users April 2013

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by Richard Vickery

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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-addr... 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

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

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

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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