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F18: configure amanda-client for IPv4
by Craig Goodyear 19 Jan '13

19 Jan '13

Since amanda has dropped using xinet with the release of Fedora 18, how does one configure the amanda client to use IPv4 ? Craig

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Install FC18 on laptop? Wifi woes
by Bill Davidsen 19 Jan '13

19 Jan '13

I'm trying to update a laptop to FC18, but that does not seem to be an option, because the Broadcom WiFi is still not supported. It seems that the obvious solutions are not practical, since both the Live-CD and Install kernels use kernels for which rpmfusion has no driver software due to their age. I suppose I could grab another laptop, connect to the net, set up routing, connect the laptops by cable, but that's a real hack. I could also install MINT, since their religious beliefs do not prohibit using freely provided vendor drivers, but I really prefer Fedora. I could provide a USB WiFi adapter which is recognized, only none of the three I have is detected by the kernels provided, even though they all worked on the FC16 gen laptops I was using a year ago or so. I could build my own kernel, but I have never mastered the secure boot sign your own UEFI, and I could run FC18 under KVM, but that doesn't provide the newer security features, just the newer apps, which is not the issue. Suggestions? -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot

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System Hang on Update...
by Ed Greshko 19 Jan '13

19 Jan '13

Not sure if this is was a quirk or if others will encounter a problem. This is an F18-64 system and today I just did a "yum update". The following packages were being updated.... Jan 19 17:20:00 Updated: perl-Git-1.8.1-1.fc18.noarch Jan 19 17:20:03 Updated: git-1.8.1-1.fc18.x86_64 Jan 19 17:20:04 Updated: 2:nmap-ncat-6.01-9.fc18.x86_64 Jan 19 17:20:05 Updated: brltty-4.3-12.fc18.x86_64 Jan 19 17:20:07 Updated: brlapi-0.5.6-12.fc18.x86_64 Jan 19 17:20:10 Updated: firewalld-0.2.12-1.fc18.noarch Jan 19 17:20:10 Updated: firewall-config-0.2.12-1.fc18.noarch Jan 19 17:20:11 Updated: python-brlapi-0.5.6-12.fc18.x86_64 Jan 19 17:20:12 Updated: 2:nmap-6.01-9.fc18.x86_64 Jan 19 17:20:13 Updated: lsof-4.87-1.fc18.x86_64 Jan 19 17:20:14 Updated: apper-0.8.0-2.fc18.x86_64 Jan 19 17:20:15 Updated: libcdr-0.0.9-2.fc18.x86_64 When the system got to the "cleanup" phase the last line printed was that it was cleaning up firewalld. The system then hung totally. No cursor movement and system unreachable via ssh. No disk activity.l On reboot I was left with rpmdb errors showing multiple versions of nmap-ncat, brltty, firewalld, lsof, firewall-config, libcdr and apper installed. Fixed that and all is well. This is the only time I can recall my system getting totally hung while doing an update. -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. -- Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled

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texlive in F18: \usepackage{pslatex} -> kpathsea: Running mktexmf ptmr7t - I can't find file `ptmr7t'
by Frédéric Bron 19 Jan '13

19 Jan '13

pslatex seems to come corrupted in F18. This simple document does not compile: \documentclass{article} %\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{pslatex} \begin{document} abcde \end{document} kpathsea: Running mktexmf ptmr7t ! I can't find file `ptmr7t'. <*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ptmr7t Please type another input file name ! Emergency stop. <*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ptmr7t I have submitted a bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=901394 Does anyone know a work around? It seems that texlive packages have changed from F17 to F18. Frédéric

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Disable Java plugin universally (but keep javaws)
by Ian Pilcher 19 Jan '13

19 Jan '13

Is there any way to "universally" disable the Java plugin without removing icedtea-web (which also includes Java Web Start)? (Deleting the plugin file is not an answer; it will get rewritten the first time the package is updated.) -- ======================================================================== Ian Pilcher arequipeno(a)gmail.com Sometimes there's nothing left to do but crash and burn...or die trying. ========================================================================

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fedup major fail
by Sam Varshavchik 19 Jan '13

19 Jan '13

Burned my F18 image. Booted the DVD once, to run mediacheck. It's fine. Ran fedup --device /dev/sr0 --debuglog fedupdebug.log It ran for a while. Completed without errors. Rebooted, selected "System upgrade" option from grub. The Fedora logo started blinking. The disk activity light blinked happily for no more than five seconds, certainly less than it would take to fully install all the updates, before the laptop suddenly reboots without any error messages. The "System upgrade" option is gone from the Grub menu. I boot back into Fedora 17, apparently unchanged, and unharmed. I guess it won't be possible for me to upgrade to F18.

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set primary monitor during install
by Andras Simon 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

I'm trying to install F18 on a netbook with a small screen where most of the installer's screens don't fit. To get around this problem, I attached an external monitor - but now the installer thinks that's a second monitor, so I still can't access critical parts of some of the installation screens. Is there a way to specify the external monitor as the primary one? Or to just use the external one? Andras

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hang on reboot
by Tom Horsley 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

When I just tried to reboot fedora 18, it printed about 3 lines on the console, then sat there forever. I typed Ctrl-Alt-Delete and it printed a new line about the alsa save soundcard service not working. I could type it in again and get the same message again. After about 5 minues of this, it finally got out of the save soundcard nonsense and finished shutting down.

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F18: Personal file sharing
by Antonio M 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

I updated my computers from F17 to F18: I had personal file sharing activated on both machines and I could exchange see shared folders, now in F18 I cannot see shared folders (not even listed in Nautilus/Network window). Any help?? -- Antonio M Skype: amontag52 Linux Fedora F18(Spherical Cow) on Acer 5720 http://lugsaronno.altervista.org http://www.campingmonterosa.com

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Fedora 18 - Howto not install on LVM.
by Johan Scheepers 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

Good day, Installed fedora 18 twice on different usb drives. First gave fedora a free hand on an empty partition. Got boot and LVM in that partition with my other partitions untouched. After some google..maybe a solution. Tried on another drive. Manual partition on the installer. Created the empty partition to be only "/". After install the partition is LVM. I really would like that the partition should be a large "/". I do not know anything about LVM and would like it to stay that way. Thanks JohanS

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