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[FC8] ssh and CAC card???
by Todd Denniston 17 Sep '24

17 Sep '24

From what I understood, the change to openssh listed in: rpm -q --changelog openssh |less as: "* Wed Jun 20 2007 Tomas Mraz <tmraz(a)redhat.com> - 4.5p1-7 - experimental NSS keys support - correctly setup context when empty level requested (#234951) " was supposed to allow the Common Access Card (CAC) to work with the shipped Fedora 8 ssh. As per NSS usual, everything is undocumented, i.e., `ssh-add --help` does not help at all, and `man ssh-add` points to `ssh-add -s reader` # ssh-add -s 0 Enter passphrase for smartcard: SSH_AGENT_FAILURE Could not add card: 0 # ssh-add -s 1 Enter passphrase for smartcard: SSH_AGENT_FAILURE Could not add card: 1 So does anyone know how to use the possible functionality, or are we reduced to reading the source? -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter

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This list's search engine not working?
by HaJo Schatz 22 May '24

22 May '24

Ever since I stumbled across this list, I seem to have major difficulties searching the archives. Say I want to see my posts to the list (they all have the same footer as below), I believe I could go to http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/ and enter "HaJo" as a search string. Searching in all sections, I get 0 results. Does the search engine ignore me by some reason? BTW -- I've been posting since about June, and when showing the archives sorted by author, I do find my posts. OK, not the most helpful to search for my own posts, but I do have the same issue when searching for given topics. Any other search engine out there indexing this list reliably? Google shows 0 hits on a "site:www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/" search... -- HaJo Schatz <hajo(a)hajo.net> http://www.HaJo.Net PGP-Key: http://www.hajo.net/hajonet/keys/pgpkey_hajo.txt

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Re: Tomcat
by Rahul Sadotra 21 May '24

21 May '24

Hi Michael, --- Michael Folin <michael.folin(a)donator.se> wrote: > how do I install Tomcat i fedora? > can't find it during the installation > If you mean during the installation of Fedora Core itself, then I don't think Tomcat is provided with Fedora Core (please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong). This means you will probably need to download Apache Jakarta Tomcat (either binaries, or the source which you'll need to build) and install it. Hope this helps. All the best, Rahul ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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SATA optical drives
by David Fletcher 22 Jun '23

22 Jun '23

I'm currently running FC5, will probably upgrade to F7 in a couple of months. Unfortunately my CD/DVD rewriter appears to have died, before it's even seen a dual layer disk :'( SATA hard drives run without problems for me, but now that SATA optical drives are starting to appear in the shops, would it be OK to buy one of these and get rid of another wide ribbon cable? Is anybody already running them with Fedora? Thanks for any advice/experiences. Dave F

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Changing date with procmail
by Michael A. Peters 08 Jun '22

08 Jun '22

Anyone know of a procmail recipe to change the date on incoming messages? If the date is in the future by more than 24 hours - I'd like to just change it to the current date. If the date is in the past by more than two weeks - I'd like to just change it to the current date. I'd like to do it in procmail - if someone knows how. I've done some searching, still have some to do. Found some stuff on extracting the date, but not on modifying it if necessary.

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Anyone running F11 on a Dell mini ? (Or another mini ?)
by linux guy 17 Jan '22

17 Jan '22

How is it working for you ? Thanks

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Re: Backing up system
by gmspro 02 Feb '21

02 Feb '21

Hi, http://www.sysresccd.org/Download With the SystemRescueCd I backed up the /dev/sda6 partition in /mnt/backup/ naming "diskimage" After backing up operation the file has the automatic extension like "diskimage.000". Is this file ok to restore? If I name it "diskimage.gz" then it is automatically renamed with this extension "diskimage.gz.000" But here below http://www.sysresccd.org/Screenshots the file is name like this: "diskimage.pimg" Do I have to name with the .pimg extension during backup to restore correctly? And how can I restore it?

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VPN options
by Keith Lofstrom 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

I am planning on running a Virtual Private Network from my Fedora firewall out to a UML virtual colo (running RH9) at another site. That site will be the place I present services to the world; httpd, ssh, sftp, smtp. This is to comply with the "no servers" and dynamic ip restrictions on my Comcast connection to the net; if my firewall always drives an outbound connection to the colocation site, I am not worried about changes of ip address, and I am not opening any inbound ports. There are a number of options for the VPN - the most attractive are cipe ( http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/cipe.html ) and FreeSwan ( http://www.freeswan.org/ ), though I am told that one can do all this through an ssh tunnel. I would rather have simple and secure than super-duper; I have plenty of bandwidth, and will send outbound http and smtp from the firewall, so the main bandwidth user will be incoming spam/b/b/b/b mail. Anyone have some experiences to share about setting up VPN? Is there anything about either cipe or FreeSwan that is likely to break with FC1 or FC2? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom keithl(a)ieee.org Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs

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nc missing option -z
by Suvayu Ali 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

Hi, I used to use netcat to check if a particular host is up or if I have internet connection before I run a few scripts. I would use the -z option in particular. But now I see that has been removed: $ nc -z imap.gmail.com 993 && sync-my-email.sh ncat: invalid option -- 'z' Here is the excerpt from the old manual page: -z Specifies that nc should just scan for listening daemons, without sending any data to them. It is an error to use this option in conjunction with the -l option. Any ideas what happened to it? What can I use as replacement? Thanks for any ideas. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.

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Re: Why Fedora is for experts only?
by R. G. Newbury 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

gilpel(a)altern.org wrote: > R. G. Newbury wrote: >> > Even better are the stupid messes where there is NO default setting to >> > change. Google 'kstartupconfig4 error 3' No-one, and I mean no-one knows >> > what causes this, or how to fix it. > > It seems somebody at the Fedora Forum had the same problem and solved it: > > http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%… > > http://minilien.com/?s9wh5OnNYI > > You might also want to try without the "Solved" keyword. There are more > results and sometimes people forget to add "Solved". > >> > It is the lack of documentation which makes Fedora (and Mandriva, and >> > Ubuntu) an OS for experts only..... > > It could indeed be better but geeks will always come up with the right > keyworks and show you the solution was there, somewhere. > > It's easier to find the right keywords when you know the solution :) I wasn't searching using "Solved" and the only keyword 'kstartupconfig4' And *that* answer does not work. My home dir was already 'user:user'. I have also confirmed the chcon context is now 'unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t:s0' for /home/user And it doesn't work! Still get the error and no login. Geoff -- Please let me know if anything I say offends you. I may wish to offend you again in the future. Tux says: "Be regular. Eat cron flakes."

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Re: Why Fedora is for experts only?
by R. G. Newbury 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

On 07/24/2009 06:29 PM, gilpel(a)altern.org wrote <snip> > I'm trying to figure out what our great experts would lose if there was a > pause for choosing the kernel. If they don't like this setting, they > wouldn't have to use vi, just the Administration menu. All it takes is a > few seconds and, thereafter, they would never have to suffer a pause when > they reboot every six month. > > What's the name of the guy responsible for this mess? Can you imagine > proselytizing Mac users and having to make sure they understand they will > have to change a default setting, otherwise, they may be locked out of > their system? Even better are the stupid messes where there is NO default setting to change. Google 'kstartupconfig4 error 3' No-one, and I mean no-one knows what causes this, or how to fix it. (Well, if there IS a 'great expert' who knows this, he's not talking). And what happens when you get this error? You cannot log in as a normal user. So I've been forced to log in as root for well over a month now on this laptop. (Quick! Get the smelling salts! A grey-bearded pony-tailed guru just fainted with an attack of the vapours!) And the problem has existed since I "upgraded" to F11...I suspect it has something to do with the fact that the /home partition was retained from F10 and that the chcon context might have something to do with it, but then, like pulseaudio, chcon has entirely too minimal a set of documentation. And I didn't even know chcon existed until a week ago, when it turned up as the possible source/answer to a completely different question about httpd. It is the lack of documentation which makes Fedora (and Mandriva, and Ubuntu) an OS for experts only..... Geoff -- Please let me know if anything I say offends you. I may wish to offend you again in the future. Tux says: "Be regular. Eat cron flakes."

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Re: Ranter or evangelist?
by Antonio Olivares 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

--- On Thu, 7/23/09, gilpel(a)altern.org <gilpel(a)altern.org> wrote: > From: gilpel(a)altern.org <gilpel(a)altern.org> > Subject: Re: Ranter or evangelist? > To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list(a)redhat.com> > Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009, 10:32 PM > 'Tonio wrote: > > > Micro$oft is losing out to google, Twitter, Facebook > and others. In a > > last ditch effort. Micro$oft is releasing code > to linux. Check out > > this at distrowatch. > > > > http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090720 > > Since Linux is strongon th server market, they want to > attract them to > Hyper-V, from what I've read. So? > > > BTW, Redhat also signed a deal with them, are they > > really falling off > > Red Hat signed "a contract" and Suse signed "a contract", > so Red Hat ans > Suse are just the same for both signing "a contract". > > Which "a contract" have both companies signed? > > -- The stories about Microsoft releasing code, was more of a another way to cover up for a GPL violation :( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/23/microsoft_hyperv_gpl_violation/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21882/Microsoft_s_Linux_Kernel_Code_Drop_Result… Not really because Micro$oft wants to help out a rival or a plague like Steve Ballmer once said. The truth comes out sooner or later. Regards, Antonio

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Re: Ranter or evangelist?
by Antonio Olivares 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

--- On Tue, 7/21/09, gilpel(a)altern.org <gilpel(a)altern.org> wrote: > From: gilpel(a)altern.org <gilpel(a)altern.org> > Subject: Re: Ranter or evangelist? > To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list(a)redhat.com> > Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 11:33 PM > > On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 08:08 > +0500, gilpel(a)altern.org > wrote: > >> Excuse me for being rude > > > > No. > > > > Oh, and I'm middle-aged, and run a debt free > business. Being doing so > > for over twenty years. i.e. I live in the real > world, and one that's > > well managed. > > > > The one needing to get a clue, here, is you. You > ONLY speak for > > yourself, and opinions are NOT facts. > > I was just about to go to bed but this message kept > haunting me. There's > lots of truth in what you say here: why care about anything > but the facts > and be haunted by questions instead of facts? Sometimes I > really wished I > was like you... > > Microsoft has 90% of market share, Linux only 1% and people > at Microsoft > certainly are very glad. So, why should we be sad? Wouldn't > this be giving > Microsoft an edge in gladness? > > And if, tomorrow, Linux only has only .01% of the desktop > market, would > that be any reason to be sad? Of course not, since you and > the codec geeks > -- they'll undoubtedly be the last! -- will always hold the > flag. So, > you'll be glad not to be bothered by know-nothing like me > and Microsoft... > will they ever be glad! > > Once again, everybody will be glad. So why worry, be > happy! > > Still, a last question keeps haunting me. No doubt, by now, > since it's all > well documented facts, you've read "From Microsoft Word to > Microsoft > World". In this document, Newman explains how, using its > proprietary > formats, Microsoft got rid of pretty much all competition. > It brought > every company to their knees, thn, bought and scrapped them > one after the > other. > > Of course, Microsoft can't play this game with Linux, since > Linux uses... > or tries to use open formats. Still, sometimes I wonder if, > with all the > money it has, Microsoft couldn't find a way to keep the cap > on Linux. You > know, keep it at an acceptable level of nuisance, say, 1% > of market share > after 18 years. > > Arrrgh! I'm afraid that's what I'll dream about tonight. > What a pain I am, > even to myself! > > -- Micro$oft is losing out to google, Twitter, Facebook and others. In a last ditch effort. Micro$oft is releasing code to linux. Check out this at distrowatch. http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090720 I like comment 133. It sounds just about right. There are many nice comments there. BTW, Redhat also signed a deal with them, are they really falling off or are they the Borg that is portrayed in comment 133? Regards, Antonio

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Ranter or evangelist?
by gilpel＠altern.org 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

Why is it that, when I insert an audio disk, I see it as an audio disk on my desktop, but when I click it, GNOME shows the .wav files that are present. No application is suggested, even under "Open", to play the damned music. If I go to Application, sound and video, the first option, "Audio Player", opens XMMS. Great! I click the forward button... I'm presented with a list of the... no, no, no! not the files on the CD, but the files in my home directory!!! Wow, we're really moving forward! I painfully navigate to /media, there's nothing in /media. Let's check mtab, my DVD/CD is on sr0, I believe. Nope, nothing there. Well, if the intend was to scare away Mac and Windows users, I would think that the success rate is 100%. I've been using Linux for 8 years and even "I" am scared! I do understand Fedora is for geeks, but would it make their life that difficult if things kinda worked? Didn't anybody notice that the present set-up makes absolutely no sense? At least, normally, you should go to => System, Preference, File Management, Media to select a default CD and DVD player. Still impossible! No option to change anything. I wrote about this. Nobody replied. Who's responsible for setting things this way? Is anyboby responsible somewhere or is it "We do all this together in a haphazard way" ? If so, never expect any significant market share for Linux. Radio-Canada will continue to use Windows Media because "Linux is too hard for ordinary people" (MSFT trademark). You think I'm a ranter? I've been told this quite often. But, while some people write code, I write to the Quebec Press Council. I explain that a certain so-called journalist is just a Microsoft sycophant. Every time he used Windows Vista, of course, there were a few... almost bugs. but certainly no show stopper. With Linux, the question is more complex. When a new version of Firefox comes out, for instance, instead of waiting for the upgrade, he gets the executable at Mozilla and, then, everything gets really complicated. Of course, the Press Concil understands perfectly what's going on. I made sure my basic complaint was very easy to understand: I explained the journalist NEVER discussed the appropriateness for the State -- television, amongst others -- of using proprietary format and never discussed tied sales. That's it, that's all. Still, after counceiding that the Press organisation lawyers had well understood my POV, the Council judged that the journalist gives a lot of coverage to Linux -- they didn't elabore on the kind of coverage: they can't evaluate, of course -- and, you know, given that Linux hardly has 1% of the market share, they found the coverage was adequate. So, I filed an appeal... and sent a copy to the Professional Federation of Journalists... I got my appeal. But the fight is far from over. The Press Council is heavily subsidized by the employer of said journalist, and Radio-Canada, another member of the Microsoft club. Seeing subsidies vaporize scares the shit out of those learned men: they could lose their precious jobs! So, they'll try every trick in the book to give a very mild tone to their judgement. But I have a few other tricks in my book to set the records straight, though having the support from the Linux community would certainly help. Cause... do you really believe I got any help from local coders for this fight? I got none, absolutely NONE. Why? Cause I'm a ranter. In other words, though I am not a programmer, when I see things that are not done correctly, I say so. They tell me I should fix the bugs. Why is it that there are so many programmers and I can't even set a default application for reading CD and DVDs? While I'm alone to do what I consider my job, why is it that the whole community doesn't get its act together to do such simple things? Sometimes I wished I could proselytize in a more positive way. I'd like to tell Apple users that Linux equals or surpasses OS X in user friendlyness, but it doesn't. It was like this ten years ago, it is still like this now. Countrary to what we could think from the success of Steve Jobs at the helm of Apple, in the Linux world, the only people who count are programmers. They'll fix things... soon. But Linux is not so young anymore. After 18 years, it has 1% market share. I believe there are some organizational bugs that need to be ironed out. For now, from an administrative POV, Linux is a merry-go-round that doesn't make much sense. What do you say, am I a ranter or an evangelist? Is it good for Linux to be ruled by programmers, the alternative not being necessarily the marketing department? :) Red Hat has some clout. How come they don't say "We want a music player that first detects CD files and plays them" and accept to include them on the default CD only on this condition? Etc., etc., etc.

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Re: Ranter or evangelist?
by Jackson Byers 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

Tim wrote >There's gnome-mplayer (there's probably a KDE variant), and smplayer, to >try out, at least. >I have used GUI programs like XMMS or Audacious to play streams, but >sometimes you need to tweak the preferences, to increase cache sizing, >to avoid skips. Totem is too much of a black box (not enough options to >play with). Before seeing above response, I had just tried smplayer and it seems to be working well no skips smplayer -playlist xxxxxxxxx.pls and it comes up with a small window that has volume slider and mute just what i want.. I havent tried it yet to play audio dvd Seems like I can remove Totem Jack

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How do I switch mirror for rpmfusion?
by gilpel＠altern.org 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

I'm still having problems downloading from liberty.edu . Ex, installing kdenlive: Total download size: 13 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: (1/15): GraphicsMagick-1.1.14-4.fc11.x86_64.rpm | 2.4 MB 00:05 (2/15): dvdauthor-0.6.14-8.fc11.x86_64.rpm | 187 kB 00:00 (3/15): dvgrab-3.4-2.fc11.x86_64.rpm | 133 kB 00:01 (4/15): ffmpeg-0.5-2.fc11.x86_64.rpm | 160 kB 00:01 (5/15): ffmpeg-libs-0.5-2.fc11.x86_64.rpm | 2.5 MB 00:15 (6/15): imlib2-1.4.2-4.fc11.x86_64.rpm | 228 kB 00:01 (7/15): jack-audio-connection-kit-0.116.1-5.fc11.x86_64. | 203 kB 00:01 (8/15): jack-audio-connection-kit-example-clients-0.116. | 42 kB 00:00 (9/15): kdenlive-0.7.4-2.fc11.x86_64.rpm | 2.6 MB 00:15 (10/15): libfreebob-1.0.11-5.fc11.x86_64.rpm | 160 kB 00:01 (11/15): mlt-0.4.2-1.fc11.x86_64.rpm | 144 kB 00:30 ... http://mirror.liberty.edu/pub/rpmfusion/free/fedora/updates/11/x86_64/mlt-0…: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out Trying other mirror. (11/15): mlt-0.4.2-1.fc11.x86_64.rpm | 3.4 MB 00:09 (12/15): openjpeg-libs-1.3-4.fc11.x86_64.rpm | 66 kB 00:00 (13/15): recordmydesktop-0.3.8.1-1.fc11.x86_64.rpm | 65 kB 00:00 (14/15): schroedinger-1.0.6-1.fc11.x86_64.rpm | 233 kB 00:01 (15/15): sox-14.2.0-2.fc11.x86_64.rpm | 458 kB 00:02 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 137 kB/s | 13 MB 01:35 I very often get those "Socket Error: timed out" interruptions. How do I switch mirror for rpmfusion?

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Setting up HP laserjets (1012) to work with Fedora 11
by gilpel＠altern.org 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

Unrelated to topic: I lost quite a bit of messages downloading them from Altern to Thunderbird and not being able to upload afterwards* but I would like to thank Todd Zullinger for reminding me that welcome messages are not just a way for forums owner to be polite :) But somethimes, you have many things to read... * ping smtp.altern.org ping: unknown host smtp.altern.org This used to work, but not anymore, according to lantre.org. So, I'll have to set up a Gmail account. Later. ----------------------------- Setting up HP laserjets (1012) to work I discovered a bug with the setting of my printer, an HP 1012. The configuration seemed really easy as it was identified correctly on a USB Port. A few clicks, and I was done. I didn't even check to see if it worked: I never had a problem setting this printer for years. Then, I tried to print and I had a message saying that the printer wasn't connected. Weird: CUPS was installed, the wire was OK. I went back to configuration and I saw there's an option for using HAL, the Hardware Abstraction Layer. I do believe HAL has always been part of setting my printer. So, I selected it but received the message that the HPIJS driver was not available. (Note that I tried the Gutenprint driver when the printer wasn't set to use HAL: it didn't work.) I installed hpijs, now everything is fine. I don't remember ever being asked to use HAL with another distro: it was always put to contribution, I suppose. So, there must be a way around this. Most newbies will never consider an option that isn't selected by default for a printer. Most probably other printers that use HPIJS have the same problem. Those that use ppd files, probably not.

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Did I really install Kmod-Nvidia ?
by gilpel＠altern.org 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

There are all sorts of instructions as to how to install Kmod-Nvidia on Fedora, but I thought yum would do a better job of guessing my configuration (x86_64, 9400 GT) to get the most up-to-date correct package and getting everything right. So, I just typed: yum install kmod-nvidia Now, /etc/X11/xorg.conf looks like this: # Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia" ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "AIGLX" "on" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nvidia" Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Enable" EndSection The file is only a few minutes old... So, I suppose it's a new config for the Kmod driver. But the process was so transparent, I can't help but wonder if all those modifications to the kernel that I read about in the doc have been made. If so, why not provide the documentation that all that is needed is to type the yum command? The Nouveau driver worked very well and, since I'm not too sure I'll install 3D, maybe I could have kept it. But my screen kept blanking once in a while for a few seconds. This happened with my previous computer too -- it had an old ATI card, the same monitor and a very standard open source driver for ATI -- but not so often and not for so long: it was just a quick blank. I thought this might fix the problem. Also, I intend to install a TV card and, it anything doesn't work, I'm sure the first suggestion from Nvidia will be to install their driver. As the material I buy is only on a one week money back guarantee, I prefer to make sure everything works in advance. Also, as it often happens when I download new packages, there was a socket error and a long (~ 1-2 min) halt before another server took over. (I forgot to save the console screen before I rebooted, but the name "liberty" was part of it.) After the installation finished, the rx/tx light of the modem began flashing very fast as if there was a download occuring... or maybe an upload if some information on the installation has to be sent back to rpmfusion or nvidia. No indication of what was going on appeared onscreen. Is this anything to be concerned about? Any idea What this transfer was about?

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Re: Getting more juice from a preamp?
by Antonio Olivares 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

--- On Sat, 7/11/09, gilpel(a)altern.org <gilpel(a)altern.org> wrote: > From: gilpel(a)altern.org <gilpel(a)altern.org> > Subject: Getting more juice from a preamp? > To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com > Date: Saturday, July 11, 2009, 10:34 PM > I listen to sound on my system with > headphones, so I only use the preamp. > > This aft, I was watching this feature on the cause of > Beethoven's death: > > http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/decouverte/2008-2009/Reportage.asp?idD… > > but the sound is a bit weak. You don't miss anything, but > you feel you > have to be very attentive. Maybe they wanted to make you > feel like you're > getting deaf yourself :) > > I checked alsamixer, but volume control is maxed out. Is > there any other > control somewhere else? Anything in alsactl or pulseaudio, > for instance? > > Thnaks! > > -- Try the following: $ alsamixer -c0 then $ pavucontrol after adjusting those to your preference save your settings with $ su -c '/sbin/alsactl store' put in your password and settings should be saved for next reboot, ***unless*** an update(s) breaks your configuration and let us hope that those things don't happen :) Regards, Antonio

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Problems with 3COM 3C900Combo
by Christian Moller 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

Hi all Fedora users, I have just joined this list. I am running the latest Fedora but I can't get my 3C900Combo networking card to work. I can see that the card is installed but no IP-address is asigned to it and I can't set it. So I think that there is a bug in that driver. Any other user out there who have a solution for this? Best regards and thanks, Christian

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RAGE XL Framebuffer
by Yanick Quirion 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

Hi all I know that is not a specific question about Fedora, but I can't find answer on the kernel mailing list. Is somebody having server with integrated ATI RAGE XL video card? Is it possible to patch the kernel to support this video card? If I add VGA=791 in my grub.conf, I will have a resolution of 1024x768 which is good, but the display is very slow (especially when the screen is scrolling). If I use I this: "video=aty128fb:1024x768@70" it will not work. I'm using kernel 2.4.22 but I will try 2.6.0-test11 today. If somebody has a patch, a link or anything else that can help me, it will be appreciated. Thanks for your help. Regards, ----------- Yanick Quirion Administrateur Réseau/Network Manager NEOKIMIA INC. Institut de Pharmacologie de Sherbrooke 3e étage (Édifice Z5) 3001 12e avenue Nord Sherbrooke, Québec CANADA J1H 5N4 Tél.: +1 819 820-6040 Direct: +1 819 820-6855 Fax.: +1 819 820-6841 email: Yanick.Quirion(a)neokimia.com

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Soundblaster
by Antonio Montagnani 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

I have two similar PC (old Pentium but workin fine) In Pc no.1 I upgraded from RH8 to Fedora and it went fine: Soundblaster is working fine In Pc no.2 I made a fresh installation but in redhat-sound-config Fedora doesn't see any card, that was working on Redhat 9 after soundconfig... Where is the trick?? I assume that my Sounblaster is an old 16...but fine on a router/firewall. Tnx Antonio

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WiFi permanently disappeared after booting test kernel
by Mike Fleetwood 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

Hi, On my netbook I booted a test kernel 3.8.0-rc4+ I compiled. Now after booting back into my regular Fedora kernel 3.6.11-5.fc17.i686.PAE my wifi network device remains permanently disappeared. No wifi networks displayed in Network Manager gui. Also the Network Manager syslog messages make it look like the device has completely disappeared. Suggestions for restoring wifi welcome. Thanks Mike Fragment of Network Manager syslog messages when working before --8<-- Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> monitoring kernel firmware directory '/lib/firmware'. Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> rfkill2: found WiFi radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.3/0000:01:00.0/ieee80211/phy0/rfkill2) (driver ath9k) Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> rfkill0: found WiFi radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill0) (platform driver eeepc) Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> rfkill4: found WWAN radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill4) (platform driver eeepc) Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> WiFi enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> WWAN enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> WiMAX enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> Networking is enabled by state file ... Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): using nl80211 for WiFi device control Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <warn> (wlan0): driver supports Access Point (AP) mode Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): new 802.11 WiFi device (driver: 'ath9k' ifindex: 3) Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1 Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): now managed Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: unmanaged -> unavailable (reason 'managed') [10 20 2] Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): bringing up device. ... Jan 18 23:01:59 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> Activation (wlan0) successful, device activated. Jan 18 23:01:59 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 5 of 5 (IPv4 Commit) complete. Fragment of Network Manager syslog messages when broken after --8<-- Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> monitoring kernel firmware directory '/lib/firmware'. Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> rfkill0: found WiFi radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill0) (platform driver eeepc) Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> rfkill2: found WWAN radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill2) (platform driver eeepc) Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> WiFi disabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> WWAN enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> WiMAX enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> Networking is enabled by state file No (wlan0) related NetworkManager syslog messages afterwards at all.

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What happened to floppy drive support?
by n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 07 Jul '13

07 Jul '13

I've been using a floppy boot disk as reserve if my HD boot fails, But it appears floppy support as now been removed. Why? Then how can I create an emergency media that is flexible enough to be updated as required? JB

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no printout, but no other hint of error. F18.
by William Mattison 05 Jun '13

05 Jun '13

Hi, When I try to print anything out, I get no printout. Even a test page does not come out. But no indication of trouble shows up on the monitor, and no indication of trouble on the printer's display. I did download and install the driver. cups gives no hint of trouble that I recognize. If I restart the system and boot up with Windows 7 home, I do get printouts. The printer is a Xerox WorkCentre 6015ni, I'm using Fedora-18, 64-bit, and the printer is connected to the system via usb bus. This is a stand-alone home desktop. I'm neither trained nor experienced in sys. admin. I've exhausted the help I can get from the printer's manual (media and web site). Any help you can give will be appreciated. Bill.

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how to make user account partially bi-lingual?
by William Mattison 20 May '13

20 May '13

(Fedora-18; all desktops) A user needs all * menu entries, buttons, prompts, messages, application icon labels, etc. within * desktops (Gnome, KDE, Xfce, etc.), all LibreOffice applications, vi, etc. to be English. But he needs to be able to both * enter and view text in both * English and simplified Chinese within * vi, all LibreOffice applications, internet e-mail (Yahoo mail, gmail, etc.), etc. where most files/messages will contain a mix of English and simplified Chinese. How does root and/or the user set up his account so he always has these abilities? In effect, we want the account to be bi-lingual, with English as the primary language, and simplified Chinese being a secondary language. Thank-you in advance for your help. Bill.

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mount --move doesn't work
by Pasha R 16 May '13

16 May '13

Hi, I'm trying to understand how mount --move can be used. Whenever I use it, I get an error "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock..." for example (something I found that supposed to work): mkdir foo bar mount --bind foo foo mount --move foo bar mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on foo, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so What is wrong with it? P.S. I'm using F17, with kernel 3.8.3

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f18+gnome3: howto recording desktop with audio
by Dario Lesca 11 May '13

11 May '13

How to record via ctrl+alt+shift+r, video and audio together ? I have fount this trick: http://askubuntu.com/questions/112473/audio-not-working-for-gnome-screencas… But the command for set the "org.gnome.shell.recorder pipeline" key: > gsettings set org.gnome.shell.recorder pipeline "queue ! \ > videorate ! vp8enc quality=10 speed=2 ! mux. pulsesrc ! \ > audio/x-raw-int ! queue ! audioconvert ! vorbisenc ! \ > mux. webmmux name=mux" ... do not work, and break the recording, likely this setting is for gstreamer-0.10, bud f18 use gstreamer1-1.x, true?. This is home page of shell recorder, but there is nothing for enable audio recording. http://developer.gnome.org/shell/stable/shell-shell-recorder.html Someone have suggest? Many thanks -- Dario Lesca - sip:dario@solinos.it (Inviato dal mio Linux Fedora18+Gnome3)

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fedora 18 gnome-shell core dumps before live system starts
by Bram Mertens 10 May '13

10 May '13

Hi, I wanted to give fedora 18 a try so I created a new virtual machine in virtualbox (host is Windows 7 enterprise 64bit). I'm using the 32bit live CD but no matter what options I try after the fedora 18 progress bar I get a black screen followed by the blue background for a short while and then a window displaying "oh no something has gone wrong please contact your system administrator". I've checked the media (troubleshoot check media and start fedora 18) and it reported no errors. I tried adding xdriver=vesa and troubleshooting > start with basic vide driver but I get the same result. I opened one of the virtual terminals and I'm able to log on as root so some system is running, but I'm unable to tell if this is the live system or some anaconda or other installer shell. /var/log/messages contains reports that gnome-shell core dumped and an abrt trace has been created. The only report I found that resembles what I see is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919669. In the abrt report I also see "Process /usr/bin/gnome-shell was killed by signal 4 (SIGILL)" in the reason file. Is there any other boot option I can try? Is there a way to recover from the gnome-shell crash? Perhaps force fallback mode? Thanks in advance. Bram Mertens

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Extraordinary delay in accessing web-site
by Timothy Murphy 05 May '13

05 May '13

I have a Linksys WVC54GCA camera in a remote site, which I access at http://xyz.com:8080 on one of my Fedora-18 laptops. For some reason there is now a delay of an hour or so in getting the image on my laptop. This occurs on both my Fedora-18/KDE laptops, whether connected by WiFi or ethernet, and whether using Firefox, Chrome or Konqueror. But it does not occur - I get an immediate view - running Windows XP on the same laptops, or on my server running CentOS-6.4. With Firefox I get the message "Connecting to ..." and then (endlessly) "Transferring data from ...". Any enlightenment gratefully received.

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F17 recalcitrant X server
by Beartooth 03 May '13

03 May '13

My wife's machine downstairs (built for us by a friend who speaks hardware; I do not) has been hitting the Diagonal Screen of Death (DSoD); it brings up the login screen with both our names, and lets you choose one. You type in userid and password, and whammo : DSoD. In that condition it does however let me login over ssh and become root. I did so, ran yum update (no trouble with that), and did a reboot. No joy. I tried startx. [root@Msgv2 ~]# startx xauth: file /root/.serverauth.1267 does not exist [....] Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: VT_ACTIVATE failed: No such device or address It referred me to wiki.x.org, where I found only discussions well over my head. But the directions there recommended trying to configure, and I tried : [root@Msgv2 log]# X -configure Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again. It said : Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.1.log" for additional information. I did that : [root@Msgv2 tmp]# rm .X0-lock rm: remove regular file `.X0-lock'? y [root@Msgv2 tmp]# cd [root@Msgv2 ~]# X -configure _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running At this point, it looks to me like a catch-22 -- wie man's auch macht, is' es verkehrt. Can anybody spare me a clue? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.

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Upgrade to 3.8.8-100: now boot loops !
by sean darcy 03 May '13

03 May '13

Upgraded F17 kernel to 3.8.8-100. Now it goes boots though udevd, i.e. "Welcome" seems to find the devices, though it's hard to tell since everything goes so fast. /var/log/messages has no messages from these boot loops. 3.7.9-104 works. 3.8.4-102, but now dies with an fb message that nouveaufb conflicts with vesa vga, so it's removing the generic driver. But it just hangs there. Any help appreciated. sean

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"hackers"
by Richard Vickery 02 May '13

02 May '13

Does anyone care to help me change the negative connotation that the outside world has of this term, one step at a time? The CBC just used the term with a negative frame on the Tuesday, 23 April 2013 30-minute radio news at about the half-way point. Everyone ought to go to this link and suggest that they should quit abusing the term. http://www.cbc.ca/w6/contact/ to listen to her abuse of the term, go to the link with "contact" removed / deleted - before Wednesday, 25 April at UTC 01:00 (PDT 18:00, in case I did the math wrong). Of course, the media are infamous for abusing scientific terms, such as calling the Higgs boson the god particle - a term scientists loathe - so I out not lose too much sleep over it. regards, Richard

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Runlevel 3 after fedup
by ellis＠spinics.net 01 May '13

01 May '13

After upgrade from 17 to 18 with fedup and installing all the updates I was unable to login as any user other than root. When I tried I was greeted with the message: "System is booting up". After beating my head against the wall I finally tried booting to runlevel 5 instead of 3. That fixed the issue. But booting to runlevel 3 and switching to 5 doesn't work. Possibly a problem with systemd? -- http://yosemitenews.info/

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F18 update left one update uninstalled
by Vinny Onelli 01 May '13

01 May '13

Hello, I am running f18 on HP laptop envy dv7, during one the previous update it left a message, "one of important update did not got installed" and now i get that message every time I reboot, and actually it try to install on every boot. Is the a way to clean this? I will appreciate help, and thank you. Vinny

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Problem with external VGA
by Miner, Jonathan W (US SSA) 01 May '13

01 May '13

I've got a Dell Precision M4600 laptop, running Fedora 17. Sometime after kernel 3.7.9-104, the external VGA output no longer works. If I boot with 3.7.9-104,with my projector attached, it is recognized. If I boot with 3.8.4-102, external VGA devices are not recognized. lspci: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GF108 [Quadro 1000M] (rev a1) (I've tried running the driver from nVidia, but that has screen rendering problems, with blocks of random data instead of my normal background pic) - Jon

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Installing R-3*gz
by Richard Vickery 01 May '13

01 May '13

In installing the latest version of R, I get stuck at the make command: $ ./configure checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu loading site script './config.site' loading build-specific script './config.site' checking for pwd... /usr/bin/pwd checking whether builddir is srcdir... yes checking for working aclocal... missing checking for working autoconf... missing checking for working automake... missing checking for working autoheader... missing checking for gawk... gawk checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for bison... no checking for byacc... no checking for ar... ar checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking for sed... /usr/bin/sed checking for which... /usr/bin/which checking for less... /usr/bin/less checking for gtar... /usr/bin/gtar checking for tex... /usr/bin/tex checking for pdftex... /usr/bin/pdftex checking for pdflatex... /usr/bin/pdflatex checking for makeindex... /usr/bin/makeindex checking for makeinfo... /usr/bin/makeinfo checking whether makeinfo version is at least 4.7... yes checking for ginstall-info... no checking for install-info... /usr/sbin/install-info checking for texi2dvi... /usr/bin/texi2dvi checking for kpsewhich... /usr/bin/kpsewhich configure: WARNING: inconsolata.sty not found: PDF vignettes and package manuals will not be rendered optimally checking for unzip... /usr/bin/unzip checking for zip... /usr/bin/zip checking for gzip... /usr/bin/gzip checking for bzip2... /usr/bin/bzip2 checking for firefox... /usr/bin/firefox using default browser ... /usr/bin/firefox checking for acroread... no checking for acroread4... no checking for xdg-open... /usr/bin/xdg-open checking for notangle... false checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for gfortran... gfortran checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... yes checking whether gfortran accepts -g... yes checking for g++... g++ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E checking whether __attribute__((visibility())) is supported... yes checking whether gcc accepts -fvisibility... yes checking whether gfortran accepts -fvisibility... yes checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking minix/config.h usability... no checking minix/config.h presence... no checking for minix/config.h... no checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes checking for gcc... gcc checking whether we are using the GNU Objective C compiler... no checking whether gcc accepts -g... no checking for Objective C++ compiler... trying some possibilities checking whether g++ can compile ObjC++... no checking whether can compile ObjC++... no no working compiler found checking for a sed that does not truncate output... (cached) /usr/bin/sed checking for fgrep... /usr/bin/grep -F checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864 checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for objdump... objdump checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all checking for strip... strip checking for ranlib... ranlib checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... (cached) yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... (cached) yes checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... (cached) yes checking whether gfortran accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for objdir... .libs checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes checking if gcc static flag -static works... no checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... no checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes checking if g++ static flag -static works... no checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... no checking for gfortran option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if gfortran PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if gfortran static flag -static works... no checking if gfortran supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if gfortran supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes checking whether the gfortran linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking for cos in -lm... yes checking for sin in -lm... yes checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes checking readline/history.h usability... no checking readline/history.h presence... no checking for readline/history.h... no checking readline/readline.h usability... no checking readline/readline.h presence... no checking for readline/readline.h... no checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no checking for main in -lncurses... no checking for main in -ltermcap... no checking for main in -ltermlib... no checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no checking for history_truncate_file... no configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not available [richard@localhost R-3.0.0]$ make make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. What does it want?

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Not reboot, X server shutdown :-(
by Tom Horsley 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

I found my system with no GUI running again this morning, but took more time to poke around, and discovered that it had not rebooted, it had just shutdown the X server and the boot messages were on the screen from the last time I booted. The messages in the X log seemed to indicate it had been requested to shutdown - it ends with stuff about unloading evdev and other modules. I find nothing in any of the logs that indicate anything was happening, unless maybe logrotate has gotten carried away and is shutting down the X server so it can rotate the X log file (but it would happen every night I'd think in that case :-). I'm using the motherboard/cpu Intel graphics. Anyone seen anything like this before?

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Wireless drops after kernel update. [Solved]
by fred roller 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

When f18 updated the kernel to 3.8.8.203 my wireless started dropping after a few minutes of use and had still kept dropping into kernel update 3.8.9.200. I finally found that IPV6 enabled may be the cause. The procedure at: http://www.linuxexplorers.com/2013/01/disable-ipv6-in-fedora-core-to-addres… which edits "/etc/sysctl.conf" to disable IPV6 at boot, and is originally for f17, worked for f18 as well. Here is my set up for comparison: - Acer Aspire 7520 - 05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01) - 3.8.9-200.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP on an AMD w/ 4Gb RAM so far the wireless has kept connection through two boot cycles. Disabling function is not a permanent fix so I am open to any further insight to this issue if anyone has any ideas. Hope this helps someone. Fred

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3840x2160 resolution?
by Tom Horsley 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

I am fascinated by the idea of having a Sharp PN-K321 monitor (but it will remain a fantasy till the price gets much lower :-). Out of curiosity though, I'm wondering if anyone out there in fedora-land has run a display at 3840x2160 and if so what video card and/or cards you used (and if open source drivers worked)? The manual for the sharp makes it seem a bit weird. You apparently have to run it as though it is two separate 1920x2160 displays - they just happen to exist right next to each other with no bezel separating them. Looking on newegg.com I find a few cards that claim to support 3840x2160, but it isn't clear if they can act like a dual display.

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systemd - partytime
by poma 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

Yippie ki-yay! journalctl | grep systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer | wc -l 2750 :) systemd 197 +PAM +LIBWRAP +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +SYSVINIT +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +ACL +XZ poma

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Re: announcing paste.fedoraproject.org
by Ed Greshko 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

On 04/30/13 06:57, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Greetings. > > I'm happy to announce that our sticky-notes pastebin service is fully > live and in service for any of your Fedora Project related pastebin > needs. > Nice to know..... I hardly ever use fpaste, but decided to try it today since the change was made. So, I simply used the first example in the man page.... [egreshko@meimei ~]$ ifconfig | fpaste -d "Test" Uploading (1.1KiB)... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/fpaste", line 447, in <module> main() File "/usr/bin/fpaste", line 414, in main [url, short_url] = paste(text, options) File "/usr/bin/fpaste", line 127, in paste response = json.loads(f.read()) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 326, in loads return _default_decoder.decode(s) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 366, in decode obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end()) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 384, in raw_decode raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded") ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded This seems to be https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888433 reported in December of last year with no action taken. :-( -- The only thing worse than a poorly asked question is a cryptic answer.

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Where is my Vbetool?
by Jean Francois Martinez 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Is there in F18 a successor to Vbetool? Its usefulness went far beyond setting the video at boot time. In sevaerl occassions I hacve had to kill X but this leaves the video card in a bad state and I can no longer have a text display until I reboot. In F17 vbetool could be used for resetting the video card to a sane state. Now I am forced to reboot. Unless there is a better successor vbetool should be reintroduced in Fedora. -- Jean François Martinez <jfm512(a)free.fr>

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Minor printing issue
by Joe Zeff 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Currently, I'm using F 17 and I have a reasonably new Canon MX410 printer. This works just fine except for one thing: it won't print pdf files, no matter what I do. (I've had this printer since before I had to re-install Fedora, and this has always been true; I just haven't taken the time to work out what's wrong before.) Both times that I've installed it, CUPS picked the printer right up and selected what appeared to be the right driver. (It picked the one with the correct make/model in the name.) I've checked with Canon, and they don't support Linux; all they could do was point me at Adobe, which didn't help at all. I've tried to run evince from the command line to see if there were any error messages and there weren't. Checking, I learned that both lp and lpr should be able to print pdf files from the command line, but both of them complain that the destination isn't listed. (TFM tells me that they both check $PRINTER and $LPDEST environment variables, but neither of them is set. I've used the CUPS interface to make sure that this is set as the default printer, closed and re-opened the terminal, but they're still not set. At least, echo $PRINTER and echo $LPDEST return a blank line. Replacing the printer is not an option because my income is very limited and, except for this it does everything I need. Does anybody have any suggestions, including further troubleshooting?

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Unrelieved black popups and message boxes
by Temlakos 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Everyone: I asked this before under a different heading, and no one answered. I get a large volume of e-mail, and very often I interact with a site that brings up a lot of message boxes, "suggestion boxes" (for auto-filling from a few keystroke clues), and bringing up apps after they were minimized to the system tray or the task bar. Now why is it that, after maybe two hours of operation, those popups come up and are totally black? The only way to solve the problem, that I have found, is to shut down. And even then, I can't even see what I'm doing, but have to guess where the icons are for executing a controlled shutdown. (I can always bring up a command-line login screen, log in as root, and then shut down. But that doesn't seem to solve the problem for the next session.) And when I log back on, everything's fine--until it starts happening again, after several more window draws. What could be causing this? Where do I even look for error logs and the like? I never had this problem in any other version of Fedora. I'm having it now, and it's driving me nuts. For the record, I used the "upgrading from F17 to F18 using yum" method. I even used the elaborate script that walks you through rpmnew and rpmsave reconciliation. And I've kept up with every system update since then. Actually, the problem began about three kernel updates back. Temlakos

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learning systemd: disable a "service" + create one to replace it
by Mihamina Rakotomandimby 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Hi all, Configuration: F17 LXDE spin. I would like to 1°) disable LXDM launch 2°) launch a custom script i the place of it The custom script is just a one-liner: /usr/bin/X :1 -query my.session.server # chkconfig --list: livesys 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off livesys-late 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off netconsole 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off network 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off spice-vdagentd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:on 6:off => I see no mention of "lxdm". I also tried: # find / -type f -name '*.service' => No mention of "lxdm". 1°) Where to find it, in order to disable it? 2°) Would you know a ressource if I want to make my custom script to be integrated to the systemd stuff, where to find how? https://www.google.com/search?q=custom+systemd+script is a bit messy... -- RMA.

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F17 LXDE spin: replace *DM systemd script for XDMCP
by Mihamina Rakotomandimby 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Hi all, I have installed several F17 desktop with LXDE spin. It's OK. Now I have a F18 "server" (on a 1U racked server), where I enabled XDMCP. I want the F17 desktops to be the X clients of the server, in a simple way (users are not geeks). To achieve this, - I want the LXDM not to start (well "chkconfig lxdm off") - I want the F17 desktops to replace LXDM starting by the connection to the X server -- Custom init file? (tutorial?) How would you advice to do? I dont want to use FreeNX nor XNest nor VNC, but full XDMCP. Thank you in advance. -- RMA.

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F18 xfce 'parole' media player cant even play back MPEG1 vids... (fixed)
by Fernando Cassia 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

The Parole media player in F18/XFCE is utterly broken. First I downloaded a .mpg file (mpeg1). Tried to open it with Parole 0.3.0 as delivered on the F18 livecd. it failed. The message was a generic "Missing plugins to play this file" message. Then I updated it with yum, it installed Parole 0.5.0-1. On the new version, it changed the dialog to a much more helpful: "Parole needs MPEG-1 Video decoder to play this file. It can be installed automatically." It provides two buttons, one of which is "install". I click on it. Nothing happens. I repeat the operation, same results. Q: Does anybody even test this stuff? Another half hour going in circles. I read about gstreamer1 replacing gstreamer, I install gstreamer1-plugins-good-* gstreamer1-plugins-bad* same results, nothing happens, MPEG1 continues unplayable by Parole. I think "maybe Parole uses gstreamer not gstreamer1..." I yum install gstreamer-plugins-good and gstreamer-plugins-bad... still unplayable. In the end, you want to know what fixed it? I googled around for "fc18 rpm gstreamer-ffmpeg" and found this file ftp://mirror.switch.ch/pool/3/mirror/rpmfusion/free/fedora/updates/18/x86_64/gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.13-8.fc18.i686.rpm I did yum install ftp://mirror.switch.ch/pool/3/mirror/rpmfusion/free/fedora/updates/18/x86_64/gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.13-8.fc18.i686.rpm Bingo, Parole can play back mpeg1 files. It should be like this, if 'Parole' can't play back mpeg1 files natively with the codecs installed on the LiveCD, let's retire it from F18 XFCE, please... as usual just my $0.02 FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell

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virtio-net broken for Linux guest?
by Tommy Pham 28 Apr '13

28 Apr '13

Hi, Is anyone having problem using virtio NICs for the Linux guest VMs (Ubuntu 12.10, CentOS 6.4, and Fedora 18)? My guests can ping any domain ( www.yahoo.com, www.google.com, etc) fine without any issues. However, when I do system updates (ie yum repolist, yum update, apt-get update, apt-get upgrade), it doesn't get out to the internet. But when I changed the NIC to e1000, everything works fine. I think the problem is with Linux implementation of virtio-net as guest because the same environment setup works fine for FreeBSD 8.x. TIA, Tommy

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How would a bad UPS affect only the network port
by Sam Varshavchik 28 Apr '13

28 Apr '13

I had a curious episode unfold over a course of a week involving a server running F18. I'm just trying to solve a little puzzle in the aftermath, as a mental excersize. I went through three bad UPSes. The manufacturer had a bad batch of UPSes. >From all appearances they worked when plugged into mains power. The server was up and running normally plugged into the UPS, which had mains power, but the bad UPSes wre draining their internal battery, even though they had main power. Each UPS lasted about a day before its battery went completely dead, it started beeping at me, with the server continuing to run on mains power. Here's the mystery. While I was dealing with that headache, the server started to drop off the network, maybe about every 5-6 hours, and stop responding to pings. The server itself, from all appearances, was running fine. I could log in on the console, everything seems to be working, except that it wasn't on the network. ifdown/ifup didn't help, ifup was getting stuck getting its IP address from DHCP. The switch had the server port lit, and blinking, as it was trying to contact the DHCP server, but the server wasn't getting its IP address. About 20% of the time, unplugging the cable and plugging it back in worked. A reboot always worked. The server would reboot, come up on the network, have no problem talking to the DHCP server, and run fine for a few hours before it stops responding to pings again. Anyway, while I was dealing with the UPSes, I also thought that I had this server's onboard NIC was going bad, and started getting quotes for a replacement server. But, after finally putting the server on a good, working UPS, it stopped having any kind of problems whatsoever with the network. It's perfectly fine. So, that leaves me wondering how a bad UPS would affect a server's network port, and only its network port. As I understand it, with main power, the UPS is pretty much out of the loop, and it kicks in only if mains power is lost.

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F18, F19 webalizer problem?
by Cristian Sava 28 Apr '13

28 Apr '13

Hi all, Webalizer is enabled via /etc/sysconfig/webalizer but I don't understand why /etc/cron.daily/00webalizer has this line: [ "z$WEBALIZER_CRON" != "zyes" ] && exit 0 that I think it should be (and it is working this way) [ "$WEBALIZER_CRON" != "yes" ] && exit 0 What is the mistery? C.Sava

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What's the best (recommended) way to modify a Fedora install ISO ?
by Fernando Cassia 27 Apr '13

27 Apr '13

I'm curious as to what is the best, or official way to modify a Fedora ISO image considering that I only want to change the defaults of a few handful packages, not do any major rebranding or modifications. For instance, I'd like a Fedora ISO that includes cups-pdf pre-installed as the default printer. How would one go about adding such package to the default LiveCD? Let's say also that I want only Firefox and all other packages under "Internet" removed. Just to name two examples... is there a "custom LiveCD creator" ? FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un Acto Revolucionario - George Orwell

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F18 installation on HP laptop envy dv7 dual boot with Win 8
by Vinny Onelli 27 Apr '13

27 Apr '13

Hello, I installed F18 on HP LAPTOP ENVY dv7 in a second drive in the end still boot the windows without show the boot menu. I then interchange the two HD I put Fedora HD on slat 1 and windows HD in slat two, still boot windows 8. To run F18 I had to disconnect the windows HD then the F18 boot and also shows the boot menu. I am not using windows very often, but I do ave programs that do not run on Fedora, so for now I need both Any suggestion as how to fix it? If not can I install Win8 in a virtual machine, but I do not were to start Vinny

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update issue on F18
by Vinny Onelli 27 Apr '13

27 Apr '13

Hello, I am running f18 on HP laptop envy dv7, during one the previous update it left a message, "one of important update did not got installed" and now i get that message every time I reboot. Is the a way to fix that? I will appreciate and thank you. Vinny

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How to recreate a destroyed boot-partition?
by Regina Anger 27 Apr '13

27 Apr '13

Hi I have accidentially deleted all contents oft my Boot partition. the system is still running so is there any cure which allows recreating the content there? i already ran dracut but that only recreated the initramfs file . THX reggi

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"This print job requires a PostScript Language Level 3 Printer"
by Sam Varshavchik 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

So I need to ship back some defective merchandize. The vendor sends me a link to a UPS return label, I open it in Firefox, and try to print it. The printer is an HP 1320. When I try to print it, the printer blinks happily for a few seconds, but stays quiet, and Fedora tells me that the print job completed succesfully. I try a few variations. Tell Firefox to print to a PDF file, then open it in evince, and try to print it. Same results. Tried having Firefox print to a PS file. Tried using pdf2ps on the PDF file. Tried a few other things. I forget exactly what I tried, but on one particular attempt the printer woke up. I got all excited, until the printer ejected a single page, with a single sentence "This print job requires a PostScript Language Level 3 Printer", and completely blank otherwise. Very funny. I finally got the label to come out by having Firefox print to an SVG file, opening it in document viewer, and printing it. That worked. HP 1320 is a postscript printer, but it looks to me like some PDFs (not all, I can print most PDFs without any issues) contain Postscript features that the printer does not support. Anyone know if there's a way to get CUPS to handle that correctly.

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Nvidia Drivers
by Lawrence E Graves 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

Are the nvidia drivers suppose to be working? If so, what is the secret? Also, I have a dualband router and I am not able to connect to my 5g network. Please advise. -- All things are workable but don't all things work. Prov. 3:5 & 6

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How to prevent Audio Device being looked for.
by Frank Murphy 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

How do I prevent sound devices being search for when trying to install from a LiveCD\DVD I have onboard audio disabled in bios, but I have an nVidia VGA\DVI\HDMI Graphics, and it's the hdmi audio it's hunting for. Coming up as nVidia HDA (device) The only bz I found was: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40748 -- Regards, Frank www.frankly3d.com

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F18 - dual screen problem
by Robin Laing 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

After an update, my dual display started having problems and I don't know where to look. A clean install of Fedora using KDE spin worked wonderfully with this setup. On one upgrade, the Fedora boot process is mirrored on both displays and stays mirrored after X starts which is configured as side by side. When I do a power on boot, the bios display is only on Display 1. Once Fedora picks the kernel, the display changes to mirrored and any comments or splash screens are the same on both screens. If I use CTRL+ALT+F3 for example, the terminal is mirrored to both displays. Screen saver password request box comes up on both screens but the data only goes in on one screen. I can use either box to enter the password. X runs slower under this configuration as I think it competes for control and if I try to run some applications (games) the display really gets screwed up if they require full screen, such as Tuxracer. This will be displayed on both screens in a mirrored mode and then won't go back to side by side until I reset the configuration. I have tried to search through the grub2 settings to find where the screen resolution is set but have not succeeded in configuring this. I am using Nvidia video card with the Nouveau driver. Is adding the following to the /etc/default/grub the correct way to fix problems? GRUB_GFXMODE=3840x1080x32 GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep

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Why is Fedora-19-alpha so extremely slow?
by Regina Anger 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

Greetings, Because F17 and F18 installers have bugs when installing with encryption enabled for "/" on my notebook (and the F18 respin does not start installation at all) I decided to give F19-alpha a try. However, the system runs very slow (compared to F17 on the same notebook) - XOrg performs poorly and larger applications (firefox) take a lot more time for startup than on F17. I guess this is because of debugging options (run-time checks etc) enabled. Is there any way to avoid this additional debugging overhead somehow, like some kernel parameters or .... Thx, Regina

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I must be missing something basic
by Dave Stevens 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

I want to transfer a dvd image from my laptop (ubuntu 12.04.2) to my fedora 18 box that has selinux disabled. Wired connection to my router allows F18 to browse to U12 and see the file and right click copy, but trying to paste into a folder in my /home/dave directory gives a terse 'permission denied.' Ideas? will Read TFM if pointed. D -- Dave Stevens <geek(a)uniserve.com> The problem with being cynical is you can't keep up! -- anon. philosopher

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Configuring emacs in F18
by Lain Cortés González 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

Hey, hi, I was trying to customize the theme color of emacs itself and I don't know why it doesn't work, I really mean it I don't have any idea of what is wrong My .emacs looked like in first place ;; .emacs > > (custom-set-variables > ;; uncomment to always end a file with a newline > '(require-final-newline t) > ;; uncomment to disable loading of "default.el" at startup > '(inhibit-default-init t) > ;; default to unified diffs > '(diff-switches "-u")) > > (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/") > > ;;; uncomment for CJK utf-8 support for non-Asian users > ;; (require 'un-define) > > then I add this to it to add a little of _good_ taste: > > (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/") > > (defun color-theme-nice () > (interactive) > (color-theme-install > '(color-theme-nice > ((background-color . "#101e2e") > (background-mode . light) > (border-color . "#1a1a1a") > (cursor-color . "#fce94f") > (foreground-color . "#eeeeec") > (mouse-color . "black")) > (fringe ((t (:background "#1a1a1a")))) > (mode-line ((t (:foreground "#eeeeec" :background "#555753")))) > (region ((t (:background "#0d4519")))) > (font-lock-builtin-face ((t (:foreground "#729fcf")))) > (font-lock-comment-face ((t (:foreground "#888a85")))) > (font-lock-function-name-face ((t (:foreground "#edd400")))) > (font-lock-keyword-face ((t (:foreground "#729fcf")))) > (font-lock-string-face ((t (:foreground "#ad7fa8")))) > (font-lock-type-face ((t (:foreground"#8ae234")))) > (font-lock-constant-face ((t (:foreground "#eeeeec")))) > (font-lock-variable-name-face ((t (:foreground "#eeeeec")))) > (minibuffer-prompt ((t (:foreground "#729fcf" :bold t)))) > (font-lock-warning-face ((t (:foreground "red" :bold t)))) > ))) > (provide 'color-theme-nice) > > (require 'color-theme) > (color-theme-initialize) > (color-theme-nice) > But when I open emacs nothing happens the default theme is loaded with its boring color scheme, I don't know whatever is its *real* init file. Some help will be absolutely welcomed -Isaac

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f17 -> f18, fedora-upgrade, all is well but slapd
by Maurizio Marini 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

I have upgraded f17 to f18 w/ fedora-upgrade and all went smoothly :) only this issue: # slapcat 51792415 bdb(dc=my-domain,dc=com): BDB1538 Program version 5.3 doesn't match environment version 5.2 51792415 bdb_db_open: database "dc=my-domain,dc=com" cannot be opened, err -30969. Restore from backup! 51792415 backend_startup_one (type=bdb, suffix="dc=my-domain,dc=com"): bi_db_open failed! (-30969) slap_startup failed I forget to do a backup before upgarding, how can I fix? mant thnx -m.

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How to configure yum to not check for free inodes?
by Clemens Eisserer 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

Hi, I am using Fedora-19-Alpha with nilfs2 on /. While everything worked great with Fedora 17, the updated version of yum also check for free inodes before executing the transaction: > Transaction check error: > installing package ..... needs 40 inodes on the / filesystem Which is just plain wong in case of nilfs, as it has no inode limit. Is there any way to disable that check? diskspacecheck=0 in /etc/yum.conf didn't help unfortunately :/ Thank you in advance, Clemens

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Reminder for FLISOL 2013 - Ciudad de Panam��
by Eventbrite 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

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Reminder for FLISOL 2013 - Ciudad de Panam��
by Eventbrite 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

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Using time zone UTC-5 (or GMT-5, or EST5)
by Bill Davidsen 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

I am getting some data on mountable media, and the device which writes the files runs in EST or whatever you want to call five hours west of Greenwich with no daylight time. The problem is that on a FAT or ISO-9660 filesystem, the date and time seem to all jump an hour during daylight time. Is there a better way to get the time correct than to run a separate system which doesn't use daylight savings? I have tried exporting TZ=EST5 (or EST or UTC-5 or GMT-5) to the mount command or the rsync command, that doesn't seem to help anything, I need the incoming data treated as EST, while the machine is at EST5EDT. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com> We are not out of the woods yet, but we know the direction and have taken the first step. The steps are many, but finite in number, and if we persevere we will reach our destination. -me, 2010

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Fax management sw for HP 4500 -G510n-z printer
by Kevin Wilson 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

Hi, I have HP 4500 -G510n-z printer what are fax management sw which are capable for sending/getting fax ? I saw on the web that efax is not so good and is limited to certain models. rgs, Kevin

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Who? Me?? Attacked???
by Beartooth 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

Arora has just crashed. SELinux reports that I may be under attack and should report. I'm guessing it's a lot more likely SELinux is being needlessly paranoid. (I'm running F17, fully updated, and arora had a probably excessive number of tabs open.) Is this guess plausible? What should I do? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.

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disk spindown
by Wolfgang S. Rupprecht 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

Has anyone succeeded in spinning down disks under Fedora? I've done the following and the "hdparm -C" does show the disk spun down, but the next time I look it is spun up, and it stays up. The disk is unmounted and I've stopped and disabled smartd, so it isn't accessing the disks. I don't think anything else is either. I'm probably missing a trick somewhere, but what??? disk=/dev/sdc hdparm -S 120 $disk hdparm -y $disk hdparm -C $disk -wolfgang -- g+: https://plus.google.com/114566345864337108516/about

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"Sticky keyboard" fault?
by Bill Davidsen 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

I recently got a pop-up say "Sticky keyboard - disabled" and my keyboard stopped working. My first reaction was that the message was translated to English, and "stuck key" became "sticky keyboard." Can't think of a sensor for that. In any case, keyboard was *WAY* disabled, plugging in a USB keyboard didn't help, ssh from another machine didn't help (keystrtokes not accepted), and I finally had to reboot the machine, after migrating all the guests elsewhere or shutting them down. Major PITA. So is there (supposed to be) a way to clear that? And how does the driver tell a stuck key from a user holding a key, like a gamer holding down "F" to fire weapons, as I've seen them do. How is it detected, and please may I make it not do that? Recovery by boot is a Windows technology, they might have it patented. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com> We are not out of the woods yet, but we know the direction and have taken the first step. The steps are many, but finite in number, and if we persevere we will reach our destination. -me, 2010

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I've stopped receiving mail from fedora users
by Sherman Grunewagon 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

For the past few days I've stopped receiving e-mail from the fedora list. I' checked my fedora membership mailing list config and found this: We have received some recent bounces from your address. Your current bounce score is 3.0 out of a maximum of 5.0. Please double check that your subscribed address is correct and that there are no problems with delivery to this address. Your bounce score will be automatically reset if the problems are corrected soon. I can't see anything out of order on my ymail.com account profile. (I've changed nothing.) There are no filters and no blocking set. I really don't know what to do at this point. Who should I contact and what else should I check? Any help will be appreciated! (I'll monitor <http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/>)

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key repeat problem
by Gary Stainburn 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

Hi folks I've got a dual boot PC at home with Win-XP and Fedora 18. (I did also have the problem when it used to run Fedora 10). When in WinXP everything works perfectly. However when in Fedora the key repeat doesn't work properly. Occassionally while typing I will get 2 or 3 of the same character which is rather annoying. What is even more annoying is that when I use the backspace key to fix the problem it will sometimes delete 10 - 20 characters instead of 1-2. The keyboard is a Microsoft badged multi-media keyboard but as I didn't have to install any drivers in WinXP I think it's just the same as any other multi-media keyboard. Anyone got any ideas how I can fix it? -- Gary Stainburn Group I.T. Manager Ringways Garages http://www.ringways.co.uk

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Eric4 segmentation fault
by Martin Airs 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

Good day all, I wonder if anyone else uses eric on here, and if someone has a fix/workaround to get this running? [martin@desktop ~]$ eric4 Segmentation fault [martin@desktop ~]$ thanks Martin

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OT: In case you've been worrying about MariaDB and F19
by SternData 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/22/wikipedia-adopts-mariadb/ Wikipedia is converting to MariaDB. -- -- Steve

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cups-pdf not installed by default, why?
by Fernando Cassia 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

Ever since I started using Linux (around Y2K, Caldera 2.3) the first thing I do is install a 'print to pdf' solution. Ever since I started using Fedora (FC6) the solution is to install 'cups-pdf'. So if cups-pdf is only 47 KB big, and has no other dependencies (other than cups, which is installed by default), then why on Earth isn't it included in the LiveCD? Booting from LiveCD and being able to print to pdf (for instance, content one sees on the web and wants to mail it to someone else while testing how well Fedora works), would be a big plus, if you ask me. So, what is the official sanctioned, polite way to get things like these accomplished in future Fedora releases? FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un Acto Revolucionario - George Orwell

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X displays test
by Richard Vickery 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

I want to know if I am late for the test. Moments ago, I read Mr. A. Williamson's email about the Intel test today, and started upgrading to Alpha over the last hour; I feel that it may to late. Am I correct in this or are the tests allowable to the 25th? Regards, Richard

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recoll and mime-text
by Dave Stevens 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

I've taken the suggestion of poma from earlier to try recoll as a desktop search engine. It indexed everything nicely and is very quick. I can't seem to get attachments out of my retrieved emails. So the one I'm looking for right now has an attached .pdf, but the whole mail, headers and mime text and all, displays as ascii text. I can use recoll's 'open' command, which fires up thunderbird and shows the attachment with an automatically generated name (gibberish, more or less) but when I try to save then view the attachment gedit is showing me the ascii. I vaguely recall years ago having to manually detach mime-encoded text but don't remember details. Anyone? Dave -- The problem with being cynical is you can't keep up! -- anon. philosopher

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Fw: Email clients have gone crazy
by Aaron Konstam 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

--- --- I am running F18. But suddenly this morning my e-mail clients claim not to accept my server passwd. When I open evolution it asks for a passwd whxih it has never done before. My usual mail server passwds do not work.' Thunderbird claims that my login or passwd is wrong. Where the login is my e-mail address. My mail servers are those from at&t. When I go ot the at&t web interface my email address and server passwd works. So I am very confused. Evolution did not owrk like this way yesterday or ever in the last decade. What could be wrong?

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'Unknown filesystem type: exfat'
by Fernando Cassia 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

F18 here. I thought Linux included support for Microsoft's exFat? I get "'Unknown filesystem type: exfat' when plugging a Sandisk U3 8GB Pen Drive formattted on WinXP with Exfat... FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell

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(Over)loading Browsers (was Re: Who? Me?? Attacked???)
by Beartooth 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:35:52 +0930, Tim wrote: > Not in particular response to your actual problem, but... > > Allegedly, on or about 23 April 2013, Beartooth sent: [....] >> My guess is that Arora had well over a hundred, but well under two >> hundred, tabs open when it crashed. > > I really don't know how anybody does that, with any browser. On any > computer that I've ever used, including other people's, the thing grinds > to a sludgey halt when anything more than about twenty tabs are open, > often far less. Especially with any pages that aren't just plain text. > Scripts, Flash, even just lots of pictures, are the kiss of death. And, > no, my computer isn't paging out to swap. Well, I can tell you how it comes about, if you're asking that. Then maybe we can find out if any browser(s) tolerate it better than any other(s). Wikipedia is my usual downfall, because I try to treat it much as I would a physical encyclopedia, especially a big single-volume one -- in which case, having begun one article, I'd turn to related articles, insert scraps of paper, and go back. Say I start to read about aspirin. It's a short article, but as usual, there are several links. One or two will be short enough to click to, read, and return, without losing context. Others will turn out to be pretty long; go back, click this time to open in another tab, and resume reading about aspirin. Then still other links will refer to things I've long wanted to read about; again, open a background tab. And so on -- recursively. And if this sounds bad, be assured that when I had a carrel in the stacks of a big library (as I did for twenty years) it was an order of magnitude more onerous. The thing of it is, though, that it's so insidious. The row of tabs grows gradually, and the slowing down is also gradual, and it gets to be a little like quicksand. However, any time I'm not otherwise preoccupied, I can always read my way through a long and known to be interesting sites, closing tabs behind me. But don't do it with any browser that doesn't keep a current list of your tabs! -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.

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Does 'dhcping' work on F18 ?
by Aaron Gray 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Does 'dhcping' work on F18 ? Many thanks in advance, Aaron

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synaptics gone?
by Andras Simon 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

On an up-to-date F-17 synclient complains: "Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?" And indeed, there's no sign of the synaptics driver being loaded in Xorg.log. Is there anything I could check or change? Andras

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how to change character menu font in ibus？
by William Mattison 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

(Fedora-18) Using ibus's settings GUI, I configured ibus to use a size 16 kai font to display a list of simplified Chinese characters that match the pinyin that the user types to enter a simplified Chinese character. But when I try to enter Chinese characters (in vi in a Gnome terminal), the menu of characters is displayed in a smaller ming(?) font. It is the same in LibreOffice Writer. My configuration settings seems to be ignored. Chinese characters, even simplified Chinese characters, can have over 20 strokes (compare 'W' and 'M' have only 4 strokes each). The smaller size and ming(?) font is harder to read. How do I get ibus to use the kai font and bigger size in its character menus? thanks, Bill.

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[F18][ATI Rage XL] Problems with install on ATI Rage XP video driver
by Aaron Gray 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

I am getting 1/4 of a screens worth of the Anaconda and runtime display on F18. It worked alright on F14 and F16. It seems to be to do with the HP DL 140 G3's ATI Rage XL video controller. The main install option gives garbage graphics and the basic graphics install option give 1/4 or less of the display on the screen. I have tried with multiple monitors but get the same results. Has X.org depreciated the ATI Rage XL video driver ? Are there any options on startup and on GRUB that may help me ? There seems to be a similar problem on Ubuntu, here's a solution :- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1086996 Many thanks in advance,

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Can't install KDE games off Fedora Repo.
by Mickey 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

Fedora 18 . Trying to install KDE Games off Fedora Repo and I get this error message, looks like its missing a bunch of lib depenencies on the Repo. Has anyone run in to this ? Dependency Resolution Errors: Package: 6:kdegames-minimal-4.9.4-1.fc18.i686 (fedora) Requires: kdegames-libs(x86-32) = 6:4.9.4-1.fc18 Installed: libkdegames-4.10.2-1.fc18.i686 (@updates) kdegames-libs(x86-32) = 6:4.10.2-1.fc18 Available: 6:kdegames-libs-4.9.4-1.fc18.i686 (fedora) kdegames-libs(x86-32) = 6:4.9.4-1.fc18Package: 6:kdegames-4.9.4-1.fc18.i686 (fedora) Requires: kdegames-libs(x86-32) = 6:4.9.4-1.fc18 Installed: libkdegames-4.10.2-1.fc18.i686 (@updates) kdegames-libs(x86-32) = 6:4.10.2-1.fc18 Available: 6:kdegames-libs-4.9.4-1.fc18.i686 (fedora) kdegames-libs(x86-32) = 6:4.9.4-1.fc18Package: 6:kdegames-4.9.4-1.fc18.i686 (fedora) Requires: libkolfprivate.so.4 Available: 6:kdegames-libs-4.9.4-1.fc18.i686 (fedora) libkolfprivate.so.4 Available: kolf-libs-4.10.2-1.fc18.i686 (updates) libkolfprivate.so.4Package: 6:kdegames-4.9.4-1.fc18.i686 (fedora) Requires: libiris_ksirk.so.2 Available: 6:kdegames-libs-4.9.4-1.fc18.i686 (fedora) libiris_ksirk.so.2kajongg conflicts with 6:kdegames-4.9.4-1.fc18.i686Package: 6:kdegames-4.9.4-1.fc18.i686 (fedora) Requires: libpala.so.0 Available: 6:kdegames-libs-4.9.4-1.fc18.i686 (fedora) libpala.so.0 Available: palapeli-libs-4.10.2-1.fc18.i686 (updates) libpala.so.0

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Fedora 18 cannot mount any USB device
by Marek Miller 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

Hi all, After upgading F18 a week ago I cannot mount any sub device: /var./log/messages contains following lines Apr 18 20:04:32 stargate kernel: [ 5908.641582] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] 30489408 512-byte logical blocks: (15.6 GB/14.5 GiB) Apr 18 20:04:32 stargate kernel: [ 5908.642204] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off Apr 18 20:04:32 stargate kernel: [ 5908.642824] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] No Caching mode page present Apr 18 20:04:32 stargate kernel: [ 5908.642829] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through Apr 18 20:04:32 stargate kernel: [ 5908.646204] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] No Caching mode page present Apr 18 20:04:32 stargate kernel: [ 5908.646210] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through Apr 18 20:04:32 stargate kernel: [ 5908.666358] sdd: sdd1 Apr 18 20:04:32 stargate kernel: [ 5908.669077] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] No Caching mode page present Apr 18 20:04:32 stargate kernel: [ 5908.669082] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through Apr 18 20:04:32 stargate kernel: [ 5908.669086] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk Apr 18 20:04:33 stargate multipathd: sdd: add path (uevent) Apr 18 20:04:33 stargate systemd-udevd[3573]: inotify_add_watch(7, /dev/sdd1, 10) failed: No such file or directory Apr 18 20:04:33 stargate multipathd: sdd: rport id not found Apr 18 20:04:33 stargate multipathd: sdd path added to devmap mpathc Apr 18 20:04:34 stargate multipathd: sdd: holder already correct Any help appreciated, Marcus

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unshare strange behavoius
by David Shwatrz 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

hello, I created a mount namespace thus: I run: unshare -m /bin/bash and then mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /test cat /proc/mounts |grep test shows this: tmpfs /test tmpfs rw,relatime 0 0 from a second terminal I run: cat /proc/mounts | grep test tmpfs /test tmpfs rw,relatime 0 0 Now, the unshare -m /bin/bash should have created a private mount namespace ; why do I see the mount I performed on another terminal, which runs the default mount namespace ? according to what I know, changes in the new namespace I created should not propagate to other namespace (unless we explicitly use the share flag with mount) rgs DavidS

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Keyboard LED applet
by Ian Pilcher 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

Just when you think that laptop manufacturers couldn't go any farther off the rails, Lenovo has apparently decided that physical keyboard status LEDs are just too darn expensive. Does anyone know of a keyboard LED applet/widget that can be used with KDE? (An actual Plasma widget is obviously preferred, but I'll take anything that can run in the system tray.) Thanks! -- ======================================================================== Ian Pilcher arequipeno(a)gmail.com Sometimes there's nothing left to do but crash and burn...or die trying. ========================================================================

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Unable to login - Cannot open font file true, previous help not working
by Alexandre Fernandes 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

I'm new on linux (Fedora) and today while trying to install google earth and MySQL http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20071021085924955/MySQL.html, after re-start the computer I got the message: cannot open font file true. I found some help such as "edit your /etc/default/grub file, and on the lie with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX there is a parameter that says SYSFONT=True". All help I found online did not work because I can't login in Fedora and therefore can't access the terminal. The only thing I'm able to use command line is GRUB that does not accept any of the usual commands. If it is not possible to solve this bug, is it there a way to do a back up of my files to an external HD from GRUB? thanks for any help! I'm bit desperate because I have quite important data. Best regards Alex

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Error mounting Solaris disk (UFS)
by Fernando Cassia 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

After discovering an ancient 40GB hard drive in a drawer under of a pile of ancient papers (!), I decided to take a peek on it to see if there's any data worth keeping, before formatting. Discovering the file system gives me "Unix Fast File System" # file -sL /dev/sde12 /dev/sde12: Unix Fast File system [v1] (little-endian), last mounted on /export/home, last written at Fri Sep 26 01:46:07 2003, clean flag 2, number of blocks 37882656, number of data blocks 37287436, number of cylinder groups 767, block size 8192, fragment size 1024, minimum percentage of free blocks 1, rotational delay 0ms, disk rotational speed 60rps, TIME optimization However, when I try to mount it, I get errors... # mount -t ufs -o ufstype=ufs,ro /dev/sde12 /mnt/disk39 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sde12, missing codepage or helper program, or other error Changing ufstype to ufs2 gives me the same error. Any ideas? This disk was installed on a system that ran Solaris 7 x86 at the time, I guess that was before ZFS... FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell

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where is volume control thermometer
by Mike Wright 21 Apr '13

21 Apr '13

Hi all, Running f18 installed from the xfce live spin. Keyboard volume controls used to pop a small window center screen that showed the current volume. It provides instant feedback without having to leave the keyboard and updates in real time as the volume is adjusted. IMO that is a very simple and elegant way of communicating with the user Is it still available? If so, what is its package name?

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User lock really locks...
by fred roller 21 Apr '13

21 Apr '13

Hello all, I am new to the thread and have been away from the community for a spell. I installed 18_64 on an Aspire7520 laptop and have enjoyed getting back into Linux again. So you know I am comfortable in CLI and fairly familiar with some of the inner workings and have been able to troubleshoot most issues which have come up. The issue I have is when I select "Lock" from the user options, upper right hand the system locked the account. Nothing would cause a prompt for password to get back into the account. Music was still playing from when I left it, etc. everything seemed to work fine. I do know that "esc" would give me the password prompt when the system locked from settings in "System Setting --> Brightness & Lock" so the function seems to work as advertised except when I choose Lock. Will be surfing for answers, if anyone can get me pointed in the right direction it would be appreciated. It's good to be back. :-) Fred

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F18 livecd can't play wma files, and no mplayer
by Fernando Cassia 21 Apr '13

21 Apr '13

I booted Fedora 18 off a LiveCD, and want to play back wma files. So far, all my attempts have been unsuccesful. It's clear no wma playback codecs are included with the files. Plus, MPlayer, which usually plays back 'everything' is NOT included in the official repos, and if I try to install mplayer from ATRPMS, it gets a thousands (I'm exaggerating) dependencies and installation aborts. I tried looking around for a STATIC BUILD of mplayer, but that doesn't seem to exist (someone used to compile mplayer statically, many many years ago, but it seems there's no static builds of recent versions). Please, let me know of ANY -preferably tiny and NOT dependencies encumbered- player I can run on F18 from a LiveCD to play back wma files.... TIA FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un Acto Revolucionario - George Orwell

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NIC lockup in 3.8.8 (forcedeth)
by Sam Varshavchik 21 Apr '13

21 Apr '13

Is anyone running hardware with nforce gige NICs that use the forcedeth kernel module. Twice now, after updating to 3.8.8, after ~24 hours of runtime the server drops off the network, with its port on the NIC flashing crazy. ifdown works, ifup hangs forever.

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fuse mount after boot
by Kevin Wilson 21 Apr '13

21 Apr '13

Hello, I have fedora 18. After boot, running mount | grep fuse shows: gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/0/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0) fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime) do I need the second mount (fusectl mount ) ? How can I disable it in boot in case it is not important ? for what do I need the first (gvfsd-fuse) on /run/user/0/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0) after boot ? How can I disable it in boot in case it is not important ? rgs, Kevin

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Can't upgrade Fedora 17
by Mateusz Marzantowicz 21 Apr '13

21 Apr '13

I can't cleanly upgrade my Fedora installation (I use --skip-broken), below is error reported by yum: Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package febootstrap-supermin-helper.x86_64 0:3.20-1.fc17 will be obsoleted --> Processing Dependency: febootstrap-supermin-helper >= 3.3 for package: 1:libguestfs-1.18.11-2.fc17.x86_64 ---> Package supermin-helper.x86_64 0:4.1.1-1.fc17.2 will be obsoleting --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: 1:libguestfs-1.18.11-2.fc17.x86_64 (@updates) Requires: febootstrap-supermin-helper >= 3.3 Removing: febootstrap-supermin-helper-3.20-1.fc17.x86_64 (@updates) febootstrap-supermin-helper = 3.20-1.fc17 Obsoleted By: supermin-helper-4.1.1-1.fc17.2.x86_64 (updates) Not found Available: febootstrap-supermin-helper-3.14-4.fc17.2.x86_64 (fedora) febootstrap-supermin-helper = 3.14-4.fc17.2 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest This is not rawhide or other testing env. It's frequently updated "stable" F17 system. I'd like to ask here if anybody had this problem, before I start remove/re-install package by package orgy. Mateusz Marzantowicz

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OT: "distro" goes mainstream :-)
by Patrick O'Callaghan 21 Apr '13

21 Apr '13

Todays's New York Times crossword has "distro" as an answer. I don't think I've ever seen it used in a mainstream publication. poc

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Problems with nc command - F18
by Robert Moskowitz 21 Apr '13

21 Apr '13

Hello, I am trying to get Fedora-18-arm on my pogoplug, and having problems so I as told to use netconsole to troubleshoot. I am attempting to follow instructions from: http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,14,14 I am up to starting nc in listen mode: nc -l -u -p 6666 I have opened udp port 6666 on my notebooks firewall, but I get a usage error, indicating the options are not valid. So I read the manpage, and find out that our nc cannot have l and p together. So I try out: nc -u -p 6666 And I still get the warning. Can anyone point me to what the proper Fedora options are for this?

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firewalld files
by Robert Moskowitz 20 Apr '13

20 Apr '13

I have just built my first F18 box, and of course it is 'special'; it is a Pogoplug running the armv5 distro. I have already had a couple issues with this, and the fedora-arm list told me that these are general fedora issues, so take it to the general fedora list. So to start: What are the firewalld files? I have found one, so far, under /etc/sysconfig. I need to figure out if one failure was I did something wrong with the firewall-cmd line command. thanks

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F18 - no ifcfg-eth0
by Robert Moskowitz 20 Apr '13

20 Apr '13

Again this is the pogoplug armv5 install. There is no /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 Only an ifcfg-l0 Yet the ethernet works, via dhcp. there is no hostname. No hostname line in /etc/sysconfig/network and of course not in ifcfg-eth0. In /etc/hosts, the system is labeled localhost.localdomain. A new one on me is /etc/hostname that has one line saying localhost.localdomain. Of course I want a specific fqdn for this system, so I need to change all of this the right way. Of course no GUI; this pogo only has 256Mb memory (not the 'bigger' 512Mb unit). Only ssh access; I don't have the serial port adapter. I do have netconsole setup; but only if the pogo is at a particular IP addr and to nc at a particular IP addr (set up in uboot). Any insights are appreciated. Do I create an ifcfg-eth0 and how? Is there a tool to properly setup hostname, or do I find all places where it lives and fix it? I only have a little time to work on this before I head off the first half of next week to yet another meeting. thanks

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devede embedded subtitles
by Randolph Jones 20 Apr '13

20 Apr '13

can dvede make a video dvd using the srt file to embed subtitles? I have tried several times; I get various errors/crashes. the dvd does not play subtitles in dvd player I can make a dvd that plays embedded subtitles in dvd player, but lots of old movies on youtube have separate subtitle files, and downloadhelper does not download the srt file with the movie, and the downloaded movie does not have subtitles. vlc can play the downloaded movie with the srt file to produce a subtitled movie. problem is how to make a dvd from this material that will play in a player. TIA rfjones

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Fedora vs CentOS -- php/apache and Drupal 7
by Roger 20 Apr '13

20 Apr '13

This is a call for understanding because of lack of knowledge. Apologies for the mix of issues in one message but they all relate to the same problem. Firstly, I've been reading the pro's and con's of RHEL and Fedora and am none the wiser. It seems to be around cost of service and lack or availability thereof. The beginning discussion was, I think on stability. It made me start thinking about Fedora vs CentOS because of the problems I'm experiencing with Drupal 7 and php/Apache in Fedora 18 so here goes. I believe that the latest Apache updates of some time ago were flawed or do not correctly interact with php or php updates were flawed and have not been corrected. I have nothing to back up this assertion other than the problems now being experienced and a recommendation to remove php 5.4 and revert to an earlier version. Please don't quote me on this, It's what I've noticed, read and considered. When I use Ruby on Rails I do not have issues because it uses WEBrick. Discussion to date says that CentOS circa 6.n has the Fedora 14 kernel, is rock solid and gets updates every 6 months approx. Fedora 18 has kernel updates every few days or weeks at most. Frankly I enjoy the update cycle. It's interesting to see what gets improved. I have always run latest Fedora versions and have not experienced the current raft of problems. Fedora 18 sudo yum update, updates everything apps, modules, etc that needs security fixes or improvements. CentOS is a server system but can be used for a stable desktop system and has been recommended as an alternative. So what does CentOS 6.n desktop, yum update actually update or does it leave all the apps like cinnamon desktop, skype, gimp, apache, php, libreoffice, python, pulseaudio, gnome, Firefox or chrome as they are first installed, circa Fedora 14ish? One would think that this would leave significant vulnerability. If it runs the latest spate of updates then is it not little different from Fedora 18 but with an old kernel? Further reading implies that the better CentOS installation should be text based as a server only and that I should run all my work on the server not Fedora 18. I am now having significant problems with an already built Drupal 7 site on Fedora 18 after the latest spate of php updates and am perplexed as to what to do to get a quality stable functioning and stay functioning. I've got ubuntu 12.10 but it is now so slow that it's not easy to use. Further, I have 2 gig memory, intel mb, fast dual cpu, 250g hard drives and my desktop fedora 18 uses 55-63 percent memory. I thought this may be affecting php and apache, hence Drupal, but The Dell 1520 laptop has the same internals and memory and uses 25percent of the 2 gig memory, same drupal, same Ruby on Rails. I'm puzzled because after checking ps aux, top, and System Monitor on both they are very similar yet memory usage is markedly different. I do not know what I should be looking at to understand the issues and/or fixes. Is there an app that I can use to track what happens in the browser, apache, php and Drupal when I start the Drupal site on my machine. Help is greatly appreciated thanks in advance Roger Off Topic...Does anyone know of a Rails dev who would be able to help and teach me building a small application? Thanks again Roger

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Fedora vs RHEL
by mike 20 Apr '13

20 Apr '13

Hi, Does there exist anywhere a list or comparison about which Releases of Fedora correspond to what Releases of RHEL? Thanks Mike D.

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how to create iso9660 archive.
by William Mattison 20 Apr '13

20 Apr '13

(fedora-18, all desktops) I would like to burn a single dvd with an ISO9660 - Rock Ridge - Joliet file made from: * /home/user1/project17/ * /home/user2/project17/ * /home/user2/.hidden/ Each of these directories has multiple levels of subdirectories. user1 and user2 each has other directories directly under his $HOME directory. I tried to use "Brasero" to do this. But the ISO file it created was a mere 71.7 KB, though these three directories contain over 600 MB of files. I get the impression that the tool only looked one level below what I dragged to the right side of the screen. I need it to go all the way down, like a "cp -r". On my old Redhat 9 system, X-CD-Roast handled that beautifully. I also tried this with another tool whose name I now cannot now recall or find. It was worse. How do I do this with Fedora-18? Thank-you in advance for your help. Bill.

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Changing a read only file system to write
by Mickey 20 Apr '13

20 Apr '13

I have a 32gb SD card that is partition with a fat32 and is read only, I want to make the SD card a Linux boot, but I need to get rid of the Fat32. How would I do it with Gparted. ?

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Display Problem?
by mike 20 Apr '13

20 Apr '13

After using Fedora for years mostly through the Gnome Desktop environment, I decided to run up F18 x86_64 on my test bed as a Web Server. This is all command line but, no problem. I got all parts of the LAMP environment installed and running to include my preferred ftp server and was ready to start a WordPress environment, that means a browser. No problem Firefox installed so start Firefox. "Error: No Display Specified" I am not sure where to look for a correction for that or even if I am asking in the right place. Is this a Fedora fix or should I be begging for enlightenment over in the Mozilla neighborhood. Well, I needed to get better at command line anyway! Thanks Mike D.

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OT: IDE 80 connector cables
by Frank Murphy 20 Apr '13

20 Apr '13

I have some IDE Cables are too long for purpose, trying to stuff them into small spaces. Is it ok, to cut the cable after 1st (grey connector) if only going to one device. (it's an old ide based box.) -- Regards, Frank http//www.frankly3d.com

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Re: [Evolution] Problem with evolution passwd
by Aaron Konstam 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

________________________________ From: Patrick O'Callaghan <poc(a)usb.ve> To: Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net> Cc: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Fri, April 19, 2013 5:08:22 PM Subject: Re: [Evolution] Problem with evolution passwd On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 13:27 -0700, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Patrick O'Callaghan <poc(a)usb.ve> > To: evolution-list(a)gnome.org > Sent: Fri, April 19, 2013 3:19:59 PM > Subject: Re: [Evolution] Problem with evolution passwd > > On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 08:02 -0700, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > Suddenly this morning when I open evolution it is asking me for a passwd. >That > > > > has not happened before so > > I am not clear what to do. No passwd I associate with e-mail seems to work. > >What > > > > has gone wrong? > > And how can I fix it? > > Is it a keyring password? Which desktop do you use? Also, you didn't > give the version of Evo you're using. > > poc > > The desktop in Gnome and the version of evolution is: > evolution-3.6.4-3.fc18.x86_64 Once again: is it a keyring password? What does the dialogue box say exactly? poc Roughly it says: Enter the passwd for the user person2 (user akonstam(a)sbcgloblaa.net host: pop.att.yahoo.com) Passwd ........................................... O Enter passwd into your keyring But when I run seahorse I see no passwd in the keyring.

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Problem with cron
by Joe Zeff 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

I have my computers registered with the Linux Counter, and my main desktop machine is supposed to update its status once a week, using a cron job: # added by lico-update.sh version 0.3.14 58 11 * * 4 /home/joe/bin/lico-update.sh -m The permissions on the script are right, and if run manually, it works. This worked fine under Fedora 16, but doesn't now that I'm running F 17. Does anybody know what's happened, or how to find out?

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Re: [Evolution] Problem with evolution passwd
by Aaron Konstam 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

________________________________ From: Patrick O'Callaghan <poc(a)usb.ve> To: evolution-list(a)gnome.org Sent: Fri, April 19, 2013 3:19:59 PM Subject: Re: [Evolution] Problem with evolution passwd On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 08:02 -0700, Aaron Konstam wrote: > Suddenly this morning when I open evolution it is asking me for a passwd. That > has not happened before so > I am not clear what to do. No passwd I associate with e-mail seems to work. >What > > has gone wrong? > And how can I fix it? Is it a keyring password? Which desktop do you use? Also, you didn't give the version of Evo you're using. poc The desktop in Gnome and the version of evolution is: evolution-3.6.4-3.fc18.x86_64 _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list(a)gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list

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F18 OpenJDK 7 caused crash in Java Image Editor -> GTK file requester (fixed with OpenJDK7 update)
by Fernando Cassia 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

Just FYI... The OpenJDK 7 build of Java included in the Fedora 18 LiveCD includes a bug that causes Java Image Editor http://www.jhlabs.com/ie/ (a Paint Shop Pro look-alike written in Pure Java) to crash when trying to open a file. Luckily, after updating to the latest OpenJDK 7, the app works fine!. This is what the console shows after I click on File->Open and select a PNG file... $ java -jar ImageEditor.jar Apr 19, 2013 6:46:22 AM it.tidalwave.imageio.util.Logger info INFO: Installing RAWProcessor... Apr 19, 2013 6:46:22 AM it.tidalwave.imageio.util.Logger info INFO: Installed RAWProcessor RAWProcessor succesfully installed Exception in thread "Thread-7" java.lang.NullPointerException at sun.awt.X11.GtkFileDialogPeer.setFileInternal(GtkFileDialogPeer.java:79) at sun.awt.X11.GtkFileDialogPeer.run(Native Method) at sun.awt.X11.GtkFileDialogPeer.showNativeDialog(GtkFileDialogPeer.java:172) at sun.awt.X11.GtkFileDialogPeer.access$000(GtkFileDialogPeer.java:39) at sun.awt.X11.GtkFileDialogPeer$1.run(GtkFileDialogPeer.java:114) Java version was: $ java -version java version "1.7.0_09-icedtea" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (fedora-2.3.3.fc18.1-i386) OpenJDK Server VM (build 23.2-b09, mixed mode) After updating to openjdk-1.7.0.9-2.3.8.0.fc18.i686.rpm and now it works fine $ java -version java version "1.7.0_09-icedtea" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (fedora-2.3.8.0.fc18-i386) OpenJDK Server VM (build 23.7-b01, mixed mode) [liveuser@localhost ~]$ ...the bug is gone... Just FYI... FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell

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SELinux fails to apply local policy module
by Suvayu Ali 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

Hi, I use CrossOver (based on Wine) to run a Windows game. Everytime CrossOver runs something, I get this avc denial. SELinux is preventing wine-preloader from mmap_zero access on the memprotect . Raw Audit Messages from sealert: type=AVC msg=audit(1365802456.473:13663): avc: denied { mmap_zero } for pid=24734 comm="wine-preloader" scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:wine_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:wine_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=memprotect So I tried following the instructions to generate a local policy module: # grep wine-preloader /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol # semodule -i mypol.pp But this fails like this: libsepol.scope_copy_callback: passanger: Duplicate declaration in module: type/attribute passenger_tmp_t (No such file or directory). libsemanage.semanage_link_sandbox: Link packages failed (No such file or directory). semodule: Failed! So I have two questions, 1. is something missing in my system that the above fails? 2. is there a better way to resolve this other than generating a local policy module? Thanks in advance, PS: I am almost clueless about SELinux, so please bear with me. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.

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selinux-policy syntax errors?
by Zoltan Boszormenyi 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

Hi, I was running "yum upgrade" and these were printed: ... Frissítés : selinux-policy-targeted-3.11.1-90.fc18.noarch 47/139 *************************************************************************************************************************************** Frissítés : selinux-policy-doc-3.11.1-90.fc18.noarch 48/139 Frissítés : selinux-policy-devel-3.11.1-90.fc18.noarch 49/139 /usr/share/selinux/devel/include/services/xserver.if: Syntax error on line 63391 : [type=COLON] /usr/share/selinux/devel/include/services/xserver.if: Syntax error on line 63392 : [type=COLON] /usr/share/selinux/devel/include/services/xserver.if: Syntax error on line 63393 : [type=COLON] /usr/share/selinux/devel/include/services/xserver.if: Syntax error on line 63394 : [type=COLON] /usr/share/selinux/devel/include/services/xserver.if: Syntax error on line 63395 : [type=COLON] /usr/share/selinux/devel/include/services/xserver.if: Syntax error on line 63396 : [type=COLON] /usr/share/selinux/devel/include/services/xserver.if: Syntax error on line 63397 : [type=COLON] /usr/share/selinux/devel/include/services/xserver.if: Syntax error on line 63398 : [type=COLON] /usr/share/selinux/devel/include/services/xserver.if: Syntax error on line 63399 : [type=COLON] /usr/share/selinux/devel/include/services/xserver.if: Syntax error on line 63400 : [type=COLON] /usr/share/selinux/devel/include/services/xserver.if: Syntax error on line 63409 ' [type=SQUOTE] /usr/share/selinux/devel/include/services/xserver.if: Syntax error on line 63431 : [type=COLON] /usr/share/selinux/devel/include/services/xserver.if: Syntax error on line 63432 : [type=COLON] /usr/share/selinux/devel/include/services/xserver.if: Syntax error on line 63433 : [type=COLON] /usr/share/selinux/devel/include/services/xserver.if: Syntax error on line 63434 : [type=COLON] /usr/share/selinux/devel/include/services/xserver.if: Syntax error on line 63435 : [type=COLON] /usr/share/selinux/devel/include/services/xserver.if: Syntax error on line 63436 : [type=COLON] /usr/share/selinux/devel/include/services/xserver.if: Syntax error on line 63437 : [type=COLON] /usr/share/selinux/devel/include/services/xserver.if: Syntax error on line 63438 : [type=COLON] /usr/share/selinux/devel/include/services/xserver.if: Syntax error on line 63439 : [type=COLON] /usr/share/selinux/devel/include/services/xserver.if: Syntax error on line 63440 : [type=COLON] /usr/share/selinux/devel/include/services/xserver.if: Syntax error on line 63458 ' [type=SQUOTE] Frissítés : krb5-workstation-1.10.3-15.fc18.x86_64 50/139 ... These rpms and drpms were downloaded: selinux-policy-devel-3.11.1-87.fc18_3.11.1-90.fc18.noarch.drpm selinux-policy-doc-3.11.1-87.fc18_3.11.1-90.fc18.noarch.drpm selinux-policy-3.11.1-90.fc18.noarch.rpm selinux-policy-targeted-3.11.1-90.fc18.noarch.rpm Should I worry about these messages? BZ#953824 Thanks in advance, Zoltán Böszörményi

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k3b , burning video
by Mickey 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

F18 what video format does k3b burn, mp4 etc. ?

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Python scripting in Fedora
by Gergely Buday 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

Hi, are there Fedora-specific scripting libraries in Python? - Gergely

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cross-platform notes / tomboy / evernote
by SternData 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

I've been using Tomboy for ages to keep track of all sorts of stuff, but now I need to have that same info available on other platforms (e.g., my Mac, iPad, iPhone), so I'm thinking that Evernote is the solution. Have you tried "nixnote"? What are your solutions for making your notes portable? -- -- Steve

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building a Fedora LXC container
by Mihamina Rakotomandimby 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

Hi all I have a CentOS6 host, and would like to have Fedora 18 LXC guests on it. This is mainly because the CPU is not "VT", otherwise I just would have used full virtual. For hosting building CentOS containers, I have this links: http://wiki.1tux.org/wiki/Lxc/Installation/Guest/Centos/6 http://wiki.1tux.org/wiki/Centos6/Installation/Minimal_installation_using_y… I'm looking for the same, but for a Fedora. Would you know some link? -- RMA.

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The Virt-Manager Storage Disks Fedora 18 host.
by Frank Murphy 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

I have 5 physical disks, on which the virt-images are stored. What I have found is for whatever reason, I need to put a new disk or disk-controller card into the host machine. It can changes the order of the disks as seen by the host. So vm's may not start as the physical disk they are on eg: /dev/sdd is now /dev/sdf or or /dev/sdc What can I do to protect myself from this in the future. -- Regards, Frank http//www.frankly3d.com

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OT: Linode doubling RAM
by SternData 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

FYI, if you're doing any hosting on Linode, they've announced a free doubling of RAM for all systems. If you have a system there, put it into the upgrade queue. http://blog.linode.com/2013/04/09/linode-nextgen-ram-upgrade/ -- -- Steve

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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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[OT] ffmpeg buffer underflow
by Mark Haney 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

I know this is slightly off topic, but it's driving me nuts and I want to see what the Fedora community says before I have to hit up the ffmpeg list. I've been using ffmpeg for years converting digital video into DVD format. The basic command line hasn't changed for me: ffmpeg -i [inputfile.avi] -target ntsc-dvd outfile.mpg I've never had a problem with this before, but with the latest ffmpeg I'm getting killed with buffer underflows even on files I have encoded successfully in the past. I've googled for an answer and all the ones I've found have been ~1 year old. Does anyone have an idea or should I pester the ffmpeg list (or whatever list is appropriate).

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Samba 4
by Gabriel VLASIU 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi! Maybe someone can help me with samba 4 (F18). In previous version (samba 3/F17) I had this definition for a share: [xxx] path = /xxx browseable = yes writable = yes ; writable = no printable = no public = yes guest only = yes guest ok = yes create mask = 0664 directory mask = 0775 force group = xxx The important thing here is "create mask". I do not want all files created by users to be executable in linux. The same definition work in samba 4 with the exception of running windoze .exe files from the share. In windoze, there is no read & exec permissions associated with the file. Only read for everyone and read/write for unix user/group. I can manually set the exec flag (from linux or windoze) but this has to be made every time someone copy an executable file. Any chance to revert to the behavior from samba 3? Thank you. Sincerely, Gabriel - -- // Gabriel VLASIU // // OpenGPG-KeyID : 44952F15 // OpenGPG-Fingerprint: 4AC5 7C26 2FE9 02DA 4906 24B2 D32B 7ED7 4495 2F15 // OpenGPG-URL : http://www.vlasiu.net/public.key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJRCntGAAoJENMrftdElS8VccwP/1Bn7zfctWYW86LES/0kE0J/ nig6I927ekX2d+UwUBffUmFgL/G9Pfh4drX7Lrh/HakT/MBerUxZa79URF3v7mLS OmX00areoAHBc1wBo39xHLujNKwwifr4fdgLLFt3hsA0iL6R71l6eDz9tzk7SUPA zpdo6bx9mqX95TdmDHR/q+2Z5ab39hP5AkIRWZwa8jQiSHKn5RN4MyWsTtpFnCkR fM88zmDq72NGXJD9oApd9LLvZbw08rILI7na6IXIcFg+HTowM0IhozPUdqfPtYf9 FgmQP7vg1J38U8Lw7P4n+5/eei/+h0YdMHs1N864aYumNz+Ts+2KU1RLyzr9ZIUg YkcQ6V60WA5Esy2c7p87/TgL+5bRa4pqMhghLXcoBAxRbaqFOY7i2fbb8/+JfU1y lJq5z08M0RXDV0dSwKix1iuGd5cfSfoFroC8J9SXttMZcPwoDVIz5L/arWFFGByo f9m5XD5fPMxOY8vIkGbO62oYhH66gIIelvQXT8g7TiTWgIeTXdOigYEeZQye43Fk Sst9nS/JUpZcXSq8qIErh/WD4nvAOzUg3p0IgwHpmqxIndDNrVD1aol3mooKuv94 gzZWQEU1Z0Tfm5NnS5qrsiU3RnwgkI8qya5xHVFIhzMTUP7ickWNA1myRdBWXDt0 gc7W1TxMJY3xZ2u1Bngx =uDBh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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F18 fails to install on Toshiba Satellite M860
by Abu Attar Musharih 14 Apr '13

14 Apr '13

Hi, I tried but failed to install F18 from Live CD F18 X64 on Toshiba Satellite M860, Processor Core i7, Ram 4G. It is a 64-bit machine and brand new with pre-installed Windows 8. I want to have dual-boot system. The message is the following: [ 0.939290] Couldn't get size: 0x800000000000000e [ 0.939460] EFI: Problem loading in-kernel X.509 certificate (-129) [ 0.939494] EFI: Problem loading in-kernel X.509 certificate (-129) Similar Live CD F18 is bootable on an old machine Toshiba U505, Core i3, RAM 2G without any problem. Could anyone please give some suggestion for solution or any related link? Thanks in advence. regards, AA Musharih

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App. for Instagram in Fedora
by Mickey 14 Apr '13

14 Apr '13

Is there a replacement App for Instagram in Fedora.

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Dell Inspiron 1100 and Intel 82845 video problems
by Kevin Cummings 14 Apr '13

14 Apr '13

A week or so ago, I came into this Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop, and I boot it with the Fedora 17 Live CD. The system booted, but fell into Gnome 3 Fallback mode. At least the system runs, so I installed to Hard-Disk. when it rebooted, I started to have graphics problems. X either failed to start, or it presented me a completely black login screen (I'm not sure which). Through some finagling, I was able to login on a Console Terminal, and I got my WiFi dongle working (The ethernet cable had been also working). I was then able to run yum for all the updates. Great! Now I have 2 kernels installed: 3.3.4-5 from the live CD and 3.8.4-102 from updates. Now I *still* can't get a visible graphical login to display. After some more playing with the /boot/grub2/grub.cfg file, I was able to make the following changes: Changed the system font from TRUE to a real font name. Changed the gfxpayload=keep to 832x624. Now, when I boot either the 3.3.4 kernel, or the 3.3.4 recovery kernel, I have a graphical login screen (at 1024x768 resolution). But, If I try and boot any of the 3.8.4 kernel entries (with the same changes that work for the 3.3.4 boot), I can see a mouse cursor (sometimes in a "subset" of the full screen) that seems to work, but no other visible indication that X is running. Now, here's the kicker: If I position the mouse to where my userid would be listed near the middle of the login screen, click, then wait a couple of seconds, then type my password, My X11 session starts to appear. But, not everything displays perfectly. There are lot's of "dropouts" in the menu texts. For example, there is no visible text on the XFCE applications pulldown (it should say: Applications). In Thunderbird, the top menu bar says: "F ", "Ed ", "V w", "O_ " etc The text in the title bar is OK, as is the text I type in this compose message window. But, the Task Manager buttons are also incomplete (one of them says "T rm -r @kj 3:~"). xrandr lists both the LVDS and the VGA ports at 1024x768, 800x600, & 640x480, and that is running in 1024x768 mode. Any ideas what's wrong? I'd prefer to be running the latest kernel over the older LiveCD kernel.... -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome(a)verizon.net cummings(a)kjchome.homeip.net cummings(a)kjc386.framingham.ma.us Registered Linux User #1232 (http://www.linuxcounter.net/)

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DSoD : Diagonal Screen of Death
by Beartooth 14 Apr '13

14 Apr '13

On Fedora 17 and 18 I sometimes get a display like nothing else I know. It's made up of short horizontal lines, some in color, arranged into long diagonals that cover the screen, with about the angle of a backslash. The little lines in each group are parallel, and there's always a little space between every group and the next. It comes up suddenly, on a key press or a mouse click. Once it comes up, it owns the machine -- nothing the mouse or keyboard can do (that I know of, anyway) has any effect, and I have to hit the reset button. I have yet to discover any correlation with any user action : afaict, some power of darkness arms the trigger, apparently randomly, and the next thing I do brings on the crash. Has anyone else seen this? Diagnosed it? Found any prevention or cure?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.

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configuring fetchmail while accessing internet from behind proxy server
by Ranjan Maitra 14 Apr '13

14 Apr '13

Dear friends, I have looked around a fair bit but have no leads so I am throwing this out here just hoping that someone here can help. I can currently only access the internet using a proxy server and a specified port. My question: what should I change in my .fetchmailrc settings to be able to fetch mail using fetchmail? Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D MARINE AQUARIUM SCREENSAVER - Watch dolphins, sharks & orcas on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/marineaquarium

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GNS3 - Install on fedora 18
by Celso Viana 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

Hi all, I'm trying to install GNS3 (network simulator) in Fedora 18 and missing dependency "python-sip," I can not find. Can anyone help? Thanks -- Celso Vianna BSD User: 51318 http://www.bsdcounter.org Palmas/TO

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unable to connect bluetooth
by Neal Becker 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

My bluetooth headset used to work, but now won't connect. Perhaps related, just updated kernel: 3.8.6-203.fc18.x86_64 I see this in /var/log/messages, perhaps related? Apr 13 18:57:05 nbecker1 bluetoothd[587]: bluetoothd[587]: connect: No route to host (113) Apr 13 18:57:05 nbecker1 bluetoothd[587]: connect: No route to host (113)

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RE:Disability relief
by Alan Gagne 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

> >/ I do always set that, yes, as soon as I find it, and it does > />/ help; but I have yet to find it in Gnome 3 or xfce4. Anybody know where > />/ it lurks? > / > I have not read this entire thread so maybe I am too late to the game. > If you are still looking at how to turn on the bulls-eye around the > mouse pointer > in gnome 3 it comes with gnome tweak tool. Alternatively just use gsettings to turn on in gnome. check current setting: gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse locate-pointer Turn on locate-pointer: gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse locate-pointer true Alan

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Installing texlive under Fedora 17.
by Rolf Turner 12 Apr '13

12 Apr '13

Under Fedora 17 I recently had problems with running latex on a file that previously (under Ubuntu) I had no difficulty with. (A while back I had to switch from Ubuntu to Fedora for reasons that I won't go into here.) I thought that perhaps I might be able to get rid of the flakiness by re-installing texlive. I downloaded the install-tl-unx.tar.gz tarball from http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html unpacked, changed directories appropriately and executed ./install.tl as per instructions. I got an error message: > Can't locate Digest/MD5.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ./tlpkg > /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 > /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl > /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .) at tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line > 199. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 199. > Compilation failed in require at ./install-tl line 53. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./install-tl line 53. I looked at line 53 and it is opaque to me. I presume that I need to update *something* w.r.t. perl, but it is not at all clear to me what I need to do. Doing "yum search perl" gave a plethora of hits. I have no idea which are the relevant ones. Then "yum search perl5" basically turned up perl-pgsql_perl5.x86_64. What has pgsql got to do with the price of eggs in China? Can anyone suggest what I need to do to remedy the problem? I have no idea what extra information is relevant, so I have not tried to provide any. If some Good Samaritan would like more information about my set-up, please feel free to ask and I will do my best to supply it. I am fairly computer/Linux/LaTeX literate, but there are gaping lacunae in my knowledge, so please be patient with me. cheers, Rolf Turner P. S. I originally posted this query to texhax, but was told that this is a Fedora issue not a texlive issue, and that I should post to this list. R. T.

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Command grep -
by Bob Goodwin 12 Apr '13

12 Apr '13

If I do "less syslog.txt | grep DST=17." I get a mixture of outputs containing "17." I would like to do "less syslog.txt | grep 17.0.0.0 - 17.255.255.255" or "less syslog.txt | grep DST=17.0.0.0/8" but I can't find the correct incantation. The man page doesn't seem to tell me how, at least not in a way that I can understand ... Can someone tell me how? Apr 12 01:47:54 localhost user.warn kernel: ACCEPT IN=br0 OUT=vlan1 SRC=192.168.1.44 DST=17.171.4.13 LEN=76 TOS=0x00 PREC=0xC0 TTL=63 ID=39455 PROTO=UDP SPT=123 DPT=123 LEN=56 Apr 12 01:56:31 localhost user.warn kernel: ACCEPT IN=br0 OUT=vlan1 SRC=192.168.1.44 DST=17.171.4.13 LEN=76 TOS=0x00 PREC=0xC0 TTL=63 ID=3578 PROTO=UDP SPT=123 DPT=123 LEN=56 Apr 12 02:01:53 localhost user.warn kernel: ACCEPT IN=br0 OUT=vlan1 SRC=192.168.1.44 DST=174.35.3.56 LEN=64 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=63 ID=61581 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=58672 DPT=80 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 OPT (020405B4010303040101080A21209C400000000004020000) Thanks, Bob -- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box10 Fedora-18 XFCE Linux

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ZDNet Recommends Linux
by Temlakos 12 Apr '13

12 Apr '13

Everyone: This might seem a little beyond scope to most of you, but: Windows XP is approaching its own EOL. Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols released this article: http://www.zdnet.com/five-operating-system-alternatives-to-windows-8-and-xp… at ZDNet: Five OS alternatives to Windows 8 and Windows XP. And they are, in his view: 5. Using AndroidOS or iOS in a tablet. (In his view: /not/ for the "information producer." Looking things up is one thing. But creating the things for others to look up is quite another.) 4. Mac 3. Linux 2. Google ChromeOS, which he describes as the Chrome browser running on a bare-bones Linux desktop and accessing Google's SaaS offerings. 1. Windows 7. Interesting: he doesn't recommend going all the way to Windows 8. And at the bottom, he adds this: (Quote) You should keep in mind that in the long run, it appears Microsoft really does want to switch you over to a Metro-style interface as part of the "evolution" of Windows 8. If that idea gives you hives, then now is the time to start looking for alternatives. (Unquote) Vaughn-Nichols gives this link: http://www.zdnet.com/no-windows-desktop-mode-no-7000013099/ Temlakos

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F18, selinux & sensors
by Cristian Sava 12 Apr '13

12 Apr '13

Hi all, I want to monitor hardware temperatures using sensors. sensors is working ok lunched in a terminal but i want to display the output on the web. So i have this simple php: <?php echo exec('/var/www/cgi-bin/my_sensors.sh'); ?> and my_sensors.sh in cgi-bin: #!/usr/bin/bash /usr/bin/sensors exit Why the problem showed in /var/log/messages (and blank web page)? sensors is supposed to run ok, is it? my_sensors lunch sensors = OK sensors try i2c-adapter = deny Do i miss something? setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/sensors from read access on the directory i2c-adapter. For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 94ef69e6-5109-4c22-b464-ef220948dd6a [root@s194 cgi-bin]# sealert -l 94ef69e6-5109-4c22-b464-ef220948dd6a SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/sensors from read access on the directory i2c-adapter. ***** Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests *************************** If you believe that sensors should be allowed read access on the i2c-adapter directory by default. Then you should report this as a bug. You can generate a local policy module to allow this access. Do allow this access for now by executing: # grep sensors /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol # semodule -i mypol.pp Additional Information: Source Context system_u:system_r:httpd_sys_script_t:s0 Target Context system_u:object_r:sysfs_t:s0 Target Objects i2c-adapter [ dir ] Source sensors Source Path /usr/bin/sensors Port <Unknown> Host s194.central.ucv.ro Source RPM Packages lm_sensors-3.3.2-5.fc18.x86_64 Target RPM Packages Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.11.1-87.fc18.noarch Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted Enforcing Mode Enforcing Host Name s194.central.ucv.ro Platform Linux s194.central.ucv.ro 3.8.6-203.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Apr 9 19:33:01 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 Alert Count 2 First Seen 2013-04-12 15:59:12 EEST Last Seen 2013-04-12 15:59:13 EEST Local ID 94ef69e6-5109-4c22-b464-ef220948dd6a Raw Audit Messages type=AVC msg=audit(1365771553.642:434): avc: denied { read } for pid=5314 comm="sensors" name="i2c-adapter" dev="sysfs" ino=15234 scontext=system_u:system_r:httpd_sys_script_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:sysfs_t:s0 tclass=dir type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1365771553.642:434): arch=x86_64 syscall=openat success=no exit=EACCES a0=ffffffffffffff9c a1=7fff2e427650 a2=90800 a3=0 items=0 ppid=5313 pid=5314 auid=4294967295 uid=48 gid=48 euid=48 suid=48 fsuid=48 egid=48 sgid=48 fsgid=48 ses=4294967295 tty=(none) comm=sensors exe=/usr/bin/sensors subj=system_u:system_r:httpd_sys_script_t:s0 key=(null) Hash: sensors,httpd_sys_script_t,sysfs_t,dir,read audit2allow #============= httpd_sys_script_t ============== allow httpd_sys_script_t sysfs_t:dir read; audit2allow -R require { type httpd_sys_script_t; } #============= httpd_sys_script_t ============== dev_list_sysfs(httpd_sys_script_t) [root@s194 cgi-bin]# C. Sava

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RE: Fedora vs RHEL
by J.Witvliet＠mindef.nl 12 Apr '13

12 Apr '13

-----Original Message----- From: users-bounces(a)lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Steve Searle Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 12:15 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: Fedora vs RHEL Around 11:09am on Friday, April 12, 2013 (UK time), Mike Dwiggins scrawled: > My problem is that I am trying to sell my Boss on Fedora! He refuses > to let us use CentOS or to pay for RHEL ( Yes cheapskate). But if I > can show some comparison to RHEL I can sell him on Fedora. > > My whole shop run home servers and we all use Fedora. We just need > something from somewhere to convince him! I would think it madness to use Fedora in a commercial activity, the upgrade cycle is to frequent and the risks of failure due to the "bleeding edge" to great. What advantage do you think Fedora would give you over whatever you currently use. If you can't convince him to use RHEL/CentOS then I think it wrong to convince him Fedora would be better. Obviously I have know knowledge of your actual business. -----Original Message----- I wouldn't do it on moral grounds: If you want to play/learn/experiment/contribute: use fedora by all means! If you make a living from it / other people depend on it: use RHEL Hans ______________________________________________________________________ Dit bericht kan informatie bevatten die niet voor u is bestemd. Indien u niet de geadresseerde bent of dit bericht abusievelijk aan u is toegezonden, wordt u verzocht dat aan de afzender te melden en het bericht te verwijderen. De Staat aanvaardt geen aansprakelijkheid voor schade, van welke aard ook, die verband houdt met risico's verbonden aan het electronisch verzenden van berichten. This message may contain information that is not intended for you. If you are not the addressee or if this message was sent to you by mistake, you are requested to inform the sender and delete the message. The State accepts no liability for damage of any kind resulting from the risks inherent in the electronic transmission of messages.

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Testing.
by Rolf Turner 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Apologies for the noise. My previous message to this list seems not to have gone through; wanted to check/test. cheers, Rolf Turner

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Off Topic - Block iCloud -
by Bob Goodwin 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Can anyone tell me how to block Apple iCloud in my router? I've tried filtering icloud.com as mentioned in Google but it still downloads at about 3GB per hour, a rate that would use up my month's allocation in about 8 hours! There seems to be a dearth of information on Google on the subject although it is a recognized problem. Presently I am forced to block all the Apple devices on my LAN. I would like to be more selective and allow them other functions, e-mail and browsing, etc. They can use the 3g/4g system for their iCloud needs. iCloud is really a very inefficient solution to a problem I didn't know existed until my daughter subscribed and put a half dozen devices on it. Any information or suggestions will be appreciated. Bob -- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box10 Fedora-18 XFCE Linux

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XDG_CONFIG_HOME
by Jonathan Ryshpan 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Font control files and a bunch of other stuff for per-user configuration is supposed to be stored relative to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME . I would assume that this is be set by default by either a standard login script, or by the window manager, which in my case is KDE. But it isn't. Is this a problem? If it is a problem, how do I fix it? Thanks - jon

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RE:presto
by Alan Gagne 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

> NoGo : yum-presto has been obsoleted. Don't know what to tell you. I have two F18 boxes that are both using the presto plugin for yum. Linux dw-agagne 3.8.5-201.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 28 21:01:19 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Alan

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[OT] How to get all packages belonging to a group?
by Joachim Backes 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Hi all, is there a method to list all packages belonging to an installed group? For example, "yum grouplist" lists LibreOffice as installed group, and I want to know which rpm's are belonging to this group (not by using "rpm -qa libreoffice*"). Kind regards Joachim Backes -- Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat): Kernel-3.9.0-0.rc6.git0.1.fc19.x86_64 Joachim Backes <joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de> https://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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Re: Re: f18 moodle setup
by Virágh János 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

On 04/10/2013 10:35 AM, Remi Collet wrote: >... >> /var/www/moodle(/.*)? >> gen_context(system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_rw_content_t,s0) > >Why this ? >Does we really need to allow apache to "write" the moodle web pages ? Yes, we do - during the *configuration* of moodle either using the web route, which is broken in F18 :( or running some php configuration scripts from the command line as the apache user. This is the recommended way according to the official moodle docs. BUT which scripts in which sequence? - that was my original question.

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RE:presto
by Alan Gagne 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

> starting fc18 presto-plugin has disappeared > I would like to get yum out of this mode. > Can't find a conf switch or trick to do that in man or google. > Is this another choice removed from "Linux,the world of choice"? > Or can I get a hint from here? Try install presto yum plugin. yum install yum-presto [dw-agagne ~]# yum info yum-pesto Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit Error: No matching Packages to list [root@dw-agagne ~]# yum info yum-presto Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit Installed Packages Name : yum-presto Arch : noarch Version : 0.9.0 Release : 1.fc18 Size : 66 k Repo : installed From repo : fedora Summary : Presto plugin for yum URL : http://www.lesbg.com/jdieter/presto/ License : GPLv2+ Description : Yum-presto is a plugin for yum that looks for deltarpms rather than rpms : whenever they are available. This has the potential of saving a lot of : bandwidth when downloading updates. : : A Deltarpm is the difference between two rpms. If you already have foo-1.0 : installed and foo-1.1 is available, yum-presto will download the deltarpm : for foo-1.0 => 1.1 rather than the full foo-1.1 rpm, and then build the full : foo-1.1 package from your installed foo-1.0 and the downloaded deltarpm. Alan

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Dracut on reboot
by Richard Vickery 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

Hi Gang, A number of times f18 has become stuck for so long that I felt it necessary to call the command reboot. Certain times a dracut command line shows up and I call systemctl, which shows what it does, and with little-to-no current technical training, I have little understanding of what I am looking for. Is there some way to call systemctl, get the same information, and paste this information here in an email for someone to look at? and perhaps let me know what to look for? Thanks Richard

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f18 moodle setup
by Virágh János 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

After #yum install moodle what's the proper way of configuring and starting moodle on Fedora 18? The web-based install doesn't work because of the missing install.php file: # grep install.php moodle.spec rm config-dist.php install.php filter/tex/mimetex.* filter/tex/README.mimetex The command-line alternatives from the "official documentation" http://docs.moodle.org/23/en/Installing_Moodle die with various (selinux, file permission, locale or other) errors... Does there exist some step-by-step fedora-specific documentation? J. Virágh

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Re: Laptop disconnects network when is closed
by J.Witvliet＠mindef.nl 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

(Bb forcing top-posting) Sound very much like hibernating.... How about writing a litle bash script, that writes every couple of seconds to a file/syslog? That way you can verify wether or not your system is still alive after closing the lid. Steps further depend on the result. ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- Van: Todor Petkov [mailto:zakk@online.bg] Verzonden: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 09:25 AM W. Europe Standard Time Aan: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> Onderwerp: Re: Laptop disconnects network when is closed On 10/04/2013 10:17 AM, Tim wrote: > Does WiFi reception work when the lid is horizontal? The antenna is > usually in the lid, and usually needs to be vertical. You can test > that > by picking up the laptop and rotating it with the lid open. > > If that's not the reason, have a look through /var/log/messages to > see > if anything is still being triggered by the lid closure. Sorry, I forgot to mention, that I am using a cable connection. However, I looked in the logs and then google showed https://jamielinux.com/articles/2013/01/disable-suspend-on-fedora-18/ Regards, -- 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 ______________________________________________________________________ Dit bericht kan informatie bevatten die niet voor u is bestemd. Indien u niet de geadresseerde bent of dit bericht abusievelijk aan u is toegezonden, wordt u verzocht dat aan de afzender te melden en het bericht te verwijderen. De Staat aanvaardt geen aansprakelijkheid voor schade, van welke aard ook, die verband houdt met risico's verbonden aan het electronisch verzenden van berichten. This message may contain information that is not intended for you. If you are not the addressee or if this message was sent to you by mistake, you are requested to inform the sender and delete the message. The State accepts no liability for damage of any kind resulting from the risks inherent in the electronic transmission of messages.

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Laptop disconnects network when is closed
by Todor Petkov 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

Hello, after upgrading from F17 to 18 via fedup, my laptop disconnects the network after the lid is closed. I have tried to edit some stuff with dconf-editor, like lid-close-ac-action, sleep-inactive-ac-type (they are with "nothing" value now), but it still goes in sleep mode. Can anyone give me some advice what else to be changed, so the PC can keep its connectivity when the lid is closed? Regards,

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Re: FedUp
by Phil Dobbin 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

On 04/09/2013 11:08 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: > > On Apr 9, 2013 6:54 AM, "Phil Dobbin" <bukowskiscat(a)gmail.com > <mailto:bukowskiscat@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> On 04/09/2013 05:39 AM, Thomas Dineen wrote: >> >> > What brand of VM??? >> >> KVM running on Fedora 17 64-bit on a Lenovo ThinkCentre. I also used KVM >> on a Poweredge 860 running CentOS 6.4 64-bit but its graphics card >> couldn't handle the latest Gnome (the same thing happened on OpenSUSE > 12.3). >> >> Works fine on a minimal/server though on the Dell. [snip for brevity] > What is the exact fedup command call? Is it: > > fedup f18->f19 > > or is there some text some other choose that one adds within this code? Try: <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp> Also, I don't know if you're aware but this came to my Inbox rather than the Fedora list. It's better to keep any questions directed to the list. Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using CentOS 5.8 & 6.3, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora Beefy & Spherical, Lubuntu 12.10, OS X Snow Leopard & Ubuntu Precise & Quantal GnuPG Key : http://www.horse-latitudes.co.uk/publickey.asc

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How to restore MBR on a separate /boot partition?
by Dan Thurman 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Since I was unable to install F18, I would like to revert back to F17 that I have restored from backups, the following partitions: / (root) /dev/sda10 /boot /dev/sda9 What I have left to do is to restore the MBR on /dev/sda9 /boot partition. I have a separate MBR installed on /dev/sda drive which is the master MBR for multiboot OS, which is working fine. What steps can I use to accomplish this?

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Re: Re: f18 moodle setup
by Virágh János 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

> Hi Janos, > > Try this. > http://pkgs.org/fedora-18/fedora-i386/moodle-2.3.3-1.fc18.noarch.rpm.html > > HTH, > > Zoltan Installing with yum is OK, but what to do after?

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getting back from a black screen
by Richard Vickery 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Hi, It happens often enough that I leave the computer long enough for it to blacken the screen. Is there a combination key stroke to get x back? Thanks. Richard

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FedUp
by Phil Dobbin 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Hi, all. I've been away for some weeks & am now back so I'm looking at possibilities for upgrading 17 -> 18 seeing as 17 will be EOL in around eight to ten weeks. After the initial problems with FedUp, I read last night over on Bugzilla about its progress & the latest testing (which looks like it's going to go stable next week) is looking pretty solid. So the question is, is everybody been happy with the upgrade process via FedUp lately? Any help appreciated. Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using CentOS 5.8 & 6.3, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora Beefy & Spherical, Lubuntu 12.10, OS X Snow Leopard & Ubuntu Precise & Quantal GnuPG Key : http://www.horse-latitudes.co.uk/publickey.asc

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Disability relief
by Beartooth 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

I need cursor symbols that my antiquated eyeballs can spot even through trifocals. Last time I had a machine running CentOS (6.2 iirc) I had managed to get a big yellow arrow to show the mouse cursor. It was wonderful. Now I have machines running Fedora (17 & 18) and Puppy (5.0) -- and even with eyes on two panels I have an awful time spotting the mouse cursor. Can anyone tell me a way to get my arrow back?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.

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keyboard
by Patrick Dupre 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Hello, I am using a french alternative keyboard, but the right CRTL key is not working. I would like that it does the same thing than the left CRTL. in the layout this key apears as Level5 S How can I configure this keyboard? Thank. -- ====================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ || email: pdupre(a)kegtux.org Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale || Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 || Fax: 03 28 65 82 44 189A, avenue Maurice Schumann || 59140 Dunkerque, France ======================================================================

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RE:Disability relief
by Alan Gagne 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

> I do always set that, yes, as soon as I find it, and it does > help; but I have yet to find it in Gnome 3 or xfce4. Anybody know where > it lurks? I have not read this entire thread so maybe I am too late to the game. If you are still looking at how to turn on the bulls-eye around the mouse pointer in gnome 3 it comes with gnome tweak tool. Alan

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What is Fedora 18 acpi_osi default? Or, seeking consistent power management.
by Noah Cutler 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Have been working out some kinks with recently acquired Dell M4700 Precision workstation. Out of the box everything just works (impressive compared to Fedora 14), except for Nvidia K1000M chip which insists on max power mode (heat) in multi-head setup (Linus gave them the finger; I'd prefer that they shut up...my laptop fans). So I took a risk and flashed the vBios, underclocking the chip significantly. Fantastic success, machine is absolutely quiet now, can run all day under light load and fans never go on, awesome stuff...with one caveat: for some reason after a suspend/resume power management goes awry and the Nvidia chip heats up, triggering dreaded fan-on-off cycle over & over & over (not as bad as before the vBIOS mod, but highly annoying regardless). The only way to get out of the heat loop is to restart X or restart the machine, and then light load quiet until next suspend/resume. Looking through /var/log I see that my kernel boot flag pcie_aspm=force is picked up, but later is rejected: PCIe ASPM is forcibly enabled > [0.609409] pci_root PNP0A08:00: ACPI _OSC support notification failed, > disabling PCIe ASPM > [1.613536] pci 0000:00:01.0: ASPM: Could not configure common clock (this > is the Nvidia chip, BTW) > [1.619912] ACPI _OSC control for PCIe not granted, disabling ASPM > Thought maybe there's a buggy DSDT at play, so decompiled existing dsdt and fixed the lone error and handful of warnings. Reran grub with modified dsdt.aml and restarted. Same deal, ASPM seems to be somewhat broken no matter what I do. So, how does Fedora identify itself to underlying firmware? Assume acpi_osi is Linux. I added that and "Windows 2012" as test kernel params, but neither appeared to do anything particularly useful. Can't underclock the Nvidia chip much more, so am hoping to find a way to get reliable power management post-resume from suspend as something is going off the rails at this time and not on system start/login. Thanks for ideas.

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RE:getting back from a black screen
by Alan Gagne 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

> On 04/08/2013 12:31 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > >/ > />/ [harry at srv-rhsoft <https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users>:~]$ lspci | grep -i graphic > / > AHA! Two ways to do it. How Unix! And let's add a twist to find out your drivers. [dw-agagne ~]# lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1251 (rev a1) then using the bus:slot.func returned from previous command. dw-agagne ~]# lspci -s 01:00.0 -k 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1251 (rev a1) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 204a Kernel driver in use: nouveau Alan

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presto
by Henk Breimer 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

starting fc18 presto-plugin has disappeared I would like to get yum out of this mode. Can't find a conf switch or trick to do that in man or google. Is this another choice removed from "Linux,the world of choice"? Or can I get a hint from here? Thanks, Henk

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Online backup providers
by Joseph L. Casale 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Anyone have any experience with jungledisk? They offer a Linux client and have pretty cheap rates for large volumes of data. We are retiring a private colocated backup and hoping to migrate to a commercial online solution. Of the few that support Linux, this one looks pretty decent at first glance. Thanks, jlc

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Unable to install F18 into an existing linux partitions.
by Dan Thurman 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

I was not able to install F18 via LiveCD/Anaconda as it appears to insist on (unformatted) free space. I was able to install F17 with anaconda, which allowed me to specify the /boot and / software destination having two partitions wiped out by newly reformatting them while installing. In F18, one has a choice to choose LVM, BRFS(?), or Partition schemes, so I choose the Partition scheme, checked that I wanted no help, to manually modify and/or define the software destination and hovering the cursor over 2nd button, the highlight says: "Please wait... software metadata is being loaded" and nothing happens for over 30 minutes of waiting. I do not want to use the 'reclaim' button because this might mess up the partition table and screw the entire disk. I also noted that while waiting, I was able to set the locale, but not allowed to change the date, time nor 12/24 hour selections, they are greyed out, even though I was able to do this on the time/date menubar but this has nothing to do with anaconda. So, what can I do at this point?

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F18: Gnome-user-share
by antonio montagnani 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Did anybody succeed to have Gnome-user-share working?? It was working on F17, now I cannot share any folder, actually I do not see any shared machine on Network. Any hint?? -- Antonio M Skype: amontag52 Linux Fedora F18(Spherical Cow) on Acer 5720 http://lugsaronno.altervista.org http://www.campingmonterosa.com

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/var/log/messages ful of rpc.statd select: Bad file descriptor lines
by Steve Searle 07 Apr '13

07 Apr '13

On three or four occasions now on one of my Fedora 18 machines warns that I am running out of space on /var (it has its own partition). This is due to /var/log/messages being full of rpc.statd[1282]: my_svc_run() - select: Bad file descriptor messages - these are repeated many times a second. Deleting /var/log/messages gets round this as a work around, but can anyone suggest what I can do to investigate/fix this? Thanks Steve -- Website: www.stevesearle.com 17:41:12 up 22 days, 15:59, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

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Sad computer with gnome: what to do ?
by Theodore Papadopoulo 07 Apr '13

07 Apr '13

Since several weeks, I get regularly thei Sad Computer icon which tells me in disconnect and re-connect. But that does not work (and that is true with every variants of gnome installed on my computer). In the same situation KDE seems to work well even though that's not my favorite setup. All this seems to be related to switching between a configuration where the laptop is docked and has two screens and a stadalone configuration where the internal panel is the only screen. When I first had the problem, I was unable to login, rebooted and then had the trouble. With time, I learning that I could take a console, kill the screensaver and then call the gnome-control-center to switch the display, but this does not solve the problem completely as it still happens sometimes after a while. I have tried to remove my .gnome[-2] stuff and various other config stuff such as monitors.xml. I have looked at the various log (messages, Xorg, ... without any clue at the issue). So I'm asking advice in how to analyse and cure definitely this problem. Any idea ? Thank's Theo. PS: Another stange behavior on my computer is that I often get a no more processes situation in cases I have a relatively low number of processes (~320). I strongly suspect chrome, but it is difficult to be sure as the system information given by ps seems reasonnable. I do not think this is related (except maybe on the fact that it may create the situation in the beginning, but since the sad computer remain after reboots, what is corrupted remains even after the process problem is solved, PS2: hum and I also must say that I use the nvidia drivers. I know this is not the best setup to ask for help here, but this is mandated by my company, and I believe that the problem is more to be found somewhere in the gnome configuration files than in some drivers settings. PS3: Generally speaking, gnome works great (even though some interface choices might or might not please people), but when it fails it is sometimes very difficult to understand where the problem is.... This is true for some small problems (failure in applets at start which seems realted to timings problems and are easily solved by re-logging), but in the case of this sad computer, I believe that more information should be provided on what fails (or at least where to look for that information).

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FC18 kernel command lines
by Bill Davidsen 06 Apr '13

06 Apr '13

Two simple suggestions for install, upgrade, etc. 1 - fix the kernel command line options, I think one was console font, replace the ones which the kernel labels as "obsolete" and/or "archaic" with something which works silently with the kernels installed. 2 - for reasons religious, political, or egotistical, Fedora doesn't use working vendor video drivers for chips sets identified as nVidia, ATI, Radeon, etc. Would it be too much to ask to always without fail provide a boot line using VESA driver for display, and rather than do whatever is current, use a screen size large enough to hold some minimum number of characters? The install on one netbook picked 320x200 for screen resolution, and it seems the vga= option is no longer supported (maybe just vga=ask). In any case, the default kernel drivers for these video cards only work right on a subset of chips, and a lot of users don't know, and don't want to know, how to edit the kernel command line in the middle of the boot sequence to overcome the issue. 3 - I know of no way to tell if "nomodeset" will make things better or worse, so I make no suggestion other than users who know how to edit the kernel command line can try inverting that option (remove if present, add if not) if all else fails to initialize the video at boot. I'm sure these suggestions for improvement will be flamed as criticism, followed by the users of the subset of working chips claiming that the drivers are fixed because it works on their hardware. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com> We are not out of the woods yet, but we know the direction and have taken the first step. The steps are many, but finite in number, and if we persevere we will reach our destination. -me, 2010

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RE: Avoiding LVM -
by J.Witvliet＠mindef.nl 06 Apr '13

06 Apr '13

-----Original Message----- From: users-bounces(a)lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Craig White Sent: zaterdag 6 april 2013 3:45 To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Avoiding LVM - On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 12:41 -0500, Matthew J. Roth wrote: > Joe Zeff wrote: > > > > On 04/04/2013 08:45 AM, Bill Oliver wrote: > > > > > > I take my laptop on the road a lot, and I have work stuff on it I > > > don't want the world to see. I don't encrypt the whole disk, but > > > I have an encrypted partitiion, and keep sensitive data on it. > > > > You might also consider keeping it on a flash drive with an ext4 > > file system, as most people who'd find it wouldn't know how to read it. > > > As a warning to future readers, this is just bad advice because then > the files would be unencrypted on a device that is much easier to lose. ---- and one that has a substantially higher likelihood of failure than a hard drive. It was a bad recommendation on so many levels. Anyone who entrusts their only copy of a valued file to a USB flash drive is certain to learn a lesson the hard way. Craig -----Original Message----- So, a better advise is to simply encrypt the entire disk, And to keep sensitive info on an _also_ encrypted mem-stick. If you worry about failures (loosing) the mem stick, perhaps you can put the encrypted image on your own web-site... Or keep an "dd"-copy of the stick in "/tmp/random.tmp" Security has its price, the more secure you want to feel, the higher the costs, or efforts. Hw ______________________________________________________________________ Dit bericht kan informatie bevatten die niet voor u is bestemd. Indien u niet de geadresseerde bent of dit bericht abusievelijk aan u is toegezonden, wordt u verzocht dat aan de afzender te melden en het bericht te verwijderen. De Staat aanvaardt geen aansprakelijkheid voor schade, van welke aard ook, die verband houdt met risico's verbonden aan het electronisch verzenden van berichten. This message may contain information that is not intended for you. If you are not the addressee or if this message was sent to you by mistake, you are requested to inform the sender and delete the message. The State accepts no liability for damage of any kind resulting from the risks inherent in the electronic transmission of messages.

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Gnome dies just before login screen F18
by Kevin 06 Apr '13

06 Apr '13

I been having Gnome fail at the login screen intermittently since I reinstalled a few weeks ago. I read that `setenforce 0` should fix the problem and it did for about a week, but this time I'm really stuck. `getenforce` returns Permissive and the problem persists. In the attached paste from /var/log/messages I tried google for "gnome-shell.desktop respawning too quickly" and most of the solutions involve graphics cards I don't have. Also, the error I see on the screen is the gnome sad face. thanks in advance for any ideas 3.8.5-201.fc18.x86_64 http://pastebin.com/hUsewVjz Kevin DON'T PANIC

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mailto links from Chrome w/Thunderbird
by SternData 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

If I click on a mailto link in Firefox, Thunderbird opens up a new email with "user(a)domain.com" in the address field. If I click on the same link in Chrome, Thunderbird displays "mailto:user@domain.com" in the address field. Anyone have an idea where in Chrome I might fix this? -- -- Steve

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RE: Avoiding LVM -
by J.Witvliet＠mindef.nl 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

-----Original Message----- I think I can handle the next install without LVM. -----Original Message----- Afaicr LVM is the only option if you want to encrypt your entire disk. Hw ______________________________________________________________________ Dit bericht kan informatie bevatten die niet voor u is bestemd. Indien u niet de geadresseerde bent of dit bericht abusievelijk aan u is toegezonden, wordt u verzocht dat aan de afzender te melden en het bericht te verwijderen. De Staat aanvaardt geen aansprakelijkheid voor schade, van welke aard ook, die verband houdt met risico's verbonden aan het electronisch verzenden van berichten. This message may contain information that is not intended for you. If you are not the addressee or if this message was sent to you by mistake, you are requested to inform the sender and delete the message. The State accepts no liability for damage of any kind resulting from the risks inherent in the electronic transmission of messages.

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esint10.pfb
by Patrick Dupre 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

Hello, I got an error when I compile an old latex file: !pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file esint10.pfb): cannot open Type 1 font file for re I have texlive-esint.noarch installed. which install the mf file: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/esint/esint10.mf but not esint10.pfb. How can I get this font? Thank -- ====================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ || email: pdupre(a)kegtux.org Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale || Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 || Fax: 03 28 65 82 44 189A, avenue Maurice Schumann || 59140 Dunkerque, France ======================================================================

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fedora18 stopped suspending on lid closed
by Aleksandar Kostadinov 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

From some time my fedora stopped suspending when lid is closed. I see in system log that lid event is detected. So I'm wondering what can be the cause. Suspend works when I choose to suspend clicking on the XFCE power applet. Pls keep me in cc in replies. Thanks!

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wifi issue on F17, eeepc 901
by Fred Smith 04 Apr '13

04 Apr '13

Hi all! This has been going on for a few months now, but I haven't gotten around to asking about it yet, so here goes: I've got F17 on my eeepc 901, where it works quite well. But after it had been on that machine for a while (a month? two? I can't say) it started exhibiting a problem: using the FN keys, turn off wireless networking, then turn it back on. the blue idiot light shows it's on, but Fedora never re-connects the wlan. in fact, it still thinks the wireless hardware is turned off, as it would appear, since clicking the NM icon does not even show any wlans at all. a quick reboot/power cycle fixes it. it's mostly not an issue, but sometimes becomes a nuisance, since turning off wireless networking can be a big battery-life-enhancer. Anyone got clues? here's some entries from /var/log/messages thath I think correspond to turning it off then attempting to turn it back on. Some of the entries around 20:46:01 say something aboujt the PCI device being absent, so that probably tells us something useful...: Apr 4 20:18:59 eeepcbox kernel: [ 2697.351491] input: Logitech USB Receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3 -2/3-2:1.0/input/input10 Apr 4 20:18:59 eeepcbox kernel: [ 2697.354256] hid-generic 0003:046D:C51B.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Lo gitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-2/input0 Apr 4 20:18:59 eeepcbox kernel: [ 2697.371261] hid-generic 0003:046D:C51B.0002: hiddev0,hidraw1: USB HID v1.11 Device [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-2/input1 Apr 4 20:18:59 eeepcbox mtp-probe: checking bus 3, device 2: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-2" Apr 4 20:18:59 eeepcbox mtp-probe: bus: 3, device: 2 was not an MTP device Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.590137] wlan0: deauthenticating from bc:ae:c5:c3:60:04 by local choice (reason= 3) Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.598188] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox NetworkManager[716]: <info> WiFi now disabled by radio killswitch Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox NetworkManager[716]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: activated -> unavailable (reason 'no ne') [100 20 0] Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox avahi-daemon[760]: Interface wlan0.IPv4 no longer relevant for mDNS. Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox avahi-daemon[760]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface wlan0.IPv4 with address 192.168.2 .117. Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox dhclient[1905]: receive_packet failed on wlan0: Network is down Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox avahi-daemon[760]: Withdrawing address record for fe80::215:afff:febc:ba13 on wlan0. Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.637132] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated: Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.637144] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max _eirp) Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.637153] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm ) Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.637162] cfg80211: (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm ) Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.637169] cfg80211: (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm ) Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.637177] cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm ) Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.637185] cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm ) Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.637240] cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: US Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox avahi-daemon[760]: Withdrawing address record for 192.168.2.117 on wlan0. Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox avahi-daemon[760]: Withdrawing workstation service for wlan0. Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.655253] cfg80211: Regulatory domain changed to country: US Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.655264] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max _eirp) Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.655273] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2700 mBm ) Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.655280] cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 1700 mBm ) Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.655288] cfg80211: (5250000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm ) Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.655296] cfg80211: (5490000 KHz - 5600000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm ) Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.655304] cfg80211: (5650000 KHz - 5710000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm ) Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.655312] cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 3000 mBm ) Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.655318] cfg80211: (57240000 KHz - 63720000 KHz @ 2160000 KHz), (N/A, 4000 mBm ) Apr 4 20:45:01 eeepcbox NetworkManager[716]: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason 'none') [0] Apr 4 20:18:59 eeepcbox kernel: [ 2697.351491] input: Logitech USB Receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3 -2/3-2:1.0/input/input10 Apr 4 20:18:59 eeepcbox kernel: [ 2697.354256] hid-generic 0003:046D:C51B.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Lo gitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-2/input0 Apr 4 20:18:59 eeepcbox kernel: [ 2697.371261] hid-generic 0003:046D:C51B.0002: hiddev0,hidraw1: USB HID v1.11 Device [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-2/input1 Apr 4 20:18:59 eeepcbox mtp-probe: checking bus 3, device 2: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-2" Apr 4 20:18:59 eeepcbox mtp-probe: bus: 3, device: 2 was not an MTP device Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.590137] wlan0: deauthenticating from bc:ae:c5:c3:60:04 by local choice (reason= 3) Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.598188] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox NetworkManager[716]: <info> WiFi now disabled by radio killswitch Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox NetworkManager[716]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: activated -> unavailable (reason 'no ne') [100 20 0] Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox avahi-daemon[760]: Interface wlan0.IPv4 no longer relevant for mDNS. Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox avahi-daemon[760]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface wlan0.IPv4 with address 192.168.2 .117. Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox dhclient[1905]: receive_packet failed on wlan0: Network is down Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox avahi-daemon[760]: Withdrawing address record for fe80::215:afff:febc:ba13 on wlan0. Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.637132] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated: Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.637144] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max _eirp) Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.637153] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm ) Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.637162] cfg80211: (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm ) Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.637169] cfg80211: (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm ) Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.637177] cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm ) Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.637185] cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm ) Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.637240] cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: US Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox avahi-daemon[760]: Withdrawing address record for 192.168.2.117 on wlan0. Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox avahi-daemon[760]: Withdrawing workstation service for wlan0. Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.655253] cfg80211: Regulatory domain changed to country: US Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.655264] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max _eirp) Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.655273] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2700 mBm ) Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.655280] cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 1700 mBm ) Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.655288] cfg80211: (5250000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm ) Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.655296] cfg80211: (5490000 KHz - 5600000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm ) Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.655304] cfg80211: (5650000 KHz - 5710000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm ) Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.655312] cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 3000 mBm ) Apr 4 20:45:00 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4258.655318] cfg80211: (57240000 KHz - 63720000 KHz @ 2160000 KHz), (N/A, 4000 mBm ) Apr 4 20:45:01 eeepcbox NetworkManager[716]: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason 'none') [0] Apr 4 20:45:01 eeepcbox NetworkManager[716]: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason 'none') [0] Apr 4 20:45:01 eeepcbox NetworkManager[716]: <info> (wlan0): canceled DHCP transaction, DHCP client pid 1905 Apr 4 20:45:01 eeepcbox NetworkManager[716]: <warn> (3) failed to find interface name for index Apr 4 20:45:01 eeepcbox NetworkManager[716]: nm_system_iface_flush_routes: assertion `iface != NULL' failed Apr 4 20:45:01 eeepcbox NetworkManager[716]: <warn> (3) failed to find interface name for index Apr 4 20:45:01 eeepcbox NetworkManager[716]: <warn> (3) failed to find interface name for index Apr 4 20:45:01 eeepcbox NetworkManager[716]: (nm-system.c:769):nm_system_iface_get_flags: runtime check failed: (iface != NULL) Apr 4 20:45:01 eeepcbox NetworkManager[716]: <error> [1365122701.342927] [nm-system.c:771] nm_system_iface_get_flags(): (unknown): failed to get interface link object Apr 4 20:45:01 eeepcbox NetworkManager[716]: <info> radio killswitch /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.3/0000:01:00.0/ieee80211/phy0/rfkill2 disappeared Apr 4 20:45:01 eeepcbox NetworkManager[716]: <info> (wlan0): now unmanaged Apr 4 20:45:01 eeepcbox NetworkManager[716]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: unavailable -> unmanaged (reason 'removed') [20 10 36] Apr 4 20:45:01 eeepcbox NetworkManager[716]: <info> (wlan0): cleaning up... Apr 4 20:45:01 eeepcbox NetworkManager[716]: <warn> (3) failed to find interface name for index Apr 4 20:45:01 eeepcbox NetworkManager[716]: (nm-system.c:769):nm_system_iface_get_flags: runtime check failed: (iface != NULL) Apr 4 20:45:01 eeepcbox NetworkManager[716]: <error> [1365122701.345881] [nm-system.c:771] nm_system_iface_get_flags(): (unknown): failed to get interface link object Apr 4 20:45:01 eeepcbox dbus-daemon[804]: dbus[804]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' (using servicehelper) Apr 4 20:45:01 eeepcbox dbus[804]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' (using servicehelper) Apr 4 20:45:01 eeepcbox dbus-daemon[804]: dbus[804]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' Apr 4 20:45:01 eeepcbox dbus[804]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' Apr 4 20:45:01 eeepcbox systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit mdmonitor-takeover.service, ignoring: Unit mdmonitor-takeover.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status mdmonitor-takeover.service' for details. Apr 4 20:45:01 eeepcbox systemd[1]: PID file /run/sendmail.pid not readable (yet?) after start. Apr 4 20:45:01 eeepcbox chronyd[813]: Source 208.69.120.201 offline Apr 4 20:45:01 eeepcbox chronyd[813]: Source 96.44.142.5 offline Apr 4 20:45:01 eeepcbox chronyd[813]: Source 216.45.57.38 offline Apr 4 20:45:01 eeepcbox chronyd[813]: Source 199.102.46.72 offline Apr 4 20:45:01 eeepcbox systemd[1]: PID 1964 read from file /run/sm-client.pid does not exist. Apr 4 20:46:41 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4359.079852] eeepc_laptop: BIOS says wireless lan is unblocked, but the pci device is absent Apr 4 20:46:41 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4359.079868] eeepc_laptop: skipped wireless hotplug as probably inappropriate for this model Apr 4 20:46:41 eeepcbox NetworkManager[716]: <info> WiFi now enabled by radio killswitch Apr 4 20:46:41 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4359.179813] eeepc_laptop: BIOS says wireless lan is unblocked, but the pci device is absent Apr 4 20:46:41 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4359.179822] eeepc_laptop: skipped wireless hotplug as probably inappropriate for this model Apr 4 20:46:42 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4360.286865] eeepc_laptop: BIOS says wireless lan is unblocked, but the pci device is absent Apr 4 20:46:42 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4360.286880] eeepc_laptop: skipped wireless hotplug as probably inappropriate for this model Apr 4 20:46:42 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4360.386869] eeepc_laptop: BIOS says wireless lan is unblocked, but the pci device is absent Apr 4 20:46:42 eeepcbox kernel: [ 4360.386883] eeepc_laptop: skipped wireless hotplug as probably inappropriate for this model -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- "And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever." ------------------------------- Isaiah 9:7 (niv) ------------------------------

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auditd is afiled how to enable
by Prashanth Kasula 04 Apr '13

04 Apr '13

Hi all, For sshd service there is a problem in enabling auditd service.if any one knows the process please let us know. Thanks Prashanth

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Avoiding LVM -
by Bob Goodwin 04 Apr '13

04 Apr '13

On 02/04/13 14:13, Joe Zeff wrote: As a home user, I don't need to resize things dynamically, and LVM is the solution to a problem I don't have. Over the last couple of years I've managed to install Fedora a few times minus LVM but I never seem to get the directory structure optimized, in fact far from it. What I need is an example of a simple directory tree with the proper sizes. I may not get to try it until F-19 is released but would like to have an example on hand, might be inspired to try redoing an F-18 LVM installation. Bob -- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box10 Fedora-18 XFCE Linux

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Fedora 17 sometimes doesn't wake up from sleep; can't find OS ???
by linux guy 04 Apr '13

04 Apr '13

Recently the F17 (x64) install on my Dell XPS 17 isn't waking up from the sleep state. I'm not sure if I'm invoking it to go into sleep or if its an inactivity induced sleep. Prior to recently, it always woke up from sleep without any issues. Furthermore, once in a while when I reset after not being able to wake it from sleep, I'm getting an Operating System not Found error. It always finds the OS if I reset it again. Is anyone else having resume/booting issues with recent kernels after entering the sleep state ? Is anyone else experiencing OS not found issues ? uname -a Linux XPS.localdomain 3.8.4-102.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Mar 24 13:09:09 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Thanks.

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Turn off monitor (TV) shutdown
by Todor Petkov 04 Apr '13

04 Apr '13

Hello all, I have Sapphire EDGE-HD Mini PC, attached to a LG TV with HDMI cable. The OS is Fedora18, from live CD. After 1 hour, the TV turns off. I have tried several things: 1) /usr/bin/gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.screensaver idle-activation-enabled false 2) editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-local.conf and adding: Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "ServerLayout0" Option "BlankTime" "0" Option "StandbyTime" "0" Option "SuspendTime" "0" Option "OffTime" "0" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" Option "DPMS" "false" EndSection However, it does not help. When I grep DPMS in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, it says: [ 26.451] Initializing built-in extension DPMS [ 26.654] (II) RADEON(0): No DPMS capabilities specified [ 26.709] (==) RADEON(0): DPMS enabled Can someone give me a hint how to disable it completely? Thanks in advance,

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Re: Fedora on Samsung 15" ultrabook?
by Mark Haney 04 Apr '13

04 Apr '13

Just got that very device for my daughters for Christmas. F18 works great on them. I can't recall any issues with installation either. Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android

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How do you keep contacts in Fedora/KDE?
by Timothy Murphy 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

As a matter of interest, how do those of you running Fedora/KDE keep your contacts? I have a rather messy combination of Google contacts, KAddressBook and LDAP, but would like to organise something simpler. I suspect the simplest solution might be to go over entirely to Google contacts, as I want to keep my contacts in sync with my Android phone. But what do people running Fedora/KDE usually do? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin

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Fedora on Samsung 15" ultrabook?
by Jack Craig 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

Hi Folks, I am wondering if anyone has tried Fedora (17/18) on a Samsung ultrabook. http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/laptops/NP900X4C-A01US the hw specs are in the range of my desktop and i'd like to replace a lost macbook, but short on resources,... if the wireless worked, it might be a good solution. F17 is doing wonderfully on my desktop, so i wonder how about roaming?? ... anyone? Thx! jackc...

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Firefox HTML5 videos with h.264 and WebM
by Thomas Waldecker 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

Hi List, is somebody using Firefox without the Adobe Flashplugin, and using the HTML5 video features? I removed the Adobe Flashplugin. On Youtube some videos are working, some not. On Vimeo nothing works. With Midori vimeo works, youtube doesn't work. I would like firefox to support h.264 videos. Kind regards

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Weird returned page from curl cmd
by bruce 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

Hi. Trying to do a simple curl fetch of a page. I get the data, but when I compare the page to what I see in the FF/Opera browser, I get a difference. The key section on the browser is: 51% Men, 49% Women The same section from the curl is: 51.02081505702209% Men, 48.97918494297791% Women The actual test curl cmd I use is: curl -o "dee.txt" http://www.collegeview.com/schoolfacts/auburn-university-main-campus/figures It appears that the "%" causes some sort of expansion/rounding to occur in the data... Is there an attribute I should invoke that I missed. Didn't see anything when I scanned the man pages, or looked over google... Thanks

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grub2-probe - error - cannot find a GRUB drive
by poma 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

"grub2-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive…" What causes this, and why? grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg Generating grub.cfg ... Found theme: /boot/grub2/themes/system/theme.txt /usr/sbin/grub2-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/vda2 /dev/vdb2. Check your device.map. Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.9.0-0.rc4.git0.1.fc20.i686.PAE Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.9.0-0.rc4.git0.1.fc20.i686.PAE.img Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-0-rescue-e567d261136e65c44daec4be883d00f5 Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-0-rescue-e567d261136e65c44daec4be883d00f5.img /usr/sbin/grub2-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/vda2 /dev/vdb2. Check your device.map. done /boot/grub2/device.map: # this device map was generated by anaconda (hd0) /dev/vda (hd1) /dev/vdb (hd2) /dev/vda (hd3) /dev/vdb /proc/mounts: /dev/vda2 / btrfs rw,seclabel,relatime,compress=lzo,space_cache 0 0 /dev/vda2 /home btrfs rw,seclabel,relatime,compress=lzo,space_cache 0 0 /dev/vda2 /boot btrfs rw,seclabel,relatime,compress=lzo,space_cache 0 0 btrfs filesystem show Label: 'fedora' uuid: d5773e24-f14f-4d85-8fd3-b2b5457b4708 Total devices 2 FS bytes used 3.61GB devid 2 size 18.03GB used 5.78GB path /dev/vdb2 devid 1 size 18.03GB used 5.79GB path /dev/vda2 Btrfs v0.20-rc1 btrfs filesystem df / Data, RAID1: total=5.00GB, used=3.35GB System, RAID1: total=32.00MB, used=4.00KB System: total=4.00MB, used=0.00 Metadata, RAID1: total=768.00MB, used=262.83MB Thanks, poma

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fedora18: Wireless Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n
by Dario Lesca 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

Hi, My netbook Asus have this network Wireless controller: > 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01) > Subsystem: AzureWave Device 2107 > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 3 > Memory at f7d00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K] > Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3 > Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=78 <?> > Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ > Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 > Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting > Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel > Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-00-d9-ff-ff-09-6c-71 > Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?> and not work out of the box or with rpmfusion's wl driver. For now I have found this howto: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-282334.html and with this procedure: > #!/bin/bash > # > # http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-282334.html > > set -x > dtmp=$(mktemp -d) > > # wget -c http://jas.gemnetworks.com/debian/pool/main/w/wireless-bcm43142/wireless-bc… > rpm -q dpkg || yum install dpkg > > dpkg-deb -x wireless-bcm43142-dkms_6.20.55.19-1_amd64.deb $dtmp > > cd $dtmp/usr/src/wireless-bcm43142-6.20.55.19/ > > make API=WEXT > > mkdir -p /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/extra/wl > rm -f /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/extra/wl/wl.ko > cp ./wl.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/extra/wl/. > > depmod -a > > modprobe -r wl > sleep 2 > ip a > > modprobe wl > sleep 2 > ip a > > cd > rm -rf $dtmp the wl driver work fine. My question is: There is an official Fedora driver (embedded, akmod or kmod) for this (bcp43142) wireless network card? Thanks. -- Dario Lesca - sip:dario@solinos.it (Inviato dal mio Linux Fedora18+Gnome3)

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Printing jobs
by Richard Vickery 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

can anyone help me figure out what is going on here? I'll look at it in the morning, but still might not find it on my own. SELinux is preventing /usr/lib/cups/filter/hpcups from search access on the directory /var/lib/hp. ***** Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests *************************** If you believe that hpcups should be allowed search access on the hp directory by default. Then you should report this as a bug. You can generate a local policy module to allow this access. Do allow this access for now by executing: # grep hpcups /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol # semodule -i mypol.pp Additional Information: Source Context system_u:system_r:cupsd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 Target Context system_u:object_r:hplip_var_lib_t:s0 Target Objects /var/lib/hp [ dir ] Source hpcups Source Path /usr/lib/cups/filter/hpcups Port <Unknown> Host localhost.localdomain Source RPM Packages hpijs-3.13.2-1.fc18.x86_64 Target RPM Packages hplip-3.13.2-1.fc18.x86_64 Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.11.1-71.fc18.noarch Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted Enforcing Mode Enforcing Host Name localhost.localdomain Platform Linux localhost.localdomain 3.7.2-204.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 16 16:22:52 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 Alert Count 1 First Seen 2013-03-29 21:55:27 PDT Last Seen 2013-03-29 21:55:27 PDT Local ID 9063f3dd-5d16-4075-94d6-dde1b6741646 Raw Audit Messages type=AVC msg=audit(1364619327.931:341): avc: denied { search } for pid=2487 comm="hpcups" name="hp" dev="dm-2" ino=1582738 scontext=system_u:system_r:cupsd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:hplip_var_lib_t:s0 tclass=dir type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1364619327.931:341): arch=x86_64 syscall=open success=no exit=EACCES a0=424c24 a1=0 a2=1b6 a3=238 items=0 ppid=806 pid=2487 auid=4294967295 uid=4 gid=7 euid=4 suid=4 fsuid=4 egid=7 sgid=7 fsgid=7 ses=4294967295 tty=(none) comm=hpcups exe=/usr/lib/cups/filter/hpcups subj=system_u:system_r:cupsd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null) Hash: hpcups,cupsd_t,hplip_var_lib_t,dir,search audit2allow #============= cupsd_t ============== allow cupsd_t hplip_var_lib_t:dir search; audit2allow -R #============= cupsd_t ============== allow cupsd_t hplip_var_lib_t:dir search; Thanks for any help.

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Re: undo rm -rf *
by Rick Walker 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

> > I'm not a fan of trash directories. They give you a second chance, but > > you may end up not really deleting things you wanted to delete. What > > about a simple script something like this? If you want something a bit more polished, you might check out "nrm", available at http://www.omnisterra.com/walker/linux/nrm.html It's a C program written to have the same arguments, return codes and side effects as /bin/rm to the extent possible. It moves files into the hidden sub-directory ".gone" instead of removing files. You can remove files with "-s" and you get sequenced backups - all files are saved with a time-stamp suffix for fine grained file restores. There is a program "urm" to unremove the file, but most users just do "ls .gone" to see what they've recently removed and then just "mv" it back to their working directory. There is an associated cron job that runs every day to permanently remove all deleted files that are older than a configurable age. The default is 3 days so you can get things back on Monday that you nuked on Friday. It's been running on HP-UX since about 1987, and on linux since 1997. I'd consider it pretty solid at this point. kind regards, -- Rick Walker

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Wusb600N and Fedora
by Mark Haney 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

My old Linksys PCI card blew a gasket a couple weeks ago and I picked up a Linksys WUSB600N USB card for one of my desktops since no one near me sells PCI cards. (I live in Western NC) In Win7 it works fine but in Fedora it doesn't. I've googled everything I can find on getting it working and only get bits from Ubuntu. Does anyone in the Fedora community have this card working? Or tips on how to make it work? I'm just about to pull it and spend more cash on a PCI card if I can't get this working soon. Help! Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android

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f18...
by Marc Blanc 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

Hello, after new install of f18 i have some problems with the web. Only the some web pages are loaded, like google. But when i want to access a link the browsers (firefox and google-chrome-stable) don't open anything. I have no errors messages... Impossible to download anything :(( Do you know this behavior ? Some softwares missing ? Thank you in advance. Only mail works correctly. -- M.B

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Re: Wusb600N and Fedora
by Mark Haney 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

It's F18 and marginally current with updates. I'm detain this is the v2 card so based on what I read the rt2800usb driver won't work. Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android

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Major fsck-up
by Joe Zeff 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

Well, I've managed to make matters worse on my desktop. Before doing a clean install, I decided to clean up my partitions a tad. There's an old partition that used to be /boot until new requirements made it too small and was just sitting there, unmounted, so I used a LiveCD and Gparted to remove it. Then, I added it to /home. Alas, the program hung before completing the job and now, the partition's unrecognizable. Gparted can't correct it and parted can't read it. Using e2fsck from a command line tells me that the superblock is wrong, and I can't work out how to find out where to tell me to look. And, probably because of this, my installation now hangs before it gets far enough for me to get to a CLI. I do have a reasonably recent backup, if all goes bad, but I'd rather not have to use it. Does anybody know how to find it, or otherwise recover the partition? I'm tempted to use touch /forcefsck, to see if that works, but somehow, I doubt it. Advice, or pointers to suggestions will be very, very welcome.

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e2fsprogs 1.42.7 when?
by Will Yonker 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

When might e2fsprogs 1.42.7 be available via YUM for Fedora 18?Â It seems there were some major fixes in that release but I don't want to install it from source if I don't have to. Linux nix03 3.8.2-206.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 8 15:03:34 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Thanks! --- Will Y. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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MKV file. how to convert.
by Mickey 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

How would I Insert the bob.mkv in the line below ? /usr/bin/ffmpeg -i $1 -acodec aac -ab 96k -vcodec libx264 -preset slow -f mp4 -crf 22 -strict experimental $1.mp4 I tried to use Miro but it just keeps CRASHING.

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Fedora 18 existing /usr partition -- need to merge into rootfs?
by Noah Cutler 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

Hey all. I'm confused over the whole separate /usr partition is broken thing: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken >From an email in current fedora-user thread we have: "That should not be necessary. And would break a very normal system setup of using separate drives, *even more so than the blasted can't have a separate /usr thing that happened recently*." During Fedora 18 fresh install with custom partitioning chosen, Anaconda autocompletes mount points so I went with /boot, /, /user, /var, and /home partitions. Everything appears to work swimmingly here after 1 month of use -- separate /usr partition does not appear to be broken...anymore?? Just trying to future proof my setup; if it's better to merge /usr into rootfs, so be it, better to do it early days with the new system. Otherwise, if someone can chime in here with some sage partitioning advice as to how to proceed moving forward with Fedora, that would be much appreciated. FWIW, as a beginner the benefits I see in a diverse micro-managed partitioning scheme (vs. the mega partition) is being able to fsck quickly; clone partitions quickly (e.g. copy to additional disks), and prevent runaway logs and the like (there are likely others). I'm thinking something like this would be "ideal" for a 256GB SSD: /dev/sda1 /boot 181MB of 500MB /dev/sda2 / 606MB of 3GB extended: /dev/sda4 /usr 6.0GB of 12GB /dev/sda5 /var 1.5GB of 8GB /dev/sda6 /home 15GB of 30GB free space the rest Of course most seem to go with /boot / and /home, so my ideas are likely not grounded in reality ;-) On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:01 PM, <users-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>wrote: > Send users mailing list submissions to > users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > users-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > users-owner(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of users digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Using Exim as a controlled relayer (Gary Stainburn) > 2. Re: Booting issues (Reindl Harald) > 3. Re: yum erase unused dependencies (Frank Murphy) > 4. Re: Limit of file siae on USB drives? (Patrick O'Callaghan) > 5. Re: yum erase unused dependencies (Patrick O'Callaghan) > 6. Fedora 18 network printer setup (D. Hugh Redelmeier) > 7. Re: Booting issues (Tim) > 8. Re: Limit of file siae on USB drives? (Tim) > 9. Re: undo rm -rf * (Tim) > 10. Re: Using Exim as a controlled relayer (Tim) > 11. Re: undo rm -rf * (Rejy M Cyriac) > 12. Re: Fedora 18 network printer setup (Tim Waugh) > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn(a)ringways.co.uk> > To: Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> > Cc: > Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:47:40 +0000 > Subject: Using Exim as a controlled relayer > I've managed to get the Exim + Pgsql setup working. > > For the domains I'm hosting I have a set of records which contain an email > address within the domain and an delivery email address, e.g. > > user(a)hosted.domain -> gary.stainburn(a)ringways.co.uk > > When I test this using > > exim -bt user(a)hosted.domain > > it works fine, but when I try to send an email it fails > > relay not permitted. > > Obviously i do not want to turn on relaying, so how can I configure Exim to > allow emails that have matched a record in the user table to be forwarded? > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Reindl Harald <h.reindl(a)thelounge.net> > To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Cc: > Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:50:19 +0100 > Subject: Re: Booting issues > > > Am 26.03.2013 22:28, schrieb Kinkaid: > > As I dug around the boot up process a little, I found a curious message > about /mnt/usbdisk which was a usb drive I > > had setup shortly before all the latest bit happened. I guess the init > process was hanging when it was trying to > > mount the usb drive and that was halting the whole process. After I > removed the offending entry from /etc/fstab > > all boots up normally now > > "noauto" is your friend and the last bit to zero which indicates at least > "no fsck" > never configure temporary drives as like built-in ones > > [root@localhost:~]$ cat /etc/fstab | grep noauto > UUID=ea140964-634c-4fce-b587-9ce6a21b4cf9 /mnt/fileserver-backup ext4 > rw,noexec,noatime,noauto 0 0 > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Frank Murphy <frankly3d(a)gmail.com> > To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Cc: > Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:55:20 +0000 > Subject: Re: yum erase unused dependencies > On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:40:46 +0100 > Michael Schwendt <mschwendt(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:32:59 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > > > > I recall last year a discussion of using yum to remove unwanted > > > packages, and tell it to remove only dependencies which were used > > > by no other package. I can't seem to find how that was done in my > > > notes, could someone give me a pointer to the method? > > > > yum list yum\* > > yum info yum-plugin-remove-with-leaves > > > > you could add the following to /etc/yum.conf > "clean_requirements_on_remove=1" > > -- > Regards, > Frank > http//www.frankly3d.com > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> > To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Cc: > Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:20:02 -0430 > Subject: Re: Limit of file siae on USB drives? > On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 13:55 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 03/26/2013 01:32 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > > > You can either split up your file or format the flash drive with a > > > different filesystem. If you reformat it, it probably won't be usable > > > under other OSes though. > > > > If such things matter, you can do this to create a flash drive that the > > various snoopy government agencies can't easily read, without going to > > the bother of encrypting it, especially as some of them claim the right > > to demand encryption keys. It's not your fault that they're using a > > dain-bramaged OS that can't read OSS file systems, such as ext4, is it? > > You mean like the one in my set-top box? > > poc > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> > To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Cc: > Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:22:49 -0430 > Subject: Re: yum erase unused dependencies > On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 20:40 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:32:59 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > > > > I recall last year a discussion of using yum to remove unwanted > packages, and > > > tell it to remove only dependencies which were used by no other > package. I can't > > > seem to find how that was done in my notes, could someone give me a > pointer to > > > the method? > > > > yum list yum\* > > yum info yum-plugin-remove-with-leaves > > > > -- > > Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat) - Linux > 3.9.0-0.rc3.git1.4.fc19.x86_64 > > loadavg: 0.15 0.08 0.06 > > package-cleanup can also be useful in this context. > > poc > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "D. Hugh Redelmeier" <hugh(a)mimosa.com> > To: Fedora user-lists <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> > Cc: > Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:41:32 -0400 (EDT) > Subject: Fedora 18 network printer setup > I have a Brother DCP-7065dn printer scanner connected to my LAN. > > Sadly, it requires a proprietary driver. I've installed that. > <http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html> > > I asked the System Settings: Printers to set it up (add the printer). > The SS:P found the printer (so it must have found its IP address) and > added it. But the SS:P was only willing to configure it with the IP > Address "localhost". Not surprisingly, printing didn't work. > > I even tried telling SS:P the printer's IP address, but it ignored > that and used localhost. > > I used SS:P to remove the printer again. > > I used the CUPS web server to add the printer (as suggested on the > Brother page). That worked. My printer has a static IP address, > which made pointing Firefox at it easier. > > Why would Systems Settings: Printers not be able to add this network > printer? > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> > To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Cc: > Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:20:22 +1030 > Subject: Re: Booting issues > > Kinkaid, Kyle: > >> I'm having some boot problems on my Fedora 18 workstation, KDE Spin. > >> > >> > >> System background: > >> > >> I have a Dell Precision workstation, with two HDs, and full disk > >> encryption. The two HDs are combined into three logical volumes, > >> swap, root, and /home. > > > Richard Vickery: > > I think I had a like problem to this that I solved by putting the > > partitions on the same drive, rather than using separate ones. > > That should not be necessary. And would break a very normal system > setup of using separate drives, even more so than the blasted can't have > a separate /usr thing that happened recently. > > I've used separate home drives, in the past, as a very simple way of > being able to safely update a server without any chance of screwing up > user data. Others have used separate swap drives as a way of speeding > up swap, should you ever be stuck with having to make use of it. It's > bad enough to have to use a drive for swap space, without having to put > up with the thrashing of alternating between swapping and everything > else it's trying to access on the drive. > > Anyway, I note the original poster says they've solved their problem. > > -- > [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp > Linux 3.8.3-103.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 18 15:46:01 UTC 2013 x86_64 > > All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point > trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the > public lists. > > My apologies for not including a virus with this message, but I don't > use Windows. > > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> > To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Cc: > Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:23:27 +1030 > Subject: Re: Limit of file siae on USB drives? > Allegedly, on or about 26 March 2013, Joe Zeff sent: > > If such things matter, you can do this to create a flash drive that > > the various snoopy government agencies can't easily read, without > > going to the bother of encrypting it, especially as some of them claim > > the right to demand encryption keys. It's not your fault that they're > > using a dain-bramaged OS that can't read OSS file systems, such as > > ext4, is it? > > It strikes me that the "snoopy" services will probably have no trouble > reading something as un-bizarre as ext4. I dare say that such things > are child's play to them. It would be a tech that would assess > hardware, not just any member of their staff. > > -- > [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp > Linux 3.8.3-103.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 18 15:46:01 UTC 2013 x86_64 > > All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point > trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the > public lists. > > My apologies for not including a virus with this message, but I don't > use Windows. > > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> > To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Cc: > Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:28:29 +1030 > Subject: Re: undo rm -rf * > Allegedly, on or about 26 March 2013, bruce sent: > > as a face saving process... always test what ever you're going to do > > when using RM <<< and then substitute ls for rm to see what the > > results would be... > > I would, also, think carefully about whether you really do need the > force flag. Some people just jam that in out of habit. > > -- > [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp > Linux 3.8.3-103.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 18 15:46:01 UTC 2013 x86_64 > > All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point > trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the > public lists. > > My apologies for not including a virus with this message, but I don't > use Windows. > > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> > To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Cc: > Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:31:13 +1030 > Subject: Re: Using Exim as a controlled relayer > Allegedly, on or about 26 March 2013, Gary Stainburn sent: > > When I test this using > > > > exim -bt user(a)hosted.domain > > > > it works fine, but when I try to send an email it fails > > > > relay not permitted. > > > > Obviously i do not want to turn on relaying, so how can I configure > > Exim to allow emails that have matched a record in the user table to > > be forwarded? > > Bearing in mind your bowlderised example, my simplistic answer would be > to use real domain names (that you own) in your network. Things work a > lot easier when you don't use fake domain names. Being able to email > between machines, for just one example. > > -- > [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp > Linux 3.8.3-103.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 18 15:46:01 UTC 2013 x86_64 > > All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point > trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the > public lists. > > My apologies for not including a virus with this message, but I don't > use Windows. > > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Rejy M Cyriac <rcyriac(a)redhat.com> > To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Cc: > Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:25:31 +0530 > Subject: Re: undo rm -rf * > On 03/27/2013 11:28 AM, Tim wrote: > > Allegedly, on or about 26 March 2013, bruce sent: > >> as a face saving process... always test what ever you're going to do > >> when using RM <<< and then substitute ls for rm to see what the > >> results would be... > > > > I would, also, think carefully about whether you really do need the > > force flag. Some people just jam that in out of habit. > > > Reminded me of another dangerous habit some people get into - exiting > 'vi/vim' with ':wq!' always. > > -- > Regards, > > Rejy M Cyriac (rmc) > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> > To: "D. Hugh Redelmeier" <hugh(a)mimosa.com>, Community support for Fedora > users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> > Cc: > Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:44:29 +0000 > Subject: Re: Fedora 18 network printer setup > On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 01:41 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > > I have a Brother DCP-7065dn printer scanner connected to my LAN. > > > > Sadly, it requires a proprietary driver. I've installed that. > > < > http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html> > > > > I asked the System Settings: Printers to set it up (add the printer). > > The SS:P found the printer (so it must have found its IP address) and > > added it. But the SS:P was only willing to configure it with the IP > > Address "localhost". Not surprisingly, printing didn't work. > > > > I even tried telling SS:P the printer's IP address, but it ignored > > that and used localhost. > > That's odd. What output does this command give?: > > su -c 'lpinfo -l -v' > > (I'm hoping it lists the network printer there...) > > Tim. > */ > > > -- > 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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