xfce April 2010

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F13 No automount data DVD
by Frank Murphy 12 Apr '10

12 Apr '10

Nothing happens when inserting DVD (F12) dir /media shows nothing. Thunar shows nothing blkid shows nothing relevant sudo lshw: *-cdrom description: DVD writer product: DVD+-RW GSA-H73N vendor: HL-DT-ST physical id: 1 bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0 logical name: /dev/cdrom logical name: /dev/cdrw logical name: /dev/dvd logical name: /dev/dvdrw logical name: /dev/scd0 logical name: /dev/sr0 version: B103 serial: [HL-DT-STDVD+-RW GSA-H73NB10307/06/27 7U02 capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r configuration: ansiversion=5 status=ready *-medium physical id: 0 logical name: /dev/cdrom This is an XFCE F12, upgradeed with preupgrade to F13 branched (I was testing preupgrade). -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded, Fedora.x86 64-32 Hybrid

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Nightly : 7th April i686
by Frank Murphy 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

As with all live-cd installs. There are two services "livesys, livesys-late" Are they necessary, once system installed? If I disable them bootup gives an error, but yum search (info) (whatprovides) give me no clue as to what rpms they belong? -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded, Fedora.x86 64-32 Hybrid

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many thanks for the Fedora 12 Xfce Spin / feedback on live cd
by david pardue 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

Hello, everyone, I installed the Fedora 12 Xfce Spin yesterday and would like to take a moment to say "Thanks!" for everyone's efforts putting it together. After some initial glitches (see below), I managed to install it to my hard drive and am posting from it right now. It has been stable thus far, and it sure is fast. I'm looking forward to using it more. I will try to stick as closely as possible to the apps you've pre-selected (although I installed OpenOffice.org and TeX Live because I need them). I've only recently discovered Xfce; I've experimented with it as a secondary desktop environment in Linux Mint 8 and Pardus 2009.1 as well as playing with the Live CD of Dreamlinux 3.5. So I'm not competent to judge how the F12 Xfce Spin compares technically with those others. I will say that I like the look of your implementation -- it's clean and polished, without being flashy. (Dreamlinux is pretty but it seems to be trendy to imitate the Mac OS X interface. I appreciate that Fedora is willing to buck that trend). Although I'm new to your Xfce Spin, I'm not a first-time Fedora user. I had a good run with Fedora 9 Sulphur (the GNOME version) and I used it until it reached its EOL. At that point I started distro-hopping and have been away from Fedora for a while. But I found myself missing the Fedora Forums and the bright people who know how to fix Fedora when Something Breaks. Below I'd like to attach some feedback on the Live CD's performance. I sent an e-mail to Christoph and he suggested that I provide more details concering how it ran on my hardware (since he didn't experience these problems firsthand). I took notes this evening and wrote them up. I know this isn't very technical but I hope it will be of help to you. (Please don't interpret this as a complaint, because that isn't my intention). My hardware is fairly good, so I'm puzzled as to why the Live CD's performance was so sluggish ... I don't know if it's all the abrt daemon's fault or not (or if there's something weird about my hardware). As a non-programmer, I'm fortunate to have a choice among so many good Linux distros. Of course this wouldn't be possible without so many talented and dedicated Linux developers -- like you -- who are willing to freely share their time and knowledge. I tip my hat (I won't make bad pun of saying "my Fedora" :-( ) to all of you. With best wishes, =david McAllen, Texas, USA ========== Background a. The .iso was downloaded on my Mint 8 partition via BitTorrent (Transmission) and its checksum was verified. b. The .iso was burned to CD-R using Brasero at 8x speed (the slowest speed available on my optical drive). c. Each CD-R was also checked with the "Verify and Boot" option of the Live CD. They both passed. d. The performance was nearly identical for both CDs. ---------- Results of Live CD Performance 1. HP CD-R 52x 700 MB Time from beginning of boot (after the auto countdown finished) until GDM login screen: 10:40 (10 min. 40 sec.) Saw the Fedora 'f' logo fill in completely at: 8:00 Saw cursor appear with spinning blue circle at: 9:45 Boot messages [yellow warning triangle] read: Everything was 'OK' except for the abrtd message: "Starting abrt daemon: abrtd : Failed to start: timeout waiting for child [FAILED]" This CD had a kernel crash ("kernel oops") the very first time it was booted. I tried to use the Automatic Bug Reporting Tool to report the problem--I'm not sure if it worked. No kernel crashes occurred with subsequent uses. ----- 2. TDK CD-R 52x 700 MB Time from beginning of boot (after the auto countdown finished) until GDM login screen: 10:30 (10 min. 30 sec.) Saw the Fedora 'f' logo fill in completely at: 8:00 Saw cursor appear with spinning blue circle at: 9:30 Boot messages [yellow warning triangle] read: Everything was 'OK' except for the abrtd message: "Starting abrt daemon: abrtd : Failed to start: timeout waiting for child [FAILED]" (I didn't experience any kernel crashes with this TDK CD). ----- 3. Comparison with installed HD performance (on partition /sda12): Time from GRUB menu until GDM login screen: 0:26 (26 seconds) ---------- System Specs AMD Athlon II X2 240 (Regor) 2.8 GHz, 4 GB RAM, Seagate Barracuda 320 GB HD, Nvidia GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 integrated GPU, Samsung SH-S222L DVD-RW

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re: Texas Linux Fest
by david pardue 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

Hi, Adam, It's always nice to hear encouraging words, so I was glad to write something positive. Thanks again to you and the other Xfce SIG members for all your hard work on the Spin. I had heard about the Texas Linux Fest and it sounds like it could be a cool event. Unfortunately, I won't be attending it because it's in Austin and I'm in McAllen -- about 350 miles (6.5 hours) away. McAllen is in far South Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley. We're about 40 minutes from Brownsville (at the very tip of the state). McAllen is on the international US-Mexico border, and our Mexican neighbor city, Reynosa, is 8 miles away. The Valley is an interesting place to live; geographically, we're in the US but culturally, we're in northern Mexico. There is a joke among old gringos in the area: "You know, it's pretty nice living in McAllen -- it's almost like being in the United States." The map here will you give a better idea of Valley geography: http://bit.ly/9OoZgK This area has made the national news lately because of the border violence in Reynosa (which now has a population of ca. 1 million) and surrounding areas in Tamaulipas State. There is an ongoing turf war between rival drug cartels: the Cartel del Golfo (CDG or 'Gulf Cartel') and the Zetas. Members of both groups are heavily armed (automatic weapons, grenade launchers, etc.) and some innocent bystanders in Reynosa have died in crossfire. The Mexican government has sent troops to the area but it's unclear whether they are really in control of the situation. McAllen is still safe but we've heard increasing concern about "spillover violence." :-( =david

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