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Cant write successfully to USB devices
by Robert Moskowitz 05 Jan '13

05 Jan '13

This is on a Lenovo X120e with current f17 patches. Both to my SD slot and to USB drives very recently, writes to USB drives is not working. It seems to work. I can see the files and open them. Then I unmount the device move it over to another system and that system cannot read the files. For the SD card, I have tried removing the partition, recreating it, and copying the files. It still fails. Interesting, I successfully copied the files only my Galaxy III (New Verizon software makes the III mount as a Win install device, but going to 'Tethering' gets it mounted properly showing all directories) and then mounted both the Galaxy and the SD card on the other system and successfully copied files to the SD card and opened them. The other system is back-leveled on F17. Don't know if this is a software or hardware problem. But it is recent. Only early in the week, I could copy files. How can I troubleshoot this?

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None
by jiwa navid 05 Jan '13

05 Jan '13

i am getting the same "oh no something went wrong.......logout n try again" msg after installing vlc. can any 1 give me solution to this. i really want to get it fixed. @Alexander Volovics <a.volovic at upcmail.nl>

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Gnome-Shell hangs on Activities function
by Philippe LeCavalier 05 Jan '13

05 Jan '13

Hi Everyone. I filed a bug report here https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691189regarding this issue. In a nutshell, after working in gnome-shell for some time using the Activities function hangs gnome-shell. Since this may be 'nouveau' related... lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 0c) 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566MM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03) 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HBM (ICH8M-E) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA IDE Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84M [Quadro NVS 140M] (rev a1) 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61) 15:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ba) 15:00.2 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 21) 15:00.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 11) 15:00.5 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 11) I suspect one key point here is that if I keep things really simple ie. only use terminal and a browser type of thing I will likely not experience this. It seems to only happen when I'm really busy -real convenient ;) Thanks, Phil

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Fedora Game Day
by Michael Cronenworth 05 Jan '13

05 Jan '13

It's been a while (years?) since Fedora folks have gathered to best each other. Would anyone be interested in putting together a Fedora Game Day? Game: 0ad http://play0ad.com/ # yum install 0ad I would be willing to host a server and play a few matches. The game can support up to 8 people. Anytime from 02:00 UTC to 06:00 UTC works best for me. This weekend would be great, or anytime in the next few days. Reply to this message if you can make it in my time range in the next week and I'll put together a solid date. Michael

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Xorg fails
by Gergely Buday 05 Jan '13

05 Jan '13

Hi there, on my Fedora 17 box, abrt keeps complaining about xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.12.4-2.fc17.i686 What I experience is that sometimes I get a console log and the machine freezes, other times adobe reader menu, and just the menu hangs. abrt tells me the following trace: 0: /usr/bin/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x4a) [0x80ac51a] 1: /usr/bin/Xorg (mieqEnqueue+0x22b) [0x81aaa7b] 2: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8047000+0x4593c) [0x808c93c] 3: /usr/bin/Xorg (xf86PostMotionEventM+0x253) [0x80da033] 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so (0xb6878000+0x3e2e) [0xb687be2e] 5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so (0xb6878000+0x5534) [0xb687d534] 6: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8047000+0x82432) [0x80c9432] 7: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8047000+0xa8803) [0x80ef803] 8: (vdso) (__kernel_sigreturn+0x0) [0xb7737400] 9: (vdso) (__kernel_vsyscall+0x10) [0xb7737424] 10: /lib/libc.so.6 (ioctl+0x19) [0x475ca4b9] 11: /lib/libdrm.so.2 (drmIoctl+0x34) [0x49601bc4] 12: /lib/libdrm_intel.so.1 (drm_intel_gem_bo_map_gtt+0x78) [0xb74bad18] 13: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so (0xb74e7000+0x11e8c) [0xb74f8e8c] 14: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so (0xb74e7000+0xf4f85) [0xb75dbf85] 15: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so (0xb74e7000+0xfe379) [0xb75e5379] 16: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so (0xb74e7000+0xff3fd) [0xb75e63fd] 17: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so (0xb74e7000+0xfc0cd) [0xb75e30cd] 18: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8047000+0x10d265) [0x8154265] 19: /usr/bin/Xorg (CompositePicture+0x339) [0x81484f9] 20: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8047000+0x105d0d) [0x814cd0d] 21: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8047000+0x101bdf) [0x8148bdf] 22: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8047000+0x3044d) [0x807744d] 23: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8047000+0x1dce5) [0x8064ce5] 24: /lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x474f7635] 25: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8047000+0x1e029) [0x8065029] I have an Intel video chipset: $ lspci |grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01) I tried to update the above package but no update was available. Xorg log is at http://pastebin.com/yJRFYpm8 My smolt profile is $ cat /tmp/smoltprofile.txt General ================================= UUID: 8d07e20a-6382-4a63-8be5-56333b7042d4 OS: Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) Default run level: Unknown Language: en_US.UTF-8 Platform: i686 BogoMIPS: 5582.13 CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel CPU Model: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz CPU Stepping: 9 CPU Family: 15 CPU Model Num: 2 Number of CPUs: 1 CPU Speed: 2799 System Memory: 867 System Swap: 3999 Vendor: FUJITSU SIEMENS System: SCENIC P / SCENICO P Form factor: Mini Tower Kernel: 3.6.10-2.fc17.i686 SELinux Enabled: 1 SELinux Policy: targeted SELinux Enforce: Permissive MythTV Remote: Unknown MythTV Role: Unknown MythTV Theme: Unknown MythTV Plugin: MythTV Tuner: -1 Devices ================================= (32902:9570:5940:4099) pci, i915, VIDEO, D1521 Mainboard (Fujitsu-Siemens) (32902:9419:5940:4100) pci, ata_piix, STORAGE, D1451 Mainboard (SCENIC N300, i845GV) (32902:9408:0:0) pci, lpc_ich, PCI/ISA, 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (32902:9413:5940:4184) pci, None, MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO, 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (32902:9411:5940:4100) pci, i801_smbus, SERIAL, D1451 Mainboard (SCENIC N300, i845GV) (32902:9294:0:0) pci, None, PCI/PCI, 82801 PCI Bridge (4887:2437:5940:4108) pci, tulip, ETHERNET, Scenic N300 ADMtek AN983 10/100 Mbps PCI Adapter (32902:9412:5940:4100) pci, uhci_hcd, USB, D1451 Mainboard (SCENIC N300, i845GV) (32902:9410:5940:4100) pci, uhci_hcd, USB, D1451 Mainboard (SCENIC N300, i845GV) (32902:9568:5940:4099) pci, agpgart-intel, HOST/PCI, 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (32902:9415:5940:4100) pci, uhci_hcd, USB, D1451 Mainboard (SCENIC N300, i845GV) (32902:9421:5940:4100) pci, ehci_hcd, USB, D1451 Mainboard (SCENIC N300, i845GV) Filesystem Information ================================= device mtpt type bsize frsize blocks bfree bavail file ffree favail ------------------------------------------------------------------- /dev/sda6 / ext4 4096 4096 4828595 3870277 3821228 1228800 1112089 1112089 /dev/sda1 /home ext4 4096 4096 2519771 2271401 2143401 640848 639457 639457 /dev/sda3 /var ext4 4096 4096 755940 530122 491722 192000 183519 183519 /dev/sda5 /tmp ext4 4096 4096 503956 494553 468953 128000 127819 127819 Is this a hardware problem or a problem with the xserver package? - Gergely

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How to facilitate iPhone file transfers in Fedora 17.
by linux guy 05 Jan '13

05 Jan '13

For whatever reason, iPhone 5 devices (and maybe more) are not automatically mounted like they were for me in Fedora 16. After much research, I did the following to mount an iPhone 5 manually. # yum install libimobiledevice # idevicepair unpair&& idevicepair pair dmesg then had something like this in it usb 3-2.4: new high-speed USB device number 85 using xhci_hcd [ 559.894437] usb 3-2.4: New USB device found, idVendor=05ac, idProduct=12a0 [ 559.894456] usb 3-2.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 559.894458] usb 3-2.4: Product: iPhone [ 559.894460] usb 3-2.4: Manufacturer: Apple Inc. [ 559.894461] usb 3-2.4: SerialNumber: a10733b8ceb1656487ee7cdf532caad722243961 [ 559.895236] usb 3-2.4: ep 0x2 - rounding interval to 8 microframes, ep desc says 10 microframes [ 559.895243] usb 3-2.4: ep 0x81 - rounding interval to 8 microframes, ep desc says 10 microframes [ 559.904425] usb 3-2.4: ep 0x2 - rounding interval to 8 microframes, ep desc says 10 microframes [ 559.904442] usb 3-2.4: ep 0x81 - rounding interval to 8 microframes, ep desc says 10 microframes [ 559.904447] usb 3-2.4: ep 0x4 - rounding interval to 32768 microframes, ep desc says 0 microframes [ 559.904449] usb 3-2.4: ep 0x85 - rounding interval to 32768 microframes, ep desc says 0 microframes [ 560.737351] ipheth 3-2.4:4.2: Apple iPhone USB Ethernet device attached [ 560.737398] usbcore: registered new interface driver ipheth [ 560.753345] usb 3-2.4: ep 0x86 - rounding interval to 32768 microframes, ep desc says 0 microframes [ 560.753353] usb 3-2.4: ep 0x5 - rounding interval to 32768 microframes, ep desc says 0 microframes I then mounted the device using ifuse as follows. $ mkdir iphone $ ifuse -ua10733b8ceb1656487ee7cdf532caad722243961 ./iphone $ cd iphone $ ls AirFair Books Downloads iTunes_Control PhotoStreamsData Safari Airlock com.apple.itunes.lock_sync HighlandPark PhotoData Purchases ApplicationArchives DCIM iPod_Control Photos Recordings I could then access the iPhone mountpoint in Dolphin or from the command line session as I desired. I hope this helps someone. I hope this procedure becomes unnecessary in Fedora 18 and iPhone 5s are mounted automatically. References http://engineerwithoutacause.com/rhythmbox-does-not-recognize-iphone-4-ios-… man ifuse

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laptops with 1200 vertical resolution
by Ranjan Maitra 04 Jan '13

04 Jan '13

Hi, I will be in the market for a laptop pretty soon, and would like to find a laptop with 1200 vertical resolution (at the very least). I looked around a couple of websites (Dell, Toshiba, Thinkpad) some but was unable to spot much (did not look at everything). Are these available anymore? What would you recommend? Many thanks, Ranjan -- Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted on receipt. For those needing to send personal or professional e-mail, please use appropriate addresses. ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/earth

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Howto enable IPv6 privacy extensions
by Patrick Lists 04 Jan '13

04 Jan '13

Hi all, On an up-to-date F17 x86_64 box I was testing IPv6 and it was pointed out that the IPv6 address that Fedora uses is traceable because it ends in the MAC address of the nic. I don't like that and want to enable privacy extensions which should replace the MAC address with some random stuff in the IPv6 address. I added the following to /etc/sysctl.d/ipv6_privacy_extensions and rebooted: net.ipv6.conf.default.use_tempaddr = 1 net.ipv6.conf.default.temp_prefered_lft = 7200 Unfortunately this does not work as I don't see an IPv6 address with "scope global dynamic" and if I go to http://ip6.nl then it still shows my IPv6 address with the MAC address in it. Anyone know how to make this work? Thanks, Patrick

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F17: no keyboard response, mouse/trackpad okay, can ssh in
by Joel Rees 04 Jan '13

04 Jan '13

After the problems of the last weekend, starting getting strange stuff where the keyboard would freeze if sat on the screensaver login screen too long. Problem got worse, and after (finally) getting a good (?) yum update, and installing the GIMP, inkscape, libreoffice, and some others, a reboot and no keyboard response at all. Not even switching to a virtual screen. I can ssh in and systemctl isolate multi-user.target and get a console and the keyboard works just fine in the console, so it's an X11 issue. Found an old thread for F17 where reloading the evdev stuff and generating a new config (xorg -configure, I think) fixed a problem with no keyboard/mouse, and I tried reloading xorg-x11-drv-evdev and runing xorg -configure and got a segfault or something similar and no new configuration file. (No xorg.conf to start with, FWIW.) Haven't find any relavent error messages in /var/log so far. Any ideas what's going on here? -- Joel Rees

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Reconfiguring packages
by Frank McCormick 03 Jan '13

03 Jan '13

Having come from Debian unstable, the switch to YUM from Aptitude is a bit disconcerting for me. So far I have managed but i have a question. In Debian, a package can be reconfigured (package such as console-setup) using dpkg-reconfigure. Can the same thing be accomplished in Fedora. I have 2 Fedora installations, 17 and 18. Thanks -- --Cheers--

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