F18 fails to install on Toshiba Satellite M860
by Abu Attar Musharih
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
11 years
Dell Inspiron 1100 and Intel 82845 video problems
by Kevin Cummings
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....
--
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11 years
DSoD : Diagonal Screen of Death
by Beartooth
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.
11 years
configuring fetchmail while accessing internet from behind proxy server
by Ranjan Maitra
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
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11 years
unable to connect bluetooth
by Neal Becker
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)
11 years
RE:Disability relief
by Alan Gagne
> >/ 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
11 years
Installing texlive under Fedora 17.
by Rolf Turner
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.
11 years
Command grep -
by Bob Goodwin
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
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box10 Fedora-18 XFCE Linux
11 years
