random reboot finally hits me
by Tom Horsley
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.
11 years
Extract ".rar" file -
by Bob Goodwin
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
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11 years
keeping USB disk awake
by Sherman Grunewagon
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
11 years
how to fully delete user account?
by William Mattison
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.
11 years
Re: Fedora vs RHEL
by EGO-II.1
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.
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11 years
F 18 disk management tool
by Paul Erickson
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
11 years
Create a LiveCD with a static-IP config as default in NetworkManager?
by Fernando Cassia
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
11 years
F 18 problem accessing external usb drives with XFS
by Paul Erickson
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
11 years
[OT] ffmpeg buffer underflow
by Mark Haney
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).
11 years
Samba 4
by Gabriel VLASIU
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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
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