Reliable way to determine native packaging system
by Theodore Papadopoulo
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I'm trying to find a standard way of finding the native packaging
system of a linux distribution. I'm not sure at all that testing the
presence of {rpm/yum}|{apt-get} is reliable as for example I can
install apt-get of my fedora computer.
So the question is, is there a simple test that can reliably determine
whether a linux machine is rpm or debian based for its native package
scheme ?
Thank's in advance,
Theo.
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11 years, 1 month
RE: "Hacker" vs "Cracker" et al.
by McCrina, Nathan
________________________________________
From: users-bounces(a)lists.fedoraproject.org [users-bounces(a)lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Richard Vickery [richard.vickeryrv(a)gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 4:30 PM
To: Community support for Fedora users
Subject: Re: Has my fedora 18 installation been hacked?
On Mar 15, 2013 9:39 AM, "Greg Woods" <woods(a)ucar.edu<mailto:woods@ucar.edu>> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 08:25 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote:
>> >
>> > It is not really my intent to be rude, but each of us "hack" out own
>> > systems and the kernel all the time.
>>
>> Unfortunately, this battle over the word "hack" and "hacker" has already
>> been fought and lost. The media, and just about everyone other than
>> hard-core geeks, uses the word "hack" to mean breaking into systems.
>Not in my circles; I refuse to let people alternate the term.
>> Heck, that's why we co-opted the word "geek", which not that long ago
>> was a very insulting term, and is now used as a term for people worthy
>> of respect, similar to how "hacker" was used in the old days.
>>
>> I suppose it is confusing that the meanings of these words have changed,
>> but unfortunately the real meaning of a word is going to be defined by
>> how it is most commonly used.
>So change it!!! Don't let them beat you into the ground; correct them!
IMO, "hack" has sort of a violent sound to it, which makes me feel it is more appropriate for a forceful entry type of context, and I am not surprised that most people assume that this is what it should mean. Furthermore. where I am from "cracker" is a more or less insulting racial term so it just leads to awkwardness when I try to loftily throw it into a conversation. I do know the history of the term "hacker" but I have zero problems with the way it is used in the media.
*** Please note Gordon State College has changed all email addresses ending in @gdn.edu to @gordonstate.edu ***
11 years, 1 month
Preventing a removable disk of being mounted by udisk (Fedora18)
by Jean Francois Martinez
Hello
I have a removable disk I use with BackupPc. Problem is under Fedora 18
it is managed by udisk and udisk mounts it automatically
under /run/media/${USER} with permissions who don't allow
any other user than me to reach under the mount point.
Unfortunately thus behavior is hard-wired in the code (a bug IMHO)
so I want to remove this disk from udisk management. Unfortunately
I see nowhere something looking like a configuration file.
Any ideas?
Jean François Martinez
11 years, 1 month
Unable to boot live cd in both safe and regular graphics mode Fedora 18
by Kevin Daly
When I boot the live-usb stick x starts, but the login dialog does not come
up.. I just get the default blue background screen.
I have tested this usb-stick with other computers so it is working fine.
This is a Intel Atom based system witg integrated graphics.
lspci output
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx
DMI Bridge (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor
D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor
D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition
Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 1
(rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 2
(rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 4
(rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI
Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI
Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI
Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI
Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB2 EHCI
Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller
[AHCI mode] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02)
02:00.0 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller
(rev 80)
02:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host
Controller (rev 80)
02:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. MS Host Controller (rev
80)
02:00.5 Ethernet controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMC250 PCI Express
Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03)
03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE
802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01)
cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 28
model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D525 @ 1.80GHz
stepping : 10
microcode : 0x107
cpu MHz : 1800.000
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 4
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat
pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm
constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl aperfmperf pni dtes64
monitor ds_cpl tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm movbe lahf_lm dtherm
bogomips : 3590.73
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 28
model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D525 @ 1.80GHz
stepping : 10
microcode : 0x107
cpu MHz : 1800.000
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 4
core id : 1
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 2
initial apicid : 2
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat
pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm
constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts nopl aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor
ds_cpl tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm movbe lahf_lm dtherm
bogomips : 3590.73
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
processor : 2
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 28
model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D525 @ 1.80GHz
stepping : 10
microcode : 0x107
cpu MHz : 1800.000
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 4
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 1
initial apicid : 1
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat
pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm
constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts nopl aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor
ds_cpl tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm movbe lahf_lm dtherm
bogomips : 3590.73
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
processor : 3
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 28
model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D525 @ 1.80GHz
stepping : 10
microcode : 0x107
cpu MHz : 1800.000
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 4
core id : 1
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 3
initial apicid : 3
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat
pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm
constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts nopl aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor
ds_cpl tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm movbe lahf_lm dtherm
bogomips : 3590.73
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
============================
Kevin Daly
(416) 953-8330
11 years, 1 month
Settings.....
by EGO-II.1
I seem to recall someone posting the procedure to "restoring" the
Options for setting a desktop background (Center-Scale-Zoom-Tiles-etc) I
have a friend who's Dell Inspirion laptop was on its last legs, so I
assisted them in installing F18, but the feature for handling the
desktop background is gone...(missing? kidnapped?) Can anyone help with
what needs to be done in order to get it back?
Thanks To All
EGO II
11 years, 1 month
Screen flashing when dpms tries to turn off the screen
by Richard Shaw
Ok, Fedora 18 actually installed quite smoothly on my wife's new Acer
V3-551 w/ ATI 7640G graphics after fighting to turn off safeboot for
about 3 hours.
One major oddity though is when the system attempts to turn off the
screen for power saving, in the console it actually flashes black and
some sort of patterned grey. When in X the screen does go blank but
the back-lighting just flashes on and off.
Google failed me here but I may not have figured out the right keywords.
Anyone else seen this?
Thanks,
Richard
11 years, 1 month
Gnome 3 in fallback mode for no apparent reason
by Sanne Grinovero
Hi all,
this morning when turning on my workstation (Fedora 18, 64 bit) it
started Gnome 3 in fallback mode.
I had shut it down the evening before while running in "full" mode and
not made any change to the system: nor (known) configuration changes
nor updates installed.
Since that's pretty much unusable, I switched to my laptop to get some
work done: also Fedora 18, 64 bit, also usually running Gnome3 in full
UI. It also booted in fallback mode!?
In both systems, which where both running fine the previous day, I
can't get it to run in enhanced mode anymore.
I tried:
- rebooting
- reverting last updates using yum history (even though I'm pretty
sure these where older than the symptoms)
- creating and logging in with a newly created user
In both cases I can't get it to run in full mode anymore; any advice?
where can I find logs for a possible reason?
The only common element I see in the two systems is that both have an
NVidia video card and I'm forced to use the proprietary drivers
because of other issues,
but this worked pretty well so far.
I'm very puzzled this problem came out of the blue after it had worked
very well on both systems for months, at the same time on two
independend systems.
-- Sanne
11 years, 1 month
Re: DenyHosts {Solved}
by Marvin Kosmal
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Matthew J. Roth <mroth(a)imminc.com> wrote:
> Marvin Kosmal wrote:
>>
>> Did I type that..????
>>
>> It is /var/log/auth.log
>
> Marvin,
>
> Yes, but if it was just a typo and denyhosts is working now then you're all set.
>
> Regards,
>
> Matthew Roth
> InterMedia Marketing Solutions
> Software Engineer and Systems Developer
> --
>
HI
I want to thank everyone who gave words of wisdom..
Problem was user configuration error..
Once by that everything worked fine..
And that is what I suspected all the time. Just couldn't see my mistake
Thanks
Marvin
11 years, 1 month
Alacarte on F-18/64 XFCE -
by Bob Goodwin
Is there a problem with "alacarte" or is it something I am doing wrong?
I have three Fedora-18/64 XFCE computers all producing the same errors:
[bobg@box10 ~]$ alacarte
(alacarte:14894): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:72:18:
Not using units is deprecated. Assuming 'px'.
(alacarte:14894): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:72:20:
Not using units is deprecated. Assuming 'px'.
Then when I pick an item and ask it to show the "Properties.":
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line
448, in on_properties_button_clicked
self.on_edit_properties_activate(None)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line
326, in on_edit_properties_activate
process = subprocess.Popen(['gnome-desktop-item-edit', file_path],
env=os.environ)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 679, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1249, in _execute_child
raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
I would like to identify the names in the menus with nomenclature I can
understand, application names. Is there a way to do it with a text
editor, a file I can modify?
Bob
--
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
box10 Fedora-18 XFCE Linux
11 years, 1 month
