using mirrors in Fedora 14
by Rod McCown
Anyone know if there are bugs or whatever in Fed 14 trying to mirror
drives? I've tried 3 different drives now, so I believe that rules out
bad hardware. It will mirror initially, but after an hour to 4 or 5
hours one of the drives drops out as faulty. Probably going to see if
this old junk will upgrade to 15 soon. Thanks
--
Rod McCown
Unix System Administrator
Fishermen Chapter
Christian Motorcyclist Association
"Unix is user friendly. It just picks its friends"
12 years
Faxing via LibreOffice Writer to Hylafax not working
by Patrick Lists
Hi,
I am trying to fax from LibreOffice Writer to a Hylafax fax server. Here
is what I did:
1) install the client portion of Hylafax (I used Hylafax+ 5.5.1).
2) run faxsetup to configure the client's fax portion
# faxsetup -client -verbose
3) as root run spadmin:
# /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/spadmin
4) add a fax printer with the following command
/usr/bin/sendfax -D -f me(a)puzzled.xs4all.nl -h 10.1.2.3 -n -s a4 \
-d (PHONE) (TMP)
5) open LibreOffice Writer, create test doc
6) add Fax icon to toolbar via Customize Toolbar -> Add -> Documents ->
Send Default Fax (at the end)
7) click on Fax and...
Nothing happens while I should get a dialog asking for the fax number
(this used to work in the F14 days with OpenOffice.org). When I start
Writer from the command line I see this error in the terminal:
sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
sh: -c: line 0: `/usr/bin/sendfax -D -f me(a)puzzled.xs4all.nl -h 10.1.2.3
-n -m -s a4 -d (PHONE) (TMP) 2>/dev/null'
Now here's something weird. If I select File -> Printer Settings -> Fax
printer -> Properties -> Device -> Printer Language Type and select
"Postscript (Level from driver)", click OK and OK and then select File
-> Print I actually get the dialog asking for the Fax number.
Anyone have an idea how I can make the Fax icon in the toolbar work too?
Thanks for any advice.
Regards,
Patrick
12 years
OT: Getting local IP addresses from a gateway
by Jonathan Ryshpan
I need to get the IP numbers of local hosts, i.e. hosts inside my
gateway's firewall. The domain name server in the gateway provides the
IP addresses of hosts and sites on the internet, but does not provide
the IP addresses for hosts on my local net. The gateway is aware of
their names and addresses; one of its admin screens shows them, exactly
as they identify themselves. A chat session with customer support (an
extract follows) indicates that this function is definitely not
available. The problem is not disastrous, since the addresses, once
assigned, are pretty much static, and so can be put into /etc/hosts.
However this looks a little like a hack.
Has anyone else dealt with this problem? Know a way around it? Do
gateways from other manufacturers have similar problems?
On the one hand, I'm pleased to get a straight answer, even though bad
news, from Belkin. On the other I'm amused that after telling me that
this particular function of the router is totally broken, the tech rep
thanks me for choosing Belkin.
Router is Belkin F7D5301 v1 (01)
System is Fedora-16 on x86_64 hardware
============ Chat Session (edited) Follows ============
...
jonrysh: ... This router (and all your other routers) will not return
the IP address belonging to a host that it knows about in reply to any
kind of query from a host (except the admin interface). Is this correct?
Belkin: thats correct
jonrysh: Thanks very much. We are complete. Bye
Belkin: Thank you for choosing Belkin technical support have a nice day
12 years
Help with formatting position on page of printer output
by don fisher
I am running f16 with an HP-7680 printer. When I print text, the top of
the page is cut off. More of the top is cut off on the reverse side in
Duplex mode. I looked at the standard system-config-printers and could
not find anything that would specify position from the top. I also
looked an the f16 Administrators guide, but it referred to the same command.
It has been about 10 years, but I seem to recall that you could do this
in a printcap file.
Please tell me the modern way to set this up.
Don
12 years
Installing packages from earlier versions
by Christopher Svanefalk
Dear all,
I recently upgraded to F17 Beta and things are looking good so far.
However, one of the major problems I am having so far is that F17 ships
with Eclipse 4.2. This is great in itself, but the Scala plugin, which I
cannot work without, currently does not support 4.2 and most likely wont do
so for another few months.
Is there any way to install the F16 Eclipse on F17? It would be a great
temporary workaround. Thanks in advance for any help!
--
Best,
Christopher Svanefalk
12 years
Fwd: Fedora 16 (x86_64) install fails with checksum error
by Robert Hedman
Sorry if this is a duplicate. Haveing email problems and have not
gotten a confirmation of reciept.
Thanks
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Subject: Fedora 16 (x86_64) install fails with checksum error
Date: Saturday 21 April 2012 5:38 pm
From: Robert Hedman <rhedman1(a)charter.net>
To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
I have been trying to install Fedora 16 ( x86_64) from a DVD. The install
works if only the DVD is used, however there is a problem with updating from
KDE. When I add the UPDATE repository to the install source list, the
install fails. I get the following message just after all the packages have
been installed:
There was an error running your transaction for the following reason:
Rpmdb checksum is invalid: dCDPT(pkg checksums):
konq-plugins.x86_64 0:4.6.1-1.fc15 - u.
I get the same answer on 2 different machines after several (>6) tries.
This problem started within the last couple days. The last time a similar
install work successfully was 4/18. It failed on 4/19, 4/20, and 4/21
Bob Hedman
-------------------------------------------------------
12 years
Mutter rendering issue
by Christopher Svanefalk
I am running F16 (Gnome3) on a desktop with an Nvidia GTX-285 GPU (Nouveau)
and AMD FX-8120 CPU. Whenever I use the "expose" function in Gnome Shell
(do not know the precise name, but it is what you get when you either press
the meta key or move the pointer to the top left cornet), rendering is
obviously laggy and teary. I find this strange, and was wondering if there
is some way to tune up the rendering rate for mutter? This used to be
possible in Compiz under Gnome 2 back in the day...it would be helpful to
try and get the visual style set up to a satisfactory level.
--
Best,
Christopher Svanefalk
12 years
help installing f16
by Mike Wright
Hi all,
I downloaded the f16 install DVD (6.5 hours) and have been trying to
install it to an lvm partition that is part of a Xen box. Two days
later I'm asking for help.
Hope this doesn't sound like a rant but I'm very frustrated. This is a
description of what I've been going through with a request for help at
the very basic level of "Set Up your Drives".
I can't use livecd to install because that method won't install into a
virtual environment and shutting down every other vm just so I can boot
"bare metal" takes down my entire operation: no dns, no mail, no web, no
firewall, no databases. Nulla. Nada. Squatalucci. Out of business
while a livecd install takes place. I'm not the only user here. That
means I take down every other business, too.
Wow! Talk about regression. I feel like I'm in the way-back machine or
in need of invoking the "Help me, Mr. Wizard" invocation what with the
ansi language and keyboard selectors. Haven't seen those in many, many
years, maybe a decade. Then there is the disk setup. Makes that good
old p.o.s. called disk-druid look useful.
Totally screwed up the disk. Replaced a functional msdos partitioning
scheme with GUID partitioning that creates a header at the very end of
the disk which renders fdisk useless and requires kpartx or parted to be
used instead.
Problem is that kpartx is also a p.o.s. and parted is half brain dead.
e.g. parted requires start and end parameters for a partition but does
not provide any info about the disk's layout. Had to use the now
deprecated fdisk to find that info. Had to use dd to fill 10G with
dev/zero to destroy the GPT but the new disk manager still managed to
find a non-existent partition table which meant there was no free space
on the empty drive.
OK, finally made it to the disk setup where the 2 drives, 10g and 1g,
are detected and automatically placed into the right side box and the
arrows for moving them left are greyed out and unusable. Fine. 10g is
the drive selected for the bootloader. Press <Next>.
<this is where I'm asking for help>
Created 10g mount point / ext4 and 1g swap. Press <Next>.
"Partitioning Errors. You have not created a bootloader stage 1 target
device". Just peachy. What does it want? Where is that done? Tried
adding a /boot partition that will never be used but that, too, proved
pointless.
Has anybody succeeded in installing from "install media" as opposed to
"livecd media"?
Pointers? Hand holding? Advice? etc. (just don't rick roll me).
Thanks,
Mike Wright
p.s. Brushing up on my cuneiform in anticipation of f22. Practicing
starting fires by smashing rocks together in anticipation of f30. LOL
12 years
yum.log force daily rotate
by Frank Murphy
yum.log force daily rotate
Has to survive future upgrade to F17,
--
Regards,
Frank
"Jack of all, fubars"
12 years
