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How to disable fsck of root-filesystem at boot time?
by Clemens Eisserer 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

Hi, I would like to run Fedora on a nilfs2 root-partition. For now I only added the nilfs2-module to dracut.conf and it loads fine up to the point where it tries to execute the non-existing fsck.nilfs2. Is there any way to disable the execution of fsck.nilfs2? Thanks, Clemens

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How to avoid ARP flux issue in linux?
by Kevin Peterson 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

Hi, I have a setup where eth0 and eth1 interfaces are in same broadcast domain. But i have a virtual IP configured on eth1 and a physical ip on eth0. It is observed that if eth0 is default route then eth0 will respond to arp request for the IP configured on eth1. This would cause an issue since traffic will be routed via eth0. Thanks, Kevin Peterson

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random reboot finally hits me
by Tom Horsley 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

I've been seeing other f18 users talk about random reboots, and last night I finally had one as well. I'm not sure this 3.8 kernel should be called "stable" yet :-). I thought maybe all the scripts I have on cron downloading and transcoding programs from my TiVo overheated the CPU, but all the transcoding finished an hour or so before the system rebooted. Also, the reboot didn't work. When I turned on the TV I use as a monitor, the reboot was stuck at the "Starting KDE login manager" step (which is normally about the last thing it does), no GUI ever came up. (I wonder if the Intel video driver hung because the TV was off and it couldn't fetch EDID info?). Once I power cycled it, it booted up OK, but the only suspicious things I could find in any log files were chunks of NULL bytes laying around from when I power cycled the machine.

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Extract ".rar" file -
by Bob Goodwin 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

How do I extract "tomato-E3000USB-1.28.9054MIPSR2-beta-Ext.rar" ? The instructions said to "yum install p7zip" and I did that, but finding the command to make it happen eludes me. I've found a lot of things that don't work e.g. [root@box10 Downloads]# 7za e "tomato-E3000USB-1.28.9054MIPSR2-beta-Ext.rar" 7-Zip (A) [64] 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18 p7zip Version 9.20 (locale=en_GB.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,4 CPUs) Processing archive: tomato-E3000USB-1.28.9054MIPSR2-beta-Ext.rar Error: Can not open file as archive Can someone tell me how to do this? Bob -- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box10 Fedora-18 XFCE Linux

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keeping USB disk awake
by Sherman Grunewagon 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

I have an external SATA disk in a USB-3 / eSATA docking station. When I connect using eSATA, the disk stays awake. But when I connect using the USB-3 port, it goes to sleep after a few minutes. How do I make it work like the eSATA? Sherman

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how to fully delete user account?
by William Mattison 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

The language for a user account was set to simplified Chinese. Not what was wanted! So I thought I could just delete the account and re-create it. I used the Users and Groups GUI to delete the user account. I did check that the home directory for that account was gone. Then I re-created the account with Users and Groups. When the user first tried to log in, everything was in simplified Chinese! I re-tried all this with an added reboot between deleting and re-creating the account. It was still simplified Chinese. All other user accounts are English. Where is the language preference for that one user account "remembered" even after the account is deleted, and how do I clear it? No one here knows enough simplified Chinese to read/understand the simplified Chinese menu entries, buttons, prompts, messages, application icon labels, etc. Or how can I as root reset that account's preferences back to default without becoming that user? Thank-you in advance for your help. Bill.

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Re: Fedora vs RHEL
by EGO-II.1 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

Well....to add my two cents....I have been a Windows Admin since Windows 95....right up until now....and I can say with no prejudice that the few users who run Linux in the office call maybe once every four to five months with issues.....whereas the majority of the Windows users call CONSTANTLY with issues ranging from viruses...to programs that just DON'T WORK. If I could....I would flip the entire COMPANY over to Linux! I've been tinkering with Linux now at home for only a few years....but I haven't gone back to Windows since then....bottom line.....those who know......KNOW! If you're happy using Windows....stick with it....and then come see a Linux guru when you've had enough! Sent from Eddie's Cell Phone ----- Reply message ----- From: "David" <dgboles(a)gmail.com> To: Cc: "Community support for Fedora users" <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> Subject: Fedora vs RHEL Date: Sun, Apr 14, 2013 11:30 pm On 4/14/2013 11:23 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: > Quoting David <dgboles(a)gmail.com>: > >> On 4/14/2013 10:25 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: >>> On 04/13/2013 07:53 PM, David wrote: >>> >>> Meh. My mom (nearly 70) and my daughters (6 and 10) all use Linux. My >>> support level with them is orders of magnitude lower than it was when >>> they ran Windows. It's also a Hell of a lot easier to fix stuff on their >>> Linux boxen than it ever was with Windows. > > That precisely reflects my experience. I have a good friend, an > engineer, who used to use NT. I convinced him to use Linux instead and > have had a steep decline in the difficulty of support. He still asks me > for help once in a while but it's pretty much routine fixes. Other > friends with Windows still give me toothaches with the > incomprehensibility of their issues. Like fixing a motor on a car with > the hood welded shut. > > Dave My sons are adults and they maintain their own computers and phones. My mother uses Win 7 and in 4+ years has never broken it one. She use Firefox, Thunderbird, Libreoffice, Skype, and some program that I can not remember the name of that makes really complicated sewing patterns and stuff. As well as several other programs. She watches videos. Plays music. Streaming TV and movies. I fix nothing. IMHO? Use what works. -- David -- users mailing list users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org

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F 18 disk management tool
by Paul Erickson 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

On switching to F 18, whenever I try to use the "disk management" tool under "system tools" I get this message: There are no filesystems which you are allowed to mount or unmount. Contact your administrator. In previous versions of Fedora, I could access this tool without difficulty. What do I need to do to make this tool accessible? Thanks in advance. cheers, Paul

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Create a LiveCD with a static-IP config as default in NetworkManager?
by Fernando Cassia 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

I wonder if it's possible to modify a Fedora LiveCD to include a static-IP config in the default ethernet NIC instead of the default (which is to use DHCP), DNS etc?. Is there a single file that network manager uses for its default config?. If yes, that'd allow me to change a single file instead of resolv.conf for DNS, and using ifconfig to set the default gw etc... FC

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F 18 problem accessing external usb drives with XFS
by Paul Erickson 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

I have a couple of external disks that I formatted in XFS using F11, I think for data backup. Now with a new F 18 installation, when I plug in the drive, the disk icons appear on the desktop, but when I try to access them, I get an error message stating that the contents cannot be displayed due to not having the necessary permissions. A google search of the archives has not turned up anything so far. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. cheers, Paul

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