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Opening X.pub files
by Aaron Konstam 04 Mar '12

04 Mar '12

Is there a fedora available program that will open (manage) X.pub files? -- ======================================================================= "Nuclear war would really set back cable." -- Ted Turner ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net

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cant ping from behind proxy box
by Zoltan Szecsei 04 Mar '12

04 Mar '12

Hi, Sorry - newbie to fedora, and google is driving me mad ! I've just setup up a F17alpha box, and am trying to ping the internet from behind my Ubuntu proxy server, which also runs bind. I have set GATEWAY in /etc/sysconfig/network I have put nameserver 192.168.0.1 into /etc/resolv.conf I have done a export http_proxy=http://192.168.0.1:3128 I have done a /etc/init.d/network restart and I still cannot ping by IP nor by dnsalias name but this all works from other ubuntu boxes, and of course from the server machine itself. I can also ping all the PCs on my internal network. Please can someone tell me my deliberate mistake in this regard. 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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recommend some info on hot to upgrade from F15 to F16 using preupgrade
by Martín Marqués 04 Mar '12

04 Mar '12

That's all I want (what's in the subject). I've had some headaches with preupgrade, basically, I guess, because I have /var on another partition. -- Martín Marqués select 'martin.marques' || '@' || 'gmail.com' DBA, Programador, Administrador

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Re: no sound after yum update of working FC16
by dave perry 04 Mar '12

04 Mar '12

On 03/04/2012 03:17 AM, dave perry wrote: > This evening I did a "sudo yum update" which included a new kernel and > kernel headers. So I reinstalled the Nvidia proprietary driver > (290.10), rebooted and now I have no sound. This morning after booting the new kernel again, all is working; sound is back. I have no idea what changed. I changed nothing! Sorry for the noise. Dave P.

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Getting Video to work with Netscape (F14)
by Reg Clemens 04 Mar '12

04 Mar '12

OK, Im sure this has been covered a dozen times, but my scans of the listdon't come up with anything. I just recently brought up F14 on one machine. Netscape is there, but when I go to watch a video from Netscape it tells me This CNN feature is optimized for Adobe Flash Player version 10.1 or higher. I push the buttons as requested, and Flash seems to be LOADED, but not connected to Netscape. What do I do??? I remember a screen where you had to set these things 'on' in a previous Netscape, but cant find that screen in the current one. Thanks in advance. -- Reg.Clemens reg(a)dwf.com

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KDE backlight control - backlighthelper not running?
by Maciek Borzęcki 04 Mar '12

04 Mar '12

I'm seeing an odd issue with KDE and screen backlight control. I'm running Thinkpad T60, with KDE 4.7 (from updates) and unfortunately the backlight control does not work. Pressing Fn+Home/Fn+End does not seem to have any effect. I normally have to tweak hotkey mask to something like 0xffffff in order to have the proper key events appear, and it does work but only in Gnome and Xfce. Before anyone suggests reinstalling bash, I've already done it (otherwise it wouldn't work in Xfce). Looking at the logs: - kded debugs: kded(2495) PowerDevil::BackendLoader::loadBackend: Loading UPower backend... kded(2495) PowerDevil::BackendLoader::loadBackend: Success! kded(2495) KDEDPowerDevil::init: Backend loaded, loading core kded(2495) PowerDevil::Core::loadCore: Core loaded, initializing backend kded(2495) PowerDevilUPowerBackend::brightness: Screen brightness: 0 <---- why is current brightness 0? kded(2495) PowerDevilUPowerBackend::init: current screen brightness: 0 kded(2495) PowerDevilUPowerBackend::init: Can suspend kded(2495) PowerDevilUPowerBackend::init: Can hibernate kded(2495) PowerDevil::Core::onBackendReady: Backend is ready, KDE Power Management system initialized - messages - nothing about backlight helper being activated - .xsession-errors - nothing related Since it does not work with 4.7 from updates, I updated to 4.8 from kde48 repo. Unfortunately, with similar results. As a last resort I checked with KDE live spin, and amazingly, backlight control works. So something between the current version of packages and the one from live KDE spin, things got broken. Correct me if I'm wrong, but looking at the code, I see that in order to control the backlight, there's a helper program (/usr/libexec/kde4/backlighthelper) which starts through dbus activation, and exposes brigthness, setbrigthness methods. I take that once started the demon should remain running at lest for some time. Now in KDE spin, that happens to be the case, I can clearly see backlighthelper process listed in ps output (there are also logs in messages, that activation of backlighthelper was successful). However, right now, no such log is to be found, as if for some reason backlight helper does not get started. Any ideas on how to proceed with debugging this? Thanks, -- Maciek Borzecki

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Need help USB modem
by Roger 04 Mar '12

04 Mar '12

A friend of my daughter has converted from windows to Linux just yesterday but has a Sierra Aircard 312U wireless USB modem and cannot get internet on the laptop. I've spoent hours googling to no avail. Search shows that this modem is useless for Linux so can someone please tell me which wireless usb modems work best on all linux flavours, easy to set up, etc. There's got to be something but I haven't had any luck finding information. If this change is successful there could follow at least 3 others so I really need help here please. Cheers and thanks in advance Roger

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sudo
by Patrick Dupre 04 Mar '12

04 Mar '12

Hello, With fedora 14 I cannot make sudo works fine. sudo-1.7.4p5-2.fc14.x86_64 I edited /etc/sudoers (with visudo)B I set: user1 teucidide=/sbin/shutdown -h now or %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL user1 is member of wheel user1 teucidide=/sbin/shutdown -h now But every time I get: user1 is not allowed to run sudo on teucidide. This incident will be reported. I also get: teucidide : Mar 4 02:38:21 : user1 : no valid sudoers sources found, quitting ; TTY=pts/3 ; PWD=/home/user1 ; COMMAND=/sbin/shutdown /etc/sudoers has the correct rights. /etc/sudoers.d is empty What is wrong? -- --- ========================================================================== 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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How to clean up Yum mess?
by Arthur Dent 04 Mar '12

04 Mar '12

Hello all, Regular readers will know that I have just recovered from a kernel panic on my F16 box. This was caused by an automatic update not completing properly. I really don't like the new system of fully-automatic or manual-only updates. I preferred the pre F15 method of informing you by means of an applet when updates are available. Anyway I chose to go with auto because I would probably forget otherwise and I kind of liked the idea that the system would be kept up to date in the background. I now see that this was a mistake because there is no mechanism for warning you that updates are taking place. I presume I shut down the system blissfully unaware that I was about to wreak havoc on it as updates had only partially completed. Running you manually it gave me a warning that there were unfinished jobs, but when I allowed it to attempt to complete them it failed with a message saying something like timestamp was different or something. "yum check" shows the following: # yum check Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit glibc-2.14.90-24.fc16.6.i686 is a duplicate with glibc-2.14.90-24.fc16.4.i686 glibc-common-2.14.90-24.fc16.6.i686 is a duplicate with glibc-common-2.14.90-24.fc16.4.i686 glibc-headers-2.14.90-24.fc16.6.i686 is a duplicate with glibc-headers-2.14.90-24.fc16.4.i686 ibus-pinyin-db-open-phrase-1.4.0-12.fc16.noarch is a duplicate with ibus-pinyin-db-open-phrase-1.3.99.20110706-2.fc16.noarch openssh-5.8p2-25.fc16.i686 is a duplicate with openssh-5.8p2-24.fc16.i686 4:perl-5.14.2-195.fc16.i686 is a duplicate with 4:perl-5.14.2-193.fc16.i686 1:perl-Module-Pluggable-3.90-195.fc16.noarch is a duplicate with 1:perl-Module-Pluggable-3.90-193.fc16.noarch perl-PathTools-3.33-195.fc16.i686 is a duplicate with perl-PathTools-3.33-193.fc16.i686 1:perl-Pod-Escapes-1.04-195.fc16.noarch is a duplicate with 1:perl-Pod-Escapes-1.04-193.fc16.noarch 1:perl-Pod-Simple-3.16-195.fc16.noarch is a duplicate with 1:perl-Pod-Simple-3.16-193.fc16.noarch perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.23-195.fc16.i686 is a duplicate with perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.23-193.fc16.i686 4:perl-libs-5.14.2-195.fc16.i686 is a duplicate with 4:perl-libs-5.14.2-193.fc16.i686 4:perl-macros-5.14.2-195.fc16.i686 is a duplicate with 4:perl-macros-5.14.2-193.fc16.i686 perl-threads-1.83-195.fc16.i686 is a duplicate with perl-threads-1.83-193.fc16.i686 perl-threads-shared-1.37-195.fc16.i686 is a duplicate with perl-threads-shared-1.37-193.fc16.i686 python-cloudfiles-1.7.9.3-1.fc16.noarch is a duplicate with python-cloudfiles-1.7.9.1-1.fc16.noarch ql2400-firmware-5.06.05-1.fc16.noarch is a duplicate with ql2400-firmware-5.06.02-1.fc16.noarch ql2500-firmware-5.06.05-1.fc16.noarch is a duplicate with ql2500-firmware-5.06.02-1.fc16.noarch setroubleshoot-plugins-3.0.27-1.fc16.noarch is a duplicate with setroubleshoot-plugins-3.0.21-1.fc16.noarch setroubleshoot-server-3.1.3-1.fc16.i686 is a duplicate with setroubleshoot-server-3.1.2-1.fc16.i686 systemtap-runtime-1.7-2.fc16.i686 is a duplicate with systemtap-runtime-1.7-1.fc16.i686 thai-scalable-fonts-common-0.5.0-1.fc16.noarch is a duplicate with thai-scalable-fonts-common-0.4.17-1.fc16.noarch thai-scalable-waree-fonts-0.5.0-1.fc16.noarch is a duplicate with thai-scalable-waree-fonts-0.4.17-1.fc16.noarch Error: check all If I try to reinstall the packages, either collectively or individually, it fails with an error saying package X is needed by package Y (when it's the earlier version of the same package). How can I clean up this mess? Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions... Mark

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What it be..
by Hal 04 Mar '12

04 Mar '12

Greetings... What is the correlation between Fedora Version Numbers and RHEL 5 or RHEL 6 --HMcDuck

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