Re: using squid as a yum cache
why you don't create a private fedora mirror ? Wouldn't he need to download a lot of packages that his machines won't be using? Yes, that's why I didn't want to set up mirrors (I would have to mirror fedora, updates, rpmfusion, i686, x86_64, etc, etc...) Adding the proxy line to yum.conf is obvious, as is enlarging the cache object sizes, but are subtler changes needed? For instance, does the use of mirror lists cripple the caching, since each client might request from a different mirror? Yes. Set a baseurl of the one true mirror to use. mirrors.kernel.org is a good one many places. OK, thanks, that's what I thought. Maybe in the future yum could have a feature to auto-magically query computers on the local subnet for the presence of an already-downloaded package, and then just scp it locally... - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
using squid as a yum cache
Could someone point me to a good tutorial about how to configure squid and yum optimally, so squid will act as a cache for yum? Adding the proxy line to yum.conf is obvious, as is enlarging the cache object sizes, but are subtler changes needed? For instance, does the use of mirror lists cripple the caching, since each client might request from a different mirror? Tips appreciated! - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
malingering printers
I have some HP inkjets. Sometimes they'll run low on ink, and cups will disable the printer. After replacing the cartridges, you need root access to re-enable the printers in system-config-printers. How can I avoid the need for root access? Is there a printer enable thyself option? - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: malingering printers
On 11/13/2009 10:26 AM, Tim Waugh wrote: What version of Fedora is that on? That sounds like it might be an HPLIP problem. It's an up-to-date F11. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: malingering printers
On 11/13/2009 11:05 AM, Tim Waugh wrote: Perhaps you could file a bug report and include the /var/log/cups/error_log* files you have? That would help me track down why the printer became disabled. OK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537443 - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: How to get rid from unused entries in ~/.thumbnails
Use gconf-editor to set: /desktop/gnome/thumbnail_cache/maximum_age in days /desktop/gnome/thumbnail_cache/maximum_size in MB Also, the paranoid will be pleased to know that you can set these values to 0, in which case the cache will be cleared upon logout. Setting them to -1 disables cache cleaning. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: How to get rid from unused entries in ~/.thumbnails
I use the excellent tool bleachbit (http://bleachbit.sourceforget.net) (rpms are provided) which frees you from many temp/auxiliary files Ughh, that's not the right URL. That's a spamming pop-up nightmare. You probably meant: http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/ - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: How to get rid from unused entries in ~/.thumbnails
On 10/28/2009 01:47 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:39:01 -0400, Todd Zullingert...@pobox.com wrote: When disk costs fractions of pennies, is that amount of space even a concern? I've had my thumbnails dir grow over several GB before, after moving my photos to new locations. sing the thumbnails are stored based on the md5 of the path to the image, I ended up duplicating a lot of thumbnails. Backed up storage isn't nearly as cheap as throw away storage. Disk bandwidth has not been keeping up with disk size. It isn't getting cheaper to back up disk space at nearly the rate that plain disk space has. Use gconf-editor to set: /desktop/gnome/thumbnail_cache/maximum_age in days /desktop/gnome/thumbnail_cache/maximum_size in MB The default is 180 days and 512 MB. However, fspot overwrites these default to much larger values if present. This is a feature of gnome-settings-daemon (the housekeeping plugin). The purge should occur a few minutes after each log-on. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: bournal reviews please !?!
On 10/16/2009 10:35 AM, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 20:11 -0400, William Case wrote: I want a encrypted, password protected, container/file into which I can store things like some personal data, site passwords, and bank account numbers and passwords. I use revelation for storing encrypted data like that. It is very simple and easy to use. Just yum install revelation. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: easiest way to replace hard drive?
On 10/08/2009 08:10 PM, Aldo Foot wrote: Why miss the real fun? Try Clonezilla; it can image a drive inside of 20min. But it can not image to a smaller drive, alas. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Can ISPs be trusted?
On 10/09/2009 02:55 PM, gil...@altern.org wrote: Paul wrote: If you have adequate security, your ISP should have no better access to your system/data than any other nefarious twerp on de intertubes. Actually even if you don't have security, your ISP has no better (or worse) access than the twerp. Then, I'm afraid Fedora's security is not as tight as it's supposed to be. See my answer to Phil Meyer. I would say that Paul's response is not correct. Since the ISP is directly in the route of your data they can intercept it and manipulate it. ISPs, for example, may cache popular web sites, or deliberately disrupt BitTorrent transmissions at certain hours to reduce bandwidth requirements. This sort of management is probably common, and not generally malicious. ISPs could in theory run something like Wireshark to read your unencrypted email. (Or they can slurp it all up and send it to the NSA... read about the famous secret room lawsuits for more...) Since they are in the routing path, they could conceivably even rewrite your email. A malicious employee at an ISP could launch any number of man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. It is not difficult to set up a SSL MITM attack that will intercept and falsify SSL certificates - causing an obscure warning in your browser that most people will just ignore. (This is an issue at wireless cafes). The average nefarious twerp on de intertubes would not be able to do these particular things. Anyway, it is unlikely that your ISP is messing with you (has such a case ever been reported?), but it is technically possible. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
easiest way to replace hard drive?
Hi all, Is there an easy way to transfer a system from one drive (holding boot, swap, lvm partitions, in the default F11 layout) to a different hard drive, if the new drive is smaller? If the new drive is larger, dd could be used in a fairly straightforward way. However, I want to try replacing a 160 GB hard drive with an Intel 80 GB solid-state drive, just for fun... I suspect a re-install might be easier. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: easiest way to replace hard drive?
I would think you would need to do a lvreduce and possibly a vgreduce to get the data portion of the drive under 80GB. From there I think a 'dd' would work just fine. With a resize2fs first, I guess... Anyway, thanks for all the suggestions, everyone! It looks like a minefield, so I'm going to do a fresh install and copy what I need. That way I can fall back to my old hard drive, if need be. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: What happened to NFS on fedora 11?
On 10/07/2009 01:33 PM, Frank Cox wrote: HOW TO SET UP A FIREWALL THAT ALLOWS NFS Create the file /etc/sysconfig/nfs and add the following contents: STATD_PORT=4001 LOCKD_TCPPORT=4002 LOCKD_UDPPORT=4002 MOUNTD_PORT=4003 Frank, Slightly off-topic: you might want to look at migrating to NFSv4. You only need one port (tcp port 2049) for it, so you don't need to do the port pinning stuff noted above. Once you learn the basic quirks of NFSv4, it seems to work much more reliably than v3 ever did for me. http://fedoraunity.org/solved/post-install-solutions/nfsv4-fedora My 2 cents... - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Thunderbird 3.0b3 IMAP IDLE
On 08/19/2009 10:47 AM, Chris Bredesen wrote: List, IMAP IDLE seems to have quit working for me in beta 3. It's either not working or it stops working after a very short duration. Anyone else seeing strange behavior with IMAP servers? I have a setup where several users watch the same IMAP mailbox. This seems to be flaky on 3.0b3. Someone will move a message to a different folder, but then the original message will re-appear in the original folder later for no reason. It used to work with previous versions. Anyway, it's always hard to pin down IMAP problems, but something does seem broken in TB with IMAP. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: good external hard drives (e.g. WD Elements)?
On 07/16/2009 09:58 AM, Tim wrote: Now I'm wondering what can be trusted as a medium for removable backups. I much prefer the notion of something like a drive that carries uncompressed copies of files, for direct access to a backup. Rather than serial access tapes, or terribly slow multi-DVD collections. I found USB drives to be hugely unreliable. I ended up removing the disks from their enclosures and using them inside the main computer chassis, like a normal drive. I think something is buggy with the USB drive implementation, though I don't know what exactly (kernel driver, enclosure electronics, who knows...) You might have better luck with eSATA drives, rather than USB. For my backups, I prefer to use something like rsnapshot (http://rsnapshot.org/) to copy files to a remote live computer. This works very well and very reliably, for me. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: fc11 and sshd problem
Thank you, that worked perfectly !!! I wondered if this was a selinux problem. This represents a change from previous versions. Can you give me references to reading material on this. All you really need to know is that selinux relies on file labeling. You can see how your files are labeled with ls -Z. When you copy files between systems, the labeling may get lost, depending on the method that you use. The default labeling can be restored using restorecon. I ran into this when copying ssh keys (like you), and when copying /etc/cups between computers to install a common set of printers. Reading /var/log/audit/audit.log will provide clues in situations like these. For more details, find the selinux FAQ on the web. The details get pretty gory, though... - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Security Cameras
On 06/30/2009 09:41 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: This may be a little off topic so please forgive me. I purchased a Security Camera in order to do some experiments. I have a WCS-2060 IP CamSecure made bywww.level1.com. I am suspicious that os of the camera is linux based, but there software is primarily made to communicate with MS Windows machines. Are any of you using any linux based opensource software to monitor security cameras and their output. What kind of linux options do we have? I use motion (http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome), which is in the repos. You can use it with common IP cameras like those from Axis, or with analog cameras + a video capture card. Some IP cameras may be incompatible, depending how tightly the manufacturer has tied the camera to the normally-supplied Windows software. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: fc11 and sshd problem
On 06/29/2009 02:07 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I have/root/.ssh/authorized_keys containing the *.pub keys of the remote unites, but fc11 is not using this to authenticate. Has anyone else had this problem? If you copy files into ~/.ssh, run this afterwards: restorecon -r ~/.ssh to fix the selinux labeling. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Thunderbird bug or feature?
On 06/18/2009 12:30 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: It displays fine when reading the message. the text after -- is a signature, and it's displayed in gray (which is correct). But when I hit Reply, the quoted text only goes up to the -- and doesn't quote anything below. In particular, the earlier mail exchange is below the signature, and didn't get quoted. Is this a bug or a feature? I didn't really pay attention to it before, but it may have always worked this way... It's an annoying feature. TB adds and recognizes the -- as a signature separator. You can see section 4.3 of http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3676.txt for some background. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Image Viewer for Fedora 10
Adeel Akbar wrote: Hi, Is there any Image viewer software that have at least some of the features of a software like Acdsee for Fedora Core 10 gThumb is similar to the older versions of ACDSee. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: What software is missing in the Fedora repository?
I would like to see moserial added. moserial is a clean, friendly gtk-based serial terminal for the gnome desktop. I use it daily for hardware hacking. http://live.gnome.org/moserial http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/moserial/2.26/ http://git.gnome.org/cgit/moserial It is written in vala, so there aren't a lot of good example rpm spec files to follow unfortunately... That is why I haven't attempted to package it myself. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: looking for pre-configured RHat derived server for mail
Claude Jones wrote: I know there are a number of Redhat/Centos/and even Fedora specialized distributions out there that are packaged for server use. Can any one recommend any that they've used? We have an aging mail server, Debian based, that is failing and need to replace quickly. GUI based would be a plus. I am only going to be able to marginally contribute to getting this going, but will probably be involved in maintenance. We just need to do mail with this machine. I've looked at SME and BlueOnyx so far, but, both seem to be command line based. I understand the security advantages of not running X but, we'd rather live with that downside and have a GUI for various reasons. Your experiences appreciated... You could use stock Fedora with postfix, with webmin to provide a web-based gui... - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: serious virtualization without HW support?
Robert P. J. Day wrote: and it occurs to me to ask whether anyone would want to get *seriously* into virtualization without having machines with those extensions. No. is it safe to say that, by now, most modern systems come with VT or AMD-V support? and by serious virtualization, i don't mean someone downloading and goofing around with it, i mean people who want to set up virtual corporate servers or mission-critical stuff. I run Windows as a guest OS on several machines. With the Intel vmx flag, performance is extremely good and quite usable. Without the vmx flag, it is useless. It is too slow to tolerate. Most new machines now have the virtualization flags. It's always worth checking before you buy, though. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: howto enable automatic updates without gui
Neal Becker wrote: How can I enable automatic updates on a F10 box without having a desktop login (that is, I have ssh access)? One way: put yum -y upgrade in crontab. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: serious virtualization without HW support?
Robert P. J. Day wrote: Most new machines now have the virtualization flags. It's always worth checking before you buy, though. i do recall reading somewhere that, yes, you have to be careful to check that the system not only has the virt extension but that it's *turned on*. i can't recall where i read that, does anyone have a URL? something about selling a system cheaper because you've simply disabled the extension, but advertising it as if it *does* have it. On my HP/Intel machines you have to enable the virtualization feature in the BIOS. It is off by default, and the option is oddly buried in a Security menu. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
computer freezes, disks spin, unhappiness abounds
Hi all, I have a bunch of HP DC7700, DC7800, and DC7900 computers running F10. The DC7700s are having trouble - they keep freezing up. The hard disk seems to go to constant activity, and everything else freezes up. Mouse movement works for a while (but clicks are ineffective), but then it too freezes up. The logs provide no useful info, and I can't log in during the freeze. Has anyone seen anything similar, or have suggestions for debugging? This started a few weeks ago. The DC7800s and DC7900s are fine, which suggests some weird hardware-specific kernel issue with the older DC7700s. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: computer freezes, disks spin, unhappiness abounds
Mogens Kjaer wrote: Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: ... This started a few weeks ago. The DC7800s and DC7900s are fine, which suggests some weird hardware-specific kernel issue with the older DC7700s. Does booting the old kernel help? Thanks for the suggestion; I'll try that after some BIOS updates... - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: computer freezes, disks spin, unhappiness abounds
Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: Hi all, I have a bunch of HP DC7700, DC7800, and DC7900 computers running F10. The DC7700s are having trouble - they keep freezing up. Hmm, it seems that people have been reporting this problem for years, regardless of OS: http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=1119370 I guess the DC7700s are duds. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: copying lvm with the same name
Frank Cox wrote: It looks like the machine can see the second drive and the lvm that's on it /dev/sdb2, but it has the same VolGroup name as /dev/sda2. Yes, this is common and annoying. Here is the guide that I followed when it happened to me: http://www.whoopis.com/howtos/linux_lvm_recovery.html I filed bug 461682 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461682), requesting that the default volume names not be so generic - they now incorporate the hostname, so this problem should be much less common in F11+. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Citrix client for F10?
fred smith wrote: Trying to install the latest Citrix client (downloaded from Citrix) and it insists on libXm.so.4. I have only libxm.so.2. The citrix web page says it requires OpenMOTIF 2.3.1 or later. I see Fedora isn't distributinig OpenMOTIF, but instead lesstif, which seems to have only libXm.so.2.0.1. I've tried: ln -s /usr/lib/libXm.so.2.0.1 /usr/lib/libXm.so.4 but that doesn't help, RPM still complains it needs libXm.so.4. Downloading OpenMOTIF requires registration, which I'm not especially interested in doing. Anybody know how to get this working on F10? It can be done, I do it. You need a copy of openmotif-2.2.3-10.FC4.2.i386.rpm. From my notes: 1) yum install libXp.i386 2) open openmotif-2.2.3-10.FC4.2.i386.rpm using file-roller, and extract the libXm.so.3.0.2 to /usr/lib 3) ln -s /usr/lib/libXm.so.3.0.2 /usr/lib/libXm.so.3 4) rpm -ivh ICAClient* 5) ln -s /usr/lib/ICAClient/npica.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ 6) chcon -t textrel_shlib_t /usr/lib/ICAClient/npica.so Hope this helps. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
broken nis in rawhide?
Is there some reason why rawhide's ypbind should fail to bind, if I have nsswitch.conf = passwd: files nis shadow: files nis group: files nis other stuff snipped This worked fine on F10, and it works OK if I downgrade to the F10 ypbind rawhide. But with the rawhide version, the nis server reports errors like this: Feb 2 14:15:28 server2 ypserv[2312]: refused connect from 192.168.0.89:56329 to procedure ypproc_match (nisavtech,shadow.byname;-1) Has something changed with nis sharing of shadow password data? Reported as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483650 - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: best video card for fedora 10
Petrus de Calguarium wrote: Stick with the motherboard's onboard Intel graphics. Supports 3D and works great on the modern desktop. No proprietary drivers required. Just install system and go! Unless you have one of the new systems like the HP DC7900, which has Intel graphics and a DisplayPort connector... and no other video connectors... DisplayPort is not yet supported by the intel driver, at all. I slapped in an ATI card to gain a DVI port, and used the open driver. Works fine now. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Call for vote: Nautilus use Browser view for fedora 11
2. I always was under the impression that gnome especially was a democracy but it turns out it's under dictatorship and then call it: Meritocracy with a dictator like taste. No, gnome is not a democracy at all, and does not claim to be. The individual module maintainers basically have total control over their modules. They can accept or reject patches and ideas. You can call that benevolent dictatorship if you like. Maintainers become maintainers by doing the bulk of the hard coding work. The Gnome Foundation board is elected, but the foundation does not aim to tell what the developers to do. It provides logistics, support, and advocacy. Just dispelling some notions... Personally, I don't like the spatial view either... or the fact that I can't rename a file from within the filechooser... Some of my patches are accepted. Some are rejected. C'est la vie. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
libvirt autostart VM is broken
Hi all, The libvirtd autostart VM option seems to be broken [1,2], so I need a work-around. How can I start the libvirtd service, and then (after the service has fully started) start a particular VM from the command line? (I can do this from the gui of course, but I want to stick it in a script). - Mike [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477025 [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/libvir-l...@redhat.com/msg09937.html -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: libvirt autostart VM is broken
Robert Locke wrote: fully started) start a particular VM from the command line? (I can do this from the gui of course, but I want to stick it in a script). Try the command line utility, virsh, as in virsh start domainname Exactly what I needed! Thanks! - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
serial port too fast for Core Duo?
I have an oscilloscope with a 19200 bps serial port on it. It works fine with my old Windows 2000 computer. But it will not work with the on-board serial port on my shiny new HP DC7900 with Fedora 10! 19200 bps is too fast, and the data is always (slightly) corrupted, regardless of what sort of flow control is used. Using a USB-to-RS232 dongle works, presumably because the dongle has a larger buffer than the normal 16 byte UART. Can linux really not handle a 19200 serial port transmission, without resorting to obscure IRQ re-prioritization hacks? - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
do DisplayPort monitors work with xorg?
I want to get my HP lp2475w monitor to work with the DisplayPort interface on my DC7900. Nothing seems to work at all... this is what xorg reports (with no xorg.conf file): X.Org X Server 1.5.3 Release Date: 5 November 2008 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 x86_64 Current Operating System: Linux pekkala 2.6.27.7-134.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 1 22:21:35 EST 2008 x86_64 Build Date: 16 November 2008 08:28:40PM Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.5.3-5.fc10 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Fri Dec 12 14:35:48 2008 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf (==) ServerLayout X.org Configured (**) |--Screen Screen0 (0) (**) | |--Monitor Monitor0 (**) | |--Device Card0 (**) |--Input Device Mouse0 (**) |--Input Device Keyboard0 (==) Automatically adding devices (==) Automatically enabling devices (==) Including the default font path catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d,built-ins. (**) FontPath set to: catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d, built-ins, catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d, built-ins (**) ModulePath set to /usr/lib64/xorg/modules (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd' or 'mouse' will be disabled. (WW) Disabling Mouse0 (WW) Disabling Keyboard0 (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory) (II) No APM support in BIOS or kernel (II) Loader magic: 0x7aec60 (II) Module ABI versions: X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4 X.Org Video Driver: 4.1 X.Org XInput driver : 2.1 X.Org Server Extension : 1.1 X.Org Font Renderer : 0.6 (II) Loader running on linux (--) using VT number 7 (--) PCI:*(0...@0:2:0) Intel Corporation Eaglelake Integrated Graphics Controller rev 3, Mem @ 0xf000/4194304, 0xe000/268435456, I/O @ 0x1230/8 (--) PCI: (0...@0:2:1) Intel Corporation Eaglelake Integrated Graphics Controller rev 3, Mem @ 0xf040/1048576 (II) System resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0x - 0x (0x1) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0x000f - 0x000f (0x1) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0x000c - 0x000e (0x3) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x - 0x0009 (0xa) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x - 0x (0x1) IX[B] [5] -1 0 0x - 0x (0x1) IX[B] (II) extmod will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. (II) dbe will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. (II) glx will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. (II) freetype will be loaded by default. (II) dri will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. (II) LoadModule: glx (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so (II) Module glx: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1 (==) AIGLX enabled (==) Exporting typical set of GLX visuals (II) Loading extension GLX (II) LoadModule: dbe (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions//libdbe.so (II) Module dbe: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1 (II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER (II) LoadModule: vnc (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions//libvnc.so (II) Module vnc: vendor=RealVNC Ltd compiled for 4.3.99.902, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1 (II) Loading extension VNC (II) LoadModule: extmod (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions//libextmod.so (II) Module extmod: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1 (II) Loading extension SELinux (II) Loading extension SHAPE (II) Loading extension MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD (II) Loading extension BIG-REQUESTS (II) Loading extension SYNC (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER (II) Loading extension XC-MISC (II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension (II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA (II) Loading extension DPMS (II) Loading extension TOG-CUP (II) Loading extension Extended-Visual-Information (II) Loading extension XVideo (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation (II) Loading extension X-Resource (II) LoadModule: dri (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions//libdri.so (II) Module dri: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 1.5.3, module
HP DC7900 tricks?
Has anyone installed F10-x86_64 on the new HP DC7900? Did you need any special kernel flags to make it work? - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
32 bit Python on 64 bit Fedora?
Is it possible to run a 32 bit Python on a 64 bit Fedora? Or have both 32 and 64 bit version co-existing? I would really rather not, but I have hardware that only provides 32 bit userland libraries (but with a 64 bit kernel driver). Which is weird... (Specifically, I'm trying to access a National Instruments GPIB card.) - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
good cordless mouse?
Can someone recommend a good, in-production, hassle-free cordless mouse with a middle-clickable scroll wheel? I would rather not mess with xorg.conf, and I can't seem to get the Logitech MX Revolution to just work (i.e. middle click doesn't work). My older MX Lasers work great, but they doesn't seem to be available any more. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: can't run logrotate
Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.daily
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
error: cannot open current directory: Permission denied
Looks like a permission problem of cron.daily
No, that's not it. It's failing at this line of source code:
here = open(., O_RDONLY);
Why wouldn't logrotate be able to open .? It must be selinux - I am
seeing stuff like
type=AVC msg=audit(1226307734.708:7252): avc: denied { read } for
pid=32085 comm=logrotate name=root dev=dm-0 ino=13028929
scontext=system_u:system_r:logrotate_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
tcontext=system_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0 tclass=dir
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1226307734.708:7252): arch=4003 syscall=5
success=no exit=-13 a0=80525d3 a1=8000 a2=0 a3=8000 items=0 ppid=32083
pid=32085 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0
tty=(none) ses=1164 comm=logrotate exe=/usr/sbin/logrotate
subj=system_u:system_r:logrotate_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)
I'll try touch /.autorelabel and see what happens...
- Mike
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can't run logrotate
I have a bunch of machines that are not happy about running logrotate daily. I get these error emails: Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.daily /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: cannot open current directory: Permission denied Does anyone know what would cause this? - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Error starting Gnome Settings Daemon?
Richard Shaw wrote: I just logged into my F9 laptop after some recent updates I got an error Error Starting Gnome Settings Daemon. Relogging nor rebooting helped. I tried moving my .gconf, .gconfd, .gnome2 directories and letting gnome recreate them but it didn't help. I searched the web but most everything I found was from 2006 or earlier. Anyone else having this problem or have suggestions? It could be a permissions issue. Make sure that all of your /home files are readable and writeable by you: chmod -R u+rw /home/richard Just a thought. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Reboot every 1 hour, 19 seconds
Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: HELP! On October 2, 10:00 we had a power outage (I turned my PC on at 17:00). Since then, my Fedora9 is rebooting approx every hour and 19 seconds. I have had a few power-failure-related problems lately. They were fixed by re-installing the filesystem rpm, like this: yumdownloader filesystem rpm -ivh --force filesystem*.rpm This makes sure that your key system files have the correct permissions. I don't know if this will fix your problem, but it's worth a try. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
nis users in gdm chooser list
Hi all, I thought that recent remote (nis) users were supposed to show up in the gdm chooser, based on: http://markmail.org/message/7orafrekd2jkavct but it doesn't happen for me on current F9 installs. Is there some trick to it? - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
consolekit broken?
Anyone know what could cause this? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ck-list-sessions ** (ck-list-sessions:4001): WARNING **: Failed to get list of seats: Failed to execute program /lib64/dbus-1/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success - Miek -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: f9 encrypted fs - how???
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: I see lots of references that F9 supports a encrypted filesystems natively and I recall that the installer even offered to set up encryption for me. The question is, how does one set up encryption later on? I can't find any recent documentation. Google has millions of hits for all sorts of crazy schemes dating back to very early fedoras, but I have yet to find documentation for how to do it in F9, other than reinstalling things from scratch. Anyone have any pointers? It's easy to configure encryption on a new, empty disk. I don't think you can apply it afterwards, however. Making a new install on a fresh disk and copying your files over afterwards is probably your best bet. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: kvm?
Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote: 2008/9/25 Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've been using virtualbox, and it's pretty nice. I'm wondering if any of the more open virtualization efforts have progressed to the point that I'd want to try replacing virtualbox. What I'm interested in is: 1) Able to run windoze/linux guest on linux x86_64 host 2) good performance (on modern hardware) 3) Decent gui I'm running WinXP on F9 x86_64 with kvm. It works amazingly well, assuming that your processor has the modern virtualization features (vmx flag, I think). There is a gui tool for root to manage the virtual machine(s). It works pretty well assuming the default network configuration (NAT) works for you. If you want to implement bridged routing instead, you have to manually edit the xml files. Client access to the virtual machine is provided through vnc (localhost:5900, for example), which is easy enough. Documentation is pretty minimal for everything. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
can't mount dvd, thumb drives, etc
I have F9 x86_64, which I installed from a revisor iso. When I insert a dvd into my drive, or a usb thumb drive into the usb port, the volumes are not auto-mounted. They appear in Nautilus under Computer, but right-clickmount doesn't work (no error messages appear). I suspect I'm missing some critical rpm. Sys Prefs Hardware Removable Drives and Media exists, but none of the tabs deal with dvd drives or thimb drives. I do have these rpms: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]$ rpm -qa | grep mount gnome-mount-nautilus-properties-0.8-1.fc9.x86_64 pam_mount-0.48-2.fc9.x86_64 gnome-mount-0.8-1.fc9.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-penmount-1.3.0-1.fc9.x86_64 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]$ rpm -qa | grep volume libvolume_id-124-2.fc9.x86_64 gnome-volume-manager-2.22.0-5.fc9.x86_64 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]$ rpm -qa | grep hal hal-info-20080607-1.fc9.noarch hal-0.5.11-2.fc9.x86_64 hal-libs-0.5.11-2.fc9.x86_64 hal-devel-0.5.11-2.fc9.x86_64 hal-cups-utils-0.6.16-4.fc9.x86_64 Suggestions? - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: can't mount dvd, thumb drives, etc
Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: When I insert a dvd into my drive, or a usb thumb drive into the usb port, the volumes are not auto-mounted. They appear in Nautilus under Computer, but right-clickmount doesn't work (no error messages appear). Some follow-up: running gnome-mount -v -d /dev/sr0 as root works fine. However, Nautilus still can't mount the drive as a normal user. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: techniques to fix damaged systems
rpm -qa | xargs yumdownloader rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm For the curious, this did in fact restore my system. I also ran touch /.autorelabel touch /.autofsck just in case. Thanks for the suggestions! - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
techniques to fix damaged systems
Hi all, One of my F9 systems experienced a utility power failure, and now non-root users can't log in. Googling based on the errors suggests that some critical library file has probably become corrupted. Could be anything, really. In cases like this I usually do rpm -qa | xargs yumdownloader rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm to re-install every single rpm. In theory, it should end up pretty much in the same state. It's worked well before, anyway. Is this the slickest method to rescue a limping system? Are there less hacky methods? I could re-install from cd/dvd or a revisor iso, but that seems to increase the odds of clicking the wrong button and overwriting my data... Tips welcome! - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: techniques to fix damaged systems
Todd Denniston wrote: Might have been useful to see the actual error message(s). [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# su - mjc su: warning: cannot change directory to /home/mjc: Permission denied su: /bin/bash: Permission denied The same thing happens to all users, except root. Something is badly broken in the login process. X does not start, and text console logins also fail. does /etc/nologin exist? No. try looking at `man rpm` rpm -verify -a ... At least this might reduce the reinstall you do. Thanks! That's a useful trick to know. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: techniques to fix damaged systems
Craig White wrote: The same thing happens to all users, except root. Something is badly broken in the login process. X does not start, and text console logins also fail. is it possible that /home is mounted as read-only or not mounted at all? No, /home is not a separate mount - it is under /. It is a simple system. You might first want to run e2fsck on all the file systems which I think you can invoke by issuing the following command (as root)... shutdown now -Fr Good idea! Thanks! - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Flash plugin - no sound
MKas wrote: Hello, I have F9. I installed flash plugin from adobe yum distro. But there's no sound when I run youtube or some page like that. Maybe someone knows where can be a problem? yum install libflashsupport would be my guess. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
kvm and non-nat networking
Can somebody point me to the correct method of configuring kvm virtualization so that the guest OS (Windows XP in my case) appears as a simple IP address on the host LAN (participating in local subnet broadcasts, etc)? I have kvm running now in the default mode, which implements NAT / DHCP. It works great, except I have some stupid Windows apps that need to communicate with stupid network appliances on the main LAN. They need to appear as same-subnet devices to the Windows apps. There is a little too much info out there about kvm/qemu networking, most of which is obsolete. Pointers appreciated! - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: help
Try this: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332781#c17 - Mike Dan Steele wrote: Hello When I got it to recognize the sound card a lot of update came through and now when I try to test the sound card it comes back with this message. audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink profile=music: Could not open audio device for playback.You don't have permission to open the device. Could you please explain I am not a programmer and do not understand?? Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: sound on HP DC7700
Jeremy Jongepier wrote: Hello Mike, The DC 7700 has an onboard Realtek ALC262 soundcard, probably bridged through an Intel ICH9 chipset. You could try installing the latest Alsa drivers (1.0.17) and check the documentation that comes with these drivers for any modprobe options. Hmm... sound does work if I'm logged in as root - I can use gnome-sound-properties and the volume applet just fine. But not as a normal user. Any ideas how to fix that? Maybe this is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332781 My alsa-info.sh details are at: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=21bb1e27fae1967000c7288406e3fe8ddfe3caa3 - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: blue screen of death after logout
I suspect that the intel driver has a bug. ... and switching to an ATI 2600PRO card and using the radeonhd driver seems to have fixed the problem. So I'd say the intel driver has a bug. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: blue screen of death after logout
If your Multisync is like some of mine it has dual input capability. Sometimes when changing modes (such as after logout) the monitor gets Why does the monitor change modes after logout, anyway? gdm isn't working at a different resolution than the desktop... - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: blue screen of death after logout
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 08:08 -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: If your Multisync is like some of mine it has dual input capability. Sometimes when changing modes (such as after logout) the monitor gets Why does the monitor change modes after logout, anyway? gdm isn't working at a different resolution than the desktop... Could be because the X server is restarted. Does the X server have to be restarted for every login? Or is that overkill by gdm? - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: blue screen of death after logout
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Does the X server have to be restarted for every login? I don't know about now, but it's been found to be advantageous to, in the past. X is big, and if it eats your memory as it runs, it can be a problem on systems that run continuously. There was a time when it didn't restart, then a few releases back it was decided that it should. I for one am happier the way it is now because Is this configurable? my X server definitely leaks memory quite severely. I posted about this a while back (see https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-September/msg00036.html) but got no reaction. The problem is quite solid and reproducible. I was holding off reporting it to BZ in case any of the pending updates fixed it but they haven't. You should post your results to [EMAIL PROTECTED] They will get more serious attention there. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
blue screen of death after logout
Hi all, I have an HP DC7700 with an ADD2/DVI card driving a 1600x1200 NEC Multisync monitor, using the stock Fedora 9 intel driver. Sometimes, after logging out of a Fedora 9 gnome session, the screen goes all blue. Bringing up a text session (Ctrl+F1) works OK, but X will not run properly after hitting Ctrl+F7 or Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. Restarting the computer is the only solution for clearing the blue screen in X. I haven't found any useful log messages. It is an erratic problem. Has anyone else seen this? It's really annoying! Swapping ADD2 cards made no difference. Swapping monitors made no difference. Swapping the computer made no difference. i386 vs x86_64 made no difference. Installing xorg* from rawhide didn't work at all, too raw I guess... - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: blue screen of death after logout
Sometimes, after logging out of a Fedora 9 gnome session, the screen goes all blue. Bringing up a text session (Ctrl+F1) works OK, but X By any chance is your keyboard (or mouse) connected in some interesting way? Like wireless, through KVM switch, USB, or anything else other than PS/2 cable? I have seen somewhat similar problems with input static. And see below... No, nothing like that. If your Multisync is like some of mine it has dual input capability. Sometimes when changing modes (such as after logout) the monitor gets wedged. Next time you see it try power cycling the monitor, even shutting down and pulling the plug to force a reboot might be needed. Hmm, I haven't actually tried a pull-the-plug on the monitor. (I did use the power switch, but maybe that isn't enough). I'll try it, thanks for the suggestion ... - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: blue screen of death after logout
Mine occasionally change to reading the other inputs, if you have input selection you might try that. Or just another monitor, to see if the monitor is in any way the culprit. No, it's not that... the screen is blue, but if I move the mouse, I can see the gdm login dialog flicker by and disappear again (with incorrect sizing, etc). And the display pops up a status message saying that it is using the DVI input at 1600x1200, which is right. I tried NEC Multisync LCD2170 and LCD2190 monitors, and they both did the same thing, so it isn't a dud monitor. I suspect that the intel driver has a bug. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
sound on DC7800?
Does anyone have sound working on an HP DC7800 (x86-64)? If so, was any modprobe trickery needed? - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: sound on DC7800?
Do you see anything wrong here? No. It has always worked for me. F9 x86_64 fully updated (whatever this means these days :-) ). Check: Is sound disabled in bios (if this is possible)? Does it work if you log in as a different user? As root? Hmm, the error messages go away if I'm logged in as root, and the test buttons appear to work, but I hear no sound. Sigh. I guess I'll just cross my fingers and hope that some random kernel upgrade fixes it. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
DC7700 + intel = no gigabit speeds
Hi all, I have a multiple HP DC7700s with integrated Intel ethernet adapters. They work when the network cable is plugged into a 10/100 port on a switch. They do not work when plugged into a 10/100/1000 port. I also have DC7700s with integrated Broadcom chips (tg3 driver) and they work fine. They all worked fine before the upgrade to F9. From dmesg: e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 0.2.0 e1000e: Copyright (c) 1999-2007 Intel Corporation. ... eth0: (PCI Express:2.5GB/s:Width x1) 00:0f:fe:4a:68:37 eth0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection eth0: MAC: 4, PHY: 6, PBA No: 1002ff-0ff Forcing 100 Mb operation with: ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off speed 100 duplex full makes everything work OK. Forcing 1 Gb operation results in flaky or dead connections. The auto-negotiated 1 Gb state is flaky/dead. Now... I can force 100 Mb operation as a workaround, but does anyone know what's causing this bug? http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453023 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10990 - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: samba F9 problem - matchname: host name/address mismatch
Craig White wrote: I suppose that you could up the log level of samba to get more useful logs but then you'd have to go through the logs to figure it out. Did that, and ... drum roll ... found the problem! Current samba releases disable lanman authentication by default. And they quietly delete the old lanman hashes from the user database. A double whammy: http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2007-September/055549.html I had to add: lanman auth = yes client plaintext auth = yes# not sure if this is needed client lanman auth = yes AND reset the W98 user's password in Samba. Thanks for your suggestions, Craig! - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: openoffice + postgresql-jdbc
Bassel Safadi wrote: What magic is needed to make the openoffice-base program recognize the postgresql-jdbc driver? Just googled your question and found this step by step tutorial: http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/index.php?/archives/8-Using-OpenOffice-Base-2.3.1-with-PostgreSQL.html Thanks, I did not find that article during my searches! It looks very useful. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
openoffice + postgresql-jdbc
Hi all, What magic is needed to make the openoffice-base program recognize the postgresql-jdbc driver? I want to use oo-base to access a pgsql database. The pgsql sdbc driver for oo-base has some bugs, so I'd like to use the jdbc driver. Does oo only work with Sun java? Or is OpenJDK OK? Or what? Help most appreciated... - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
samba F9 problem - matchname: host name/address mismatch
A Windows 98 machine of mine can not access samba shares after the samba server was upgraded to F9. It worked OK before the upgrade. The samba logs say: [2008/06/20 13:45:23, 0] lib/util_sock.c:matchname(1670) matchname: host name/address mismatch: :::192.168.0.93 != engraver.domain.avtechpulse.com [2008/06/20 13:45:23, 0] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_name(1791) Matchname failed on engraver.domain.avtechpulse.com :::192.168.0.93 The ::: may be the source of confusion. The DNS should be OK: [EMAIL PROTECTED] samba]# ping engraver PING engraver.domain.avtechpulse.com (192.168.0.93) 56(84) bytes of data. Similar issues reported here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=192091 http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=192136 Any suggestions? - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
