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F18, i915 problem about resolution; only 1024.
by Zandre Bran 03 Jan '13

03 Jan '13

Hi Community, sorry my english, brazillian guy. Please howto change config my video for intel i915 in F18? Display only 1024. Tested i915.modeset=0 acpi=off nomodeset but don't work. More details here http://paste.stg.fedoraproject.org/2852 Any help? Thanks for your time, Zandre.

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On the trail of the stopped rsyslog.
by Frank Murphy 03 Jan '13

03 Jan '13

On 2\3 boxes, (F17) rkhunter will tell me Start Rootkit Hunter Scan ---------------------- Warning: The syslog daemon is not running. Going by: http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/troubleshoot.html (needing it to be on longer to find a cause) Tried to create a debug.log from the service file: [Service] EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/rsyslog ExecStart=/sbin/rsyslogd -n $SYSLOGD_OPTIONS -dn > /var/log/rsyslog.log Sockets=syslog.socket StandardOutput=null I'm getting a failed on systemctl status rsyslog.service Process: 24737 ExecStart=/sbin/rsyslogd -n $SYSLOGD_OPTIONS -dn > /var/log/rsyslog.debug (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) -- Regards, Frank Life's importand Questions! "Why Snowhite never advertised for 7up"

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sound card configuration
by Gergely Buday 03 Jan '13

03 Jan '13

Hi, I cannot configure my sound card well. I have the following hardware: [ 0.000000] DMI: FUJITSU SIEMENS SCENIC P / SCENICO P/D1740, BIOS 5.00 R1.00.1740 01/19/2004 and this audio card: 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01) If I play a youtube video, then some software shows that there is sound output, but my speakers do not emit anything. I checked my speakers and they do work otherwise. My ALSA output is below. How can I fix this problem? - Gergely $ cat /tmp/alsa-info.txt.0jOUPxTTpD upload=true&script=true&cardinfo= !!################################ !!ALSA Information Script v 0.4.60 !!################################ !!Script ran on: Wed Jan 2 20:49:10 UTC 2013 !!Linux Distribution !!------------------ Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) NAME=Fedora ID=fedora PRETTY_NAME="Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle)" CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17" Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) !!DMI Information !!--------------- Manufacturer: FUJITSU SIEMENS Product Name: SCENIC P / SCENICO P Product Version: !!Kernel Information !!------------------ Kernel release: 3.3.4-5.fc17.i686 Operating System: GNU/Linux Architecture: i686 Processor: i686 SMP Enabled: Yes !!ALSA Version !!------------ Driver version: 1.0.24 Library version: Utilities version: 1.0.26 !!Loaded ALSA modules !!------------------- !!Sound Servers on this system !!---------------------------- Pulseaudio: Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) Running - Yes Jack: Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/jackd) Running - No !!Soundcards recognised by ALSA !!----------------------------- --- no soundcards --- !!PCI Soundcards installed in the system !!-------------------------------------- 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01) !!Advanced information - PCI Vendor/Device/Subsystem ID's !!-------------------------------------------------------- 00:1f.5 0401: 8086:24c5 (rev 01) Subsystem: 1734:1058 !!Loaded sound module options !!-------------------------- !!ALSA Device nodes !!----------------- crw-rw----. 1 root audio 116, 1 Jan 2 15:21 /dev/snd/seq crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 33 Jan 2 15:21 /dev/snd/timer !!ALSA configuration files !!------------------------ !!System wide config file (/etc/asound.conf) # # Place your global alsa-lib configuration here... # !!Aplay/Arecord output !!------------ APLAY aplay: device_list:256: no soundcards found... ARECORD arecord: device_list:256: no soundcards found... !!Amixer output !!------------- !!Alsactl output !!------------- --startcollapse-- --endcollapse-- !!All Loaded Modules !!------------------ Module vfat fat usb_storage ip6table_filter ip6_tables nls_utf8 fuse binfmt_misc bnep bluetooth rfkill ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_state nf_conntrack ppdev snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_pcm snd_page_alloc microcode snd_timer snd soundcore iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support serio_raw i2c_i801 tulip parport_pc parport uinput i915 video i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper drm i2c_core !!ALSA/HDA dmesg !!------------------ [ 10.390491] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver [ 10.538573] ALSA sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:2098 AC'97 0 access is not valid [0xffffffff], removing mixer. [ 10.538584] ALSA sound/pci/intel8x0.c:2273 Unable to initialize codec #0 [ 10.538646] snd_intel8x0: probe of 0000:00:1f.5 failed with error -5

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Alacarte problem -
by Bob Goodwin 02 Jan '13

02 Jan '13

I yum installed "alacarte" in this F-17/64 computer, the install apparently worked but it does not run, produces the following errors: [bobg@Box7 ~]$ alacarte Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 36, in <module> main() File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 33, in main app.run() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 64, in run self.loadMenus() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 203, in loadMenus self.on_menu_tree_cursor_changed(menu_tree) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 354, in on_menu_tree_cursor_changed self.loadItems(self.menu_store[menu_path][2], menu_path) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 217, in loadItems for item, show in self.editor.getItems(menu): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 145, in getItems item = item_iter.get_separator() AttributeError: 'TreeIter' object has no attribute 'get_separator' This is an updated Fedora 17 install. Can anyone tell me what to do? Bob -- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box7

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Re: Boot with 1.44" Floppy, then net install from thumb drive?
by M de Luis 02 Jan '13

02 Jan '13

Hello Michael. Thanks for your very welcome message and assistance. Yep, it looks as though the only USB hardware that my bios understands during setup or boot is the USB floppy drive that came with the laptop. The bios' USB legacy setting does affect the ability to boot as you have correctly indicated, but only for the recognized floppy drive. I tried connecting other USB devices such as cameras and memory card readers, but nothing seems to interest the bios except the floppy drive. That being the case, then I'm not all that confident that booting from an external USB CD drive would achieve success. Happily there may be a simpler solution. I had a quick look at the PXE server idea that you proposed too, Michael. This is a new concept for me, and I'll come back to it for a better appreciation when I get a quiet moment. I think it could be installed on an old FC10 system that I haven't run much for a while now, though I came to a point where the setup complexity began to look excessive, especially when contrast against temporarily shifting the laptop hard drive to a USB bootable machine for the installation, then hoping it remains operational when transferred back to the laptop. Well, both plans have their drawbacks, though I think a more satisfactory work-around may exist. When I copied the Net installation iso of Fedora to my USB flash drive using the Fedora LiveUSB creator, I noticed that the pre-existing FAT32 filesystem on the thumb drive had been unaltered, and that DOS readable files for the live image and Network installation had been added in 4-new directories. Presumably some sort of boot loader, that is able to read the FAT32 filesystem files, was added to the boot sector region of the flash drive. As soon as I am able to recreate this mystery boot loader's installation process for a FAT32 formatted IDE drive, then the problem is licked. It's no effort to boot the laptop from a Windows98 rescue disk using the floppy drive, create a temporarily bootable DOS partition for the Net installation files, and then given the bios' legacy USB support will allow, merely copy the appropriate installation directories and files from the thumb drive to the hard disk. Install the boot loader, and away you go. Okay, so who can tell me which bootloader is written into a thumb drive's boot sector, when the Fedora LiveUSB Creator tool prepares a USB flash drive using one of the installation iso images? Very long winded, sorry. Thanks for the read, and for any contributions toward consideration and resolution of the matter. T. From: Michael D. Setzer II <mikes(a)kuentos.guam.net> To: M de Luis <gimme_the_giffs(a)yahoo.com> Sent: Wednesday, 2 January 2013 1:30 PM Subject: Re: Boot with 1.44" Floppy, then net install from thumb drive? A couple of questions. Are you 100% that it will not boot from a flash? Many bios require that a flash has to be plugged in to the system to actually select it as a boot device. Second, you may have to set an option for legacy USB as well. On another issue, it might be worth seeing if you could get an USB external CDROM and perhaps have it boot from that. Don't think a floppy would be able to load any linux kernel. You might be able to get a boot loader link syslinux or grub4dos, but don't know what it would require to then pass control to a usb. If it has network boot, you could setup a PXE server, but that seems to be a lot of setup and requirements. Would suggest looking into the bios options and usb cdrom. On 1 Jan 2013 at 19:48, M de Luis wrote: Date sent: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 19:48:15 -0800 (PST) From: M de Luis <gimme_the_giffs(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Boot with 1.44" Floppy, then net install from thumb drive? To: "users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org" <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> Send reply to: M de Luis <gimme_the_giffs(a)yahoo.com>, Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> <mailto:users-request@lists.fedoraproject.org?subject=unsubscribe> <mailto:users-request@lists.fedoraproject.org?subject=subscribe> > My old NEC Versa P440 laptop computer has no working CD drive, and > can't boot off a USB thumb drive. It does have a USB connected 1.44" > floppy drive that came with a rescue disk, so I believe that it may be > able to boot off that. Okay then, how do I make a 1.44" Linux boot > disk (boot/ root pair?) with enough USB capability to let me mount a > USB thumb drive, one loaded with a Net based Fedora installation iso? > Bit confused about how I might invoke the USB stick's Network based > installation then, should I actually manage to get a boot a > basic system up from floppies? Please, just vague ideas are all > that's really required. If there are any relevant links with > which I could be very gratefully provisioned, then I'm sure to > realize a solution, provided that one may be possible in this case. > T. :-) +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. 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yum in the tarpits (was Re: blacklisting domains for yum?)
by Joel Rees 02 Jan '13

02 Jan '13

Well, Ed. I guess I have to look closer to home for my problems with yum. yum update, and the fedora/primary_db part goes just fine, maxes my connection. Then updates/primary_db bogs down to averaging a kilobyte per second. The mirror for both is riken this time, here in Japan, FWIW. Should unblock the .cn domain to see if I can find out more. HTTP access has no problems, even while yum is bogged down. Do we have problems in the mirrors, or has my database for updates/primary_db gone wonky? Clean all doesn't help. On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Joel Rees <joel.rees(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko(a)greshko.com> wrote: >> On 01/02/2013 08:19 AM, Joel Rees wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote: >>>> Allegedly, on or about 29 December 2012, Joel Rees sent: >>>>> I'm beginning to think the ISP has throttled me for yum. >>>> Could just be the time of the year, with more traffic than usual. >>> Definitely a possibility, particularly considering the timing. New >>> Year's morning here was impossible. >>> >>> But not for the whole net. >>> >>> Read in the newspapers there were some attacks in progress in the >>> Chinese segment around that time, so that might have also been part of >>> it. >> >> I live in Taiwan and work with folks in China. No problems for me to connect and transfer files. Also, my wife watches streaming video from China and she has had no problems during the times you were citing. I avoided making any comments at that time since this lists isn't a forum for political or country bashing. Even though they may not comment on this list, please note that folks in countries being bashed do read this list and some of them may take offense. >> > > Thanks for the different point of view. > > I should have been specific about the attacks being "cyber attacks" or > "internet attacks", but I didn't read the articles, just the > headlines, so, who knows? > > Mea culpa. I'll look for the articles in the old newspaper pile if > you're interested in what was being said. > > BTW, did you try pulling down updates on the 29th to 31st after about 11:00 pm? > > All I know for sure is that yum on my netbook kept getting hung up > trying to read repositories on Chinese mirrors, so I installed > fastestmirror and blocked .cn domains, and that seemed to help. > > It's the only box I have that runs Fedora right now. > > apt-get on my Debian systems had no issues, neither was there any > particular problem getting to websites. Different set of mirrors. The > Fedora mirrors in China that seemed to hang me up were all university > mirrors. Possibilities that crossed my mind was that students were > celebrating on the 'net or that the government's filters were hard at > work against the universities. Saw the headlines the next day and > assumed there had been DOS and other attacks going on. > > -- > Joel Rees -- -- Joel Rees

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blacklisting domains for yum?
by Joel Rees 02 Jan '13

02 Jan '13

Looking in the man pages (man-db itself not in the minimal install? Wow! It's only 1.7M and not having it continually catches someone off-guard. I'm sure I'm not going to remember this next time I do a minimal install.) for yum, not finding a way to black-list domains. What I'm trying to do, the chinese servers get read early in the rotation, and they were dogs last night. 1KB/s and slowing down. Not sure if it's the censoring they are shooting themselves in the foot with or the line between here and there or overloading on a Friday night (Porn on the back channels? highly probable in totalitarian and near-totalitarian countries.) or what. Don't care. I don't trust any server in China right now, and I have reason not to right now, other than simple prejudice. (Such as baidu ignoring my no robots directives.) So I want to block yum from going to any domain in .cn . Is there an easy way to do it, either in yum.conf or in yum.repos.d/* , short of disabling the metalinks and grabbing the list of mirrors from the mirrors page and deleting the Chinese servers? (Or setting my own mirrors list up and refreshing it periodically from mirrors.fedoraproject.org, deleting the Chinese servers as I refresh them. That would be a lot of work, too.) -- Joel Rees

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libsepol.policydb_write: Warning! policy version 19 cannot support permissive types, but some were defined
by carachi diego 02 Jan '13

02 Jan '13

Hi I'm trying to compile the Kernel for Fedora 17 64bit after some little personalization. I compiled and installed it , but now when the system start, it gives me this error: libsepol.policydb_write: Warning! policy version 19 cannot support permissive types, but some were defined libsepol.policydb_write: Discarding filename type transition rules libsepol.policydb_write: Warning! policy version 19 cannot support permissive types, but some were defined libsepol.policydb_write: Discarding filename type transition rules I searched on internet something to solve this problem but I didn't found anything. Can you help me? Thank you a lot bye -- http://www.2dd.it

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Boot with 1.44" Floppy, then net install from thumb drive?
by M de Luis 01 Jan '13

01 Jan '13

My old NEC Versa P440 laptop computer has no working CD drive, and can't boot off a USB thumb drive. It does have a USB connected 1.44" floppy drive that came with a rescue disk, so I believe that it may be able to boot off that. Okay then, how do I make a 1.44" Linux boot disk (boot/ root pair?) with enough USB capability to let me mount a USB thumb drive, one loaded with a Net based Fedora installation iso? Bit confused about how I might invoke the USB stick's Network based installation then, should I actually manage to get a boot a basic system up from floppies? Please, just vague ideas are all that's really required. If there are any relevant links with which I could be very gratefully provisioned, then I'm sure to realize a solution, provided that one may be possible in this case. T. :-)

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yum group for the security spin?
by Joel Rees 01 Jan '13

01 Jan '13

Is/are there any sort of yum group(s) that would aid in building an OS install that includes the security lab stuff? (Tried yum groupinfo "Security Lab" and got no carrot. Somehow I found the menu package, but that doesn't automatically populate the menu with installed packages.) -- Joel Rees

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