run within the package. I make heavy usage of one command that allows you to position the mouse somewhere on the graphics output screen, and then either click, or touch a key on the keyboard. This command then returns "button X Y" which you can trap, and then do further processing in your script. In other words, I now have a 104-button mouse. In the older Gnomes, when my script requested an input from the graphics locator, the focus would automatically drop to the graphics window, so touching the keyboard instead of clicking the mouse would send the "keypressed-X-Y" to the mouse-input que, and not the keyboard buffer. On the newer Gnomes, this is extremely erratic, and touching the keyboard instead of clicking the mouse sometimes (and not always) puts that key depression into the keyboard buffer (to create later havoc), but hangs my script until the operator manually focusses to the graphic screen and then does the mouse-point-key-depression "click". Extremely annoying, so I was wondering if any of you had in-depth knowledge of where this screen-focus issue might arise from, or whether XFCE was suitable for multiseat configurations. TIA, Zoltan -- =========================================== Zoltan Szecsei PrGISc [PGP0031] Geograph (Pty) Ltd. P.O. Box 7, Muizenberg 7950, South Africa. 65 Main Road, Muizenberg 7945 Western Cape, South Africa. 34° 6'16.35"S 18°28'5.62"E Tel: +27-21-7884897 Mobile: +27-83-6004028 Fax: +27-86-6115323 www.geograph.co.za ===========================================

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