Alien
by John Aldrich
I have an app that is available in three formats: Mac, Windows and .DEB.
I would like to install it on my Fedora box, but, obviously, Fedora
doesn't support .DEB files. So, I thought, why not use Alien to install
it? Except, there doesn't seem to be an Alien RPM for Fedora 18. The
most recent I could find was Fedora 16. Has Alien been abandoned? If
not, where can I find it?
Thanks!
11 years
Re: firefox crash
by Patrick Dupre
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ed Greshko
> Sent: 05/24/13 10:41 AM
> To: Community support for Fedora users
> Subject: Re: firefox crash
>
> On 05/24/13 16:38, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> > I observed a lot of crashes with firefox 21
> > for example just going to www.thesaurus.com
> > I also use ABP to block the AD, but it does not seem to be the poblem.
> >
> > What is wrong ?
>
> I just went to www.thesaurus.com and had no problems....
>
> You've tried starting FF in safe mode?
>
Thank for the suggestion.
When I start in safe mode, every thing is frozen!
with: Transferring data from ad.doubleclick.net
Then I need to quit (kill) FF.
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Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com
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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11 years
F17 losing settings
by Beartooth
Where/How do I tell Fedora (Gnome 3) once and for all to show
hidden files? Unless I command otherwise, I always want to see them; but
the file manager seems to ignore the fact that I have that option checked.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
11 years
Solicited sales email distribution - advice needed
by Gary Stainburn
Hi Folks.
I have at work one of our salesmen who has an opt-in stock-list distribution
that has been running for some time now. He has in excess of 2500 recipients
on this list.
Up until now he has simply had a Distribution list in his MS Outlook which he
maintains himself. He then sends himself an email every week containing the
stock list and BCC's the distribution list. Other than generating an
excessive load on my EXIM server there has been no real down side to this as
it meant that I didn't have to get involved.
However, we are now experiencing problems and I would like a better solution.
I need a system that will distribute the email to each recipient as a seperate
message, and if possible will monitor and highlight any emails that fail.
Can anyone suggest a way of doing this? Ideally I would like the salesman to
still be able to administer it but that isn't essential. If it is a system
that is either text file or database driven I can create a UI that he would
be able to use.
Gary
11 years
firefox crash
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
I observed a lot of crashes with firefox 21
for example just going to www.thesaurus.com
I also use ABP to block the AD, but it does not seem to be the poblem.
What is wrong ?
Thank.
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Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com
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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11 years
Date and Time - timedatectl
by poma
On Fedora 17/18/19/20
System-Config-Date:
comm. "system-config-date"
[1] "Date and Time"
- "Synchronize date and time over the network"
eq. comms. [off]/on:
systemctl [stop]/start chronyd
systemctl [disable]/enable chronyd
yum info chrony
event.
systemctl mask ntpd[ate].service
- "Advanced Options"
-- "Speed up initial synchronization"
conf. files [off]/on:
/etc/chrony.conf
server <NTPSERVER> []/iburst
…
/etc/sysconfig/network
[]/NTPSERVERARGS=iburst
-- "Use Local Time Source"
conf. file [off]/on:
/etc/chrony.conf
[#]local stratum 10
[2] "Time Zone"
- Selected city: Helsinki, Europe
eq. comm.:
ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Helsinki /etc/localtime
- "System clock uses UTC"
conf. file [off]/on:
/etc/adjtime
[LOCAL]/UTC
On Fedora 18 & up
Besides the above mentioned plus "timedatectl" as a CLI counterpart to a
"system-config-date".
Although, it lacks the 'iburst' directive and "timedatectl set-ntp" is
broken in Fedora 18 - systemd 201.
$ timedatectl set-ntp false/true
Failed to issue method call: No such file or directory
Though, it working well in Fedora 19/20 - systemd 204.
Anyhow, man 1 timedatectl & Co. ;)
Before filing a bug contra "timedatectl, has anyone encountered this
bug, also?
poma
11 years
F18 could not be boot after update
by Vinny Onelli
Hello,
After one of last update it will not longer boot. This is what i
partially copy from screen:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
.
.
Kernel panic-not syncing: attempted to kill init! exit code=0x00000009.
In the mean time I select the previous apdate kernel which works ok. I
appreciate some help, Thanks in advance. Vinny
11 years
Re: f17 no internet after power failure, power restored
by Jackson Byers
>Most likely. Either the power failed in a bad way, upsetting the
>hardware in your computer along the way, or your CMOS battery may be
>running low, and this failure happened coincidentally.
>If you often leave your computer switched off for many hours and your
>clock is fine, then the battery is probably okay.
well, I don't leave it switched off for many hours.
It is largely idle, no long jobs overnite, but it is on 24x7.
I know nothing about CMOS battery. This is an old system
# uname -rsvp
Linux 3.8.12-100.fc17.i686.PAE #1 SMP Wed May 8 15:43:53 UTC 2013 i686
I am mostly a hardware ninny.
I could take the computer to my old vendor to check CMOS,
which I will do as last resort, if I can't fix it.
>Unless you're running a CLI-only system, it seems like you've gone to an
>awful amount of trouble to set the time and date, instead of just using
>the system settings GUI that lets you set the clock.
I am running xfce
the only GUI i can find that might do this is
Administration, Add/remove Software, System-Config-Date
but clicking on that is unresponsive
>The first thing that springs to mind is that you shouldn't have to
>manually set the clock, I thought that Fedora set its clock from a time
>server, by default, these days.
I think you are correct, but I don't so far see how to check on this.
>And the second thing that springs to mind regards the clock being way
>off from what you expect: Have you correctly set your computer's
>timezone? And since you've specified that you set the clock to UTC with
>the -u flag, was 16:22 the actual UTC time at the time you set the
>clock?
right now I don't recall just how I came up with that 16:22:
I think it was wrong, as per following, from google:
"Time zone offset: UTC - 7 hours
PDT is 7 hours behind of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
Note that PDT is a daylight saving time/summer time zone. It is generally
only used during the summer in the places listed below, during the winter
PST is used instead
"
So, i redid the two date commands one for date, one for time as corrected
for that 7hrs.
it is looking stable no funny time in panel.
>But personally, I'd just use the system settings GUI for the clock, pick
>the timezone, and let the computer manage the clock setting for me over
>the internet. I dare say that just about all public NTP servers are
>going to be more accurate than manually setting the time, and it
>automatically takes care of any time errors that crop up from time to
>time.
I would like to, but as per above, the one menu item that looks appropriate
is
unresponsive
thanks for response
Jack
# uname -rsvp
Linux 3.8.12-100.fc17.i686.PAE #1 SMP Wed May 8 15:43:53 UTC 2013 i686
11 years
Re: firefox crash
by Patrick Dupre
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ed Greshko
> Sent: 05/27/13 04:02 PM
> To: Community support for Fedora users
> Subject: Re: firefox crash
>
> On 05/27/13 17:38, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> > May I should try an older version, like the last version 20, if I can
> > get it?
>
> yum downgrade firefox xulrunner
>
This only give me one step back, isn't it?
> or try Google Chrome?
>
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Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com
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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11 years
