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usb stick specify as /dev/sdz
by Frank Murphy 01 Oct '13

01 Oct '13

Is it possible to have a usb stick used a specific /dev/sdz based on device label So no matter which usb slot, it's pugged into, gets the same sdz my udev rule. so far: BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="sd*", ATTRS{label}=="foo_or_bar", [...] -- Regards, Frank www.frankly3d.com

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Thunderbird Lightning right click broken
by Jonathan Ryshpan 01 Oct '13

01 Oct '13

When I right click on a date (not an event) in Lightning, many of the options are greyed out (and don't work). Exactly: New Event: Grey/inactive (NOT Normal), Double click works properly New Task: Grey/inactive (NOT Normal) Previous Week: Black/active Next Week: Black/active Cut: Grey/inactive (Normal) Copy: Grey/inactive (Normal) Paste: Grey/inactive, Even after copying an event (NOT normal) Copy appears to work properly; an event copied shows up in KDE's Klipper tool. I am running Fedora-19 with all updates installed using the KDE desktop on 8x6_64 hardware. In particular: KDE 4.11.1 thunderbird-17.0.9-1.fc19.x86_64 thunderbird-lightning-1.9.1-2.fc19.x86_64 Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas for a cure? Thanks - jon

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xspice howto
by Aleksandar Kostadinov 01 Oct '13

01 Oct '13

Hello, could anybody that know put a short howto for using xspice [1] on local machine? For example I want to run xspice as one user and connect to it from my DE so I have a desktop of another user in a window of my current DE. Please CC me in replies. Thank you! http://www.spice-space.org/page/Features/XSpice

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skge net module busted in fedora19 3.11 kernel
by Nate Pearlstein 01 Oct '13

01 Oct '13

Looks like the skge module for some ethernet cards is busted in 3.11 kernel. Had to revert to 3.10 http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg250997.html Hopefully this gets reverted... -- Nate Pearlstein - npearl(a)sgi.com - Product Support Engineer

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HDA jack retasking
by Raman Gupta 01 Oct '13

01 Oct '13

I have Intel HDA Audio on my motherboard (Asus P9X79 PRO). This chipset has the capability to retask jacks for another purpose, for example changing a line out jack to a headphone jack. Has anyone successfully retasked an audio jack (specifically, on my motherboard, the blue Line Out jack) to a headphone? I found a post on pulseaudio-discuss re. this hda-jack-retask program which seems to imply it can be done, but it didn't seem to work (I didn't try every available combination however): http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2011-December/0123… Regards, Raman

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hard disk install repo=hd:.... vs stage2=hd:...
by Jackson Byers 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

If this is a repeat, my apologies; I sent it several days ago and haven't seen it in the "piper" history. If this is a repeat, my apologies; I sent it several days ago and haven't seen it in the "piper" history. I have done hard disk installs using dvd.iso in the past several tilmes: f11,f12, f14, all using something llke title Install Fedora 14 hd0,0 sda1, repo=hd:/dev/sdb1:/root/df14iso root (hd0,0) #sda1 kernel /f14install/vmlinuz-install repo=hd:/dev/sdb1:/root/df14iso initrd /f14install/initrd.img-install I presume the above would still work for f19 with obvious changes using grub2. lately I have attempted using f19 netinst.iso., for which I found following advice menuentry 'Fedora 19 netinst' { linux /vmlinuz-install stage2=hd:/dev/sda9:root/Fedora-19-i386-netinst.iso initrd /initrd.img-install } Note "stage2=' not "repo=" Is "stage2=" intended only for netinst.iso, and "repo=" intended only for dvd,iso ? or, just when can I use "stage2=" just when can I use "repo=" ? I tried the above menuentry 'Fedora 19 netinst' with its "stage2=" and the installer came up but I couldn't manage the installer-- it seemed to insist on using all available space, and I could find no way to change that. and the install failed, with my usb external now forrmatted with 4 more large partitions. These I probably can remove with gparted........ If there is any general advice re using dvd.iso vs netinst.iso it would be greatly appreciated Jack

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Script Help (Bash)
by Frank Murphy 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

Still haven't mastered bash, not even a jack ( Have strung some command(s) together in /etc/cron.daily #!/bin/bash ## Download no-bebug rawhide kernel /usr/bin/cd /var/cache/yum/x86_64/20/fedora-rawhide-kernel-nodebug-source/packages && \ /usr/bin/reposync --source -n =fedora-rawhide-kernel-nodebug kernel && \ ## used to rebuild new no-debug ## Rawhide kernels for non eol FedoraN /usr/local/bin/mock-kernel ---> (which is below question) Question: How do I prevent the above line from happening if nothing new was downloaded? #!/bin/bash ## rebuild no-debug kernel using mock cd /etc/mock && \ /usr/bin/mock -r fedora-20-x86_64 --no-clean /var/cache/yum/x86_64/20/fedora-rawhide-kernel-nodebug-source/packages/*.rpm && \ /usr/bin/createrepo /var/lib/mock/fedora-20-x86_64/result && \ yum check-update && \ /usr/bin/mock -r mock -r fedora-19-x86_64 /var/cache/yum/x86_64/20/fedora-rawhide-kernel-nodebug-source/packages/kernel </snipped F18> -- Regards, Frank www.frankly3d.com

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Blank Screen after login on Fedora 19
by Craig Lanning 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

I have a laptop in a dock with an external monitor. In Fedora 18, I configured it use the external monitor as the primary display and to turn the laptop screen off. The machine in question has the following configuration: HP EliteBook 8560p Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2620M CPU @ 2.70GHz 8GB RAM ATI Radeon 6400M Docking Station with 1920x1080 monitor (connected via DVI) and wired network. Fedora 19 64-bit If I create a new user, I can log into the new user just fine. I see both monitors with the laptop screen being primary. If I change it so that the external monitor is primary and the laptop screen is off, I can reboot and login just fine. After I customize the desktop a bit, when I reboot and login, I get a blank screen with a mouse pointer, but it never goes any further. I've seen comments about changing the display manager to either kdm or lightdm, but neither of those helped. It still behaved the same. I even found a comment about logging in to a text system (no display manager) and using 'startx' to start the desktop. I tried that, but it still behaved the same. Is there some way I can regain control of the user? Is there a way I can reactivate the laptop screen without using the Display applet in the gnome-control-center? Craig

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