Wiki soft

[Luc MAIGNAN]

Hi,

I need to setup a wiki system for my company. I need something simple to 
use, but robust, customizable with a database support (MySql or PostgreSql)


What is the best choice ?

Thanks for advices

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Re: Flash 10.1 beta

[davide]

Il Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:09:35 -0500, Matthew Saltzman ha scritto:

> Is your system 32- or 64-bit?

32

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Re: Flash 10.1 beta

[davide]

Il Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:45:58 -0600, Frank Cox ha scritto:

>> 
>> How should I install it correctly?
> 
> Remove the old one first.

I copied it on this position and it works now:
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/nswrapper_32_32.libflashplayer.so

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Re: Preupgrade not possible ???

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 11/24/2009 12:48 PM, Luc MAIGNAN wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I still have the following error while preupgrading :
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-cli.py", line 312, in 
> pu.main(myrelease)
>   File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-cli.py", line 175, in main
> self.setup(myrelease)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/preupgrade/__init__.py", line
> 130, in setup
> self.complete_repo_setup()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/preupgrade/__init__.py", line
> 328, in complete_repo_setup
> repo._grabfunc.opts.user_agent = __user_agent__
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'opts'

Refer to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538118 for the bug
report and workaround. Also

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_PreUpgrade#Troubleshooting

Rahul

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Preupgrade not possible ???

[Luc MAIGNAN]

Hi,

I still have the following error while preupgrading :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-cli.py", line 312, in 
pu.main(myrelease)
  File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-cli.py", line 175, in main
self.setup(myrelease)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/preupgrade/__init__.py", line 
130, in setup

self.complete_repo_setup()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/preupgrade/__init__.py", line 
328, in complete_repo_setup

repo._grabfunc.opts.user_agent = __user_agent__
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'opts'


In the forum, I was said it is a bug.

Does anyone know when it will be fixed ?
Anyway to workaround it and make a preupgrade ?

BR

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Re: Part of hard disk disappeared after installing Fedora 12?

[fedora]

check your LVM settings, apparently, the partition mounted as / is from 
an LVM construct.

pvdisplay
vgdisplay
lvdisplay

suomi

On 2009-11-23 21:19, M. Fioretti wrote:


On Mon, November 23, 2009 9:13 pm, M. Fioretti wrote:

I have pasted below the outputs of fdisk -l and mount. Please don't
hesitate to suggest more commands, ask more information etc..

Thanks in advance for any feedback,


Sorry, here they are:

[r...@polaris /]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000acea3

Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *   1  26  204800   83  Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2  26   30401   243991201   8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/dm-0: 239.4 GB, 239427649536 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 29108 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-1: 10.4 GB, 10418651136 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1266 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
[r...@polaris /]#

#
[r...@polaris /]# mount
/dev/mapper/vg_polaris-lv_root on / type ext4 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,rootcontext="system_u:object_r:tmpfs_t:s0")
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext4 (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/neo/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon
(rw,nosuid,nodev,user=neo)
[r...@polaris /]#



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rationale for installing .jar files under /usr/share/doc?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  i just installed the xerces-j2 package on f12, and was a bit taken
aback to see that the .jar files that come with were installed along
with other xerces content under /usr/share/doc/xerces-j2-2.7.1.

  that just seems odd -- to have them installed in a documentation
directory.  i checked to see if that's a new standard of some kind
but, apparently, it's only xerces that does that:

$ cd /usr/share/doc
$ find . -name "*.jar"
./xerces-j2-2.7.1/build/xercesImpl.jar
./xerces-j2-2.7.1/build/xercesSamples.jar
./xerces-j2-2.7.1/build/xml-commons-resolver.jar
./xerces-j2-2.7.1/build/xml-commons-apis.jar
./xerces-j2-2.7.1/tools/bin/xjavac.jar
./xerces-j2-2.7.1/tools/xalan.jar
./xerces-j2-2.7.1/tools/xml-commons-resolver.jar
./xerces-j2-2.7.1/tools/xml-commons-apis.jar
$

  is there a rationale for that?  should we be expecting more packages
to be doing that?

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Re: F12 Bind and Dnssec

[Tim]

On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 22:38 -0500, Ed Gurski wrote:
> expected IP address near 'dnssec-enable'
>
> dnssec-enable yes;
> dnssec-validation yes;
> dnssec-lookaside . trust-anchor dlv.isc.org.;

I haven't played with Fedora 12 and dnssec, yet, just simpler DNS
configuration on prior Fedora releases, but I wonder whether a simple
syntax error is causing a parsing problem.  I see an example of that
sort of configuration, but theirs has quotes around the dot and the
domain name.

e.g. dnssec-lookaside "." trust-anchor "dlv.isc.org.";

See:  http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/publications/dnssec_howto/index.html

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Re: No F-12 NFS mounts at boot -

[Tom H]

>   NFS has worked for me without many problems from F10 to F11 but on
>   the new F12 install I have to mount nfs manually after boot.

fstab may be trying to mount your nfs mounts before the network is up.
If this is the case, adding "_netdev" to your nfs mounts will solve
your problem.

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Re: Screenshot Tutorial: How to D-I-Y your own Google Chrome OS with Xen-based Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala amd64 Virtual Machine in Fedora 11 x86_64 Pv-Ops Dom0

[Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
 wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
>  wrote:
>> Google Chrome OS Download
>>
>> Filename: Google-Chrome-OS-Build-enming.teo-22Nov2009-0704hrs.vmdk
>>
>> Filesize: 697.38MB
>>
>> Type: VMware VMDK image file
>>
>> MD5 Checksum: 1aec57157dd2083b166e493c0e831a
>> 67
>>
>> Download link: http://www.zshare.net/download/68819648ff817281/
>>
>>
>
> Dear All,
>
> My previous build can't work due to bugs. Here is the latest build that works!
>
> Latest Google Chrome OS Download: Guaranteed to Work!
>
> Filename: Google-Chrome-OS-build-enming.teo-24Nov2009-0528.vmdk.bz2
>
> Filesize: 280 MB
>
> Type: VMware VMDK image file bzipped
>
> MD5 Checksum: 23371970c3b1c5dee287b9bb97901b7d
>
> Download Link #1: http://www.zshare.net/download/689075349802a081/
>
> How to Use:
>
> 1. Decompress with bzip2 on Linux.
>
> $ bzcat Google-Chrome-OS-build-enming.teo-24Nov2009-0528.vmdk.bz2
>
> 2. Use as virtual harddisk with the open source Xen hypervisor, Sun
> VirtualBox, VMware Workstation, or VMware Player
>
> 3. To convert the VMDK image file to Xen HVM domU image file for use
> with Xen, follow the instructions at the following link.
>
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/VMDKImage
>
>
>
>

2nd download link:
http://www.filefactory.com/file/a1d69he/n/Google-Chrome-OS-build-enming.teo-24Nov2009-0528.vmdk.bz2

Please let me know how it works on your system.

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Re: pdf editor to simply insert notes?

[Darlene Wallach]

Robert,

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Robert P. J. Day  wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Trever L. Adams wrote:
>
>> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> >   a colleague has a sizable book whose source is in docbook format,
>> > and i want to mark it up with notes all over the place.  with an odt
>> > or doc file, i would of course just open it in oowriter and insert
>> > notes at will.
>> >
>> >   with docbook, though, he's going to send me the PDF format of the
>> > book, but i still don't know of a tool that will let me insert notes.
>> > i have no need for general editing, just notes.  thoughts?
>> >
>> > rday
>> >
>>
>> You may want to look at xournal as well. At least I believe that is
>> the name. It will be close if it isn't. One of the things it
>> specifically does is annotate pdf files.
>
>  just downloaded it, it might be adequate for what i'm after, but i'm
> still hoping for true "insert note" functionality.  i suspect i'm not
> going to find that.

If you do, let me know. I'm interested in the same functionality.
>
> rday

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F12 Bind and Dnssec

[Ed Gurski]

I just installed F12 fn a preciously running F11 machine. 

I backed up all my configurations and for the most part everything is
back up and running except for Bind.

I know that in F11 BIND introduced DNSSEC and I had it working
perfectly. Now in F12, BIND fails with the following message:

expected IP address near 'dnssec-enable'

Here is a copy of my named.conf (it is chroot'ed and Selinux is in
permissive mode):

options {
directory "/var/named";
dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
listen-on { 10.25.240.10;};
// forward first;
forward only;
forwarders {
// OpenDNS
208.67.222.222;
208.67.220.220;
dnssec-enable yes;
dnssec-validation yes;
dnssec-lookaside . trust-anchor dlv.isc.org.;
};

};


Has something changed in F12

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Re: pdf editor to simply insert notes?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Trever L. Adams wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   a colleague has a sizable book whose source is in docbook format,
> > and i want to mark it up with notes all over the place.  with an odt
> > or doc file, i would of course just open it in oowriter and insert
> > notes at will.
> >
> >   with docbook, though, he's going to send me the PDF format of the
> > book, but i still don't know of a tool that will let me insert notes.
> > i have no need for general editing, just notes.  thoughts?
> >
> > rday
> >
>
> You may want to look at xournal as well. At least I believe that is
> the name. It will be close if it isn't. One of the things it
> specifically does is annotate pdf files.

  just downloaded it, it might be adequate for what i'm after, but i'm
still hoping for true "insert note" functionality.  i suspect i'm not
going to find that.

rday
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Can' start a vpnc session over wlan0

[Terry Polzin]

My wlan0 device a zydas chipset usb dongle works fine until I try to start a 
vpnc session. vpn startup just sits there and doesn't connect, works fine over 
a wired connection.  Same hardware worked without issues under f11.

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Re: pdf editor to simply insert notes?

[Trever L. Adams]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   a colleague has a sizable book whose source is in docbook format,
> and i want to mark it up with notes all over the place.  with an odt
> or doc file, i would of course just open it in oowriter and insert
> notes at will.
>
>   with docbook, though, he's going to send me the PDF format of the
> book, but i still don't know of a tool that will let me insert notes.
> i have no need for general editing, just notes.  thoughts?
>
> rday
>   

You may want to look at xournal as well. At least I believe that is the
name. It will be close if it isn't. One of the things it specifically
does is annotate pdf files.

Trever



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[SOLVED] Re: keyboard problem after F12 upgrade

[Craig White]

sort of anyway...

Problems began with update to F12 and using motherboard nVidia hardware
(old)

had to remove/move xorg.conf

restarted but I could not get beyond 1024x768 with nouveau and only with
'nomodesetting' kernel parameter because without, I could not get beyond
800x600

So I went back to xorg.conf, (still with 'nomodesetting') and I could
get 1280x1024 but the keyboard was wacky as described below.

I finally fixed this by changing 'kbd' Driver to 'evdev' in xorg.conf

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540538

Craig

On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 14:41 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> Upgrade didn't go exactly as planned and I have it mostly cleaned up but
> one thing is driving me crazy now, it's the keyboard.
> 
> When I press the down arrow on the keyboard, it sends a  and
> puts me on a new line whether I am in Konsole, or Evolution or ? but not
> in a a virtual console . Changed user...same problem.
> Changed to GNOME...same problem.
> 
> Reinstalled (via yum reinstall ...)
>  xorg-x11-xkb-utils 
>  xorg-x11-drv-keyboard 
>  xorg-x11-utils
>  bash
>  xkeyboard-config
> 
> xev reports...
> 
> down arrow...
> KeyPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x3c1,
> root 0x122, subw 0x0, time 7393966, (-395,37), root:(703,841),
> state 0x0, keycode 104 (keysym 0xff8d, KP_Enter), same_screen YES,
> "   XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (0d) "
> "   XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (0d) "
> XFilterEvent returns: False
> 
> KeyRelease event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x3c1,
> root 0x122, subw 0x0, time 7394126, (-395,37), root:(703,841),
> state 0x0, keycode 104 (keysym 0xff8d, KP_Enter), same_screen YES,
> "   XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (0d) "
> XFilterEvent returns: False
> 
> up arrow (which doesn't flip through history in Konsole :-)
> 
> KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x3c1,
> root 0x122, subw 0x0, time 7391753, (-395,37), root:(703,841),
> state 0x0, keycode 98 (keysym 0xff26, Katakana), same_screen YES,
> XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
> XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:   
> XFilterEvent returns: False  
> 
> KeyRelease event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x3c1,
> root 0x122, subw 0x0, time 7391940, (-395,37), root:(703,841),
> state 0x0, keycode 98 (keysym 0xff26, Katakana), same_screen YES,
> XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
> XFilterEvent returns: False  
> 
> How can I fix?
> 
> I also note that I am not receiving e-mail from the list and have
> appealed to RH admins to track the bounces for me to no avail but I will
> monitor the archive for possible solutions if they aren't mailed
> directly to me.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Craig
> 
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Re: modprobe.conf

[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:53:21 -0800
Rick Stevens wrote:

> Can you remove it?  Yes.  I'd be curious to know what's whining.

It happens several places, anytime any of the init scripts does
anything that touches kernel modules. The whine is now built
into the kernel module tools.

I guess if I was really curious I could write a script to scan all the
rpms on the DVD iso image for one with a script that mentions
modprobe.conf and maybe find out who created it (but I'm probably
not that curious :-).

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Re: securing mysql server on Fedora/CentOS

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 17:40 -0800, Ed Landaveri wrote:
> Ladies, gentleman,
> 
> I'm trying to secure a mysql server and according to the MySQL certification 
> guide the file system mysql install directories should be owned by the 
> user/group mysql.mysql. Also the server should be started using NOT the root 
> account but the mysql account which easily can be done by modifying 
> /etc/my.cnf file.
> Assuming that /usr/local is the installation if you did install from a tar 
> ball to this directory this must be done:
> 
> chown -R mysql.mysql /usr/local
> chmod u =rwx,go=rx /usr/local
> chmod u =rwx,go=rx /usr/local/mysql/bin
> chmod u =rwx,go=rx /usr/local/mysql/libexec
> chmod  -R go=rx /usr/local/mysql/data
> Also:
> chown mysql.mysql /etc/my.cnf
> chmod 666 /etc/my.cnf
> 
>  Since I installed mysql upon installation and runs a a daemon is the 
> /var/lib/mysql directory the mysql installation directory? Is there any other 
> installation directory that I have to modify ownership, permissions to secure 
> the mysql server? Has anyone done this before? I will really appreciate your 
> answers? Thank you very much.

I find much of the logic here flawed including the basic premise that
there is a reason to install mysql other than the packaged version.

The packaged version of mysql server does indeed start as root and then
switches to user mysql for the server and if you find that
objectionable, you should be running an LFS system and not a packaged
system like Fedora because that is the way basically everything operates
on Fedora.

Do you actually believe that a tarball compiled version of mysql could
ever be as secure as the packaged install with SELinux installed? I wish
you good luck on making SELinux happy with your tarball installation and
am pretty much convinced that you have disabled SELinux.

Also - FWIW

Why on earth would you be changing permissions of /usr/local at all?

chmod 666 /etc/my.cnf makes absolutely no sense in terms of security
whatsoever...do you understand permissions at all? I mean think about
it...if the perms are 666 does it even matter who the owner/group are?

I don't mean to be unduly harsh but reading through all of this just
makes me laugh.

Craig


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Re: Multi-boot: Making windows partitions bootable?

[Tony Nelson]

On 09-11-23 16:53:48, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
 ...
> How exactly did you use `dd'?
 ...

dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb

Use the appropriate (unmounted) devices, of course.

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Re: Fedora-release RPMS ?

[Tony Nelson]

On 09-11-23 18:45:00, davide wrote:

> I'll keep also the show-leaves one. I'd like to keep the system 
> clean, as I was used to do in Debian.

But Fedora lacks "unmarkauto", so you may get more leaves than you 
might want.  It also makes yum slower. :-(

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Re: modprobe.conf

[Rick Stevens]

On 11/23/2009 05:45 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:

I have both 32 and 64 bit fedora 12 on different partitions,
both installed from the respective DVD iso images, both
installed with near identical package selections (I have
virtualization on 64 bit, but didn't bother on 32 bit).

The 32 bit version whines about /etc/modprobe.conf existing
at several points during the boot, and there is indeed
a totally empty /etc/modprobe.conf file on the system.

If I try to find out where it came from, I get this:

[r...@zooty /]# rpm -q -f /etc/modprobe.conf
file /etc/modprobe.conf is not owned by any package

So some 32 bit package I installed created this
file, but won't own up to it :-).

I supposed it wouldn't hurt anything to delete it
since it is empty?


/etc/modprob.conf is not owned by an RPM as it's not distributed as
part of an RPM.  It is created during installation by a script.

Can you remove it?  Yes.  I'd be curious to know what's whining.
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Re: securing mysql server on Fedora/CentOS

[Sam Varshavchik]

Ed Landaveri writes:


Ladies, gentleman,

I'm trying to secure a mysql server and according to the MySQL
certification guide the file system mysql install directories should be
owned by the user/group mysql.mysql. Also the server should be started
using NOT the root account but the mysql account which easily can be done
by modifying /etc/my.cnf file.
Assuming that /usr/local is the installation if you did install from a tar ball 
to this directory this must be done:

chown -R mysql.mysql /usr/local
chmod u =rwx,go=rx /usr/local


Any particular reason you want to brew something yourself, instead of a 
simple "yum install mysql-server", which sets all of this up, for you?




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modprobe.conf

[Tom Horsley]

I have both 32 and 64 bit fedora 12 on different partitions,
both installed from the respective DVD iso images, both
installed with near identical package selections (I have
virtualization on 64 bit, but didn't bother on 32 bit).

The 32 bit version whines about /etc/modprobe.conf existing
at several points during the boot, and there is indeed
a totally empty /etc/modprobe.conf file on the system.

If I try to find out where it came from, I get this:

[r...@zooty /]# rpm -q -f /etc/modprobe.conf
file /etc/modprobe.conf is not owned by any package

So some 32 bit package I installed created this
file, but won't own up to it :-).

I supposed it wouldn't hurt anything to delete it
since it is empty?

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Re: Can anyone with a 64bit Fedora11 check something for me.

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Reg Clemens wrote:

>
> Im confused here.
> Im getting an error message from Anacron, that states:
>
> /usr/bin/ldd: line 163: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: cannot execute binary file
>
> and this is true, the file mentioned is  symbolic link to /lib/ld-2.10.1.so
> which is  32bit library.  The 64bit symbolic link/library are in /lib64.
>
> So my question.
> Can you check your machine, and see if you have these two files in lib, viz
>   /lib/ld-2.10.1.so
>   /lib/ld-linux.so.2
> actually any ld-* files are of interest.
> I SUSPECT that they should not be there, and I have no idea how they
> got there, but I would like to check another Fedora11/64bit instalation.
>

  i have no such files.  i'm working with a fresh 64-bit f12 install
that has not yet been polluted with any 32-bit packages.

$ ls /lib/ld*
ls: cannot access /lib/ld*: No such file or directory
$ ls /lib64/ld*
/lib64/ld-2.11.so  /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
$


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securing mysql server on Fedora/CentOS

[Ed Landaveri]

Ladies, gentleman,

I'm trying to secure a mysql server and according to the MySQL certification 
guide the file system mysql install directories should be owned by the 
user/group mysql.mysql. Also the server should be started using NOT the root 
account but the mysql account which easily can be done by modifying /etc/my.cnf 
file.
Assuming that /usr/local is the installation if you did install from a tar ball 
to this directory this must be done:

chown -R mysql.mysql /usr/local
chmod u =rwx,go=rx /usr/local
chmod u =rwx,go=rx /usr/local/mysql/bin
chmod u =rwx,go=rx /usr/local/mysql/libexec
chmod  -R go=rx /usr/local/mysql/data
Also:
chown mysql.mysql /etc/my.cnf
chmod 666 /etc/my.cnf

 Since I installed mysql upon installation and runs a a daemon is the 
/var/lib/mysql directory the mysql installation directory? Is there any other 
installation directory that I have to modify ownership, permissions to secure 
the mysql server? Has anyone done this before? I will really appreciate your 
answers? Thank you very much.


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Re: Screenshot Tutorial: How to D-I-Y your own Google Chrome OS with Xen-based Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala amd64 Virtual Machine in Fedora 11 x86_64 Pv-Ops Dom0

[Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)]

> This download also quits after 239997 bytes are downloaded.

I am now uploading to a 2nd file sharing site...



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Re: Autofs under Fedora-12

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

Tim  writes:
> Mogens Kjaer:
>>> I would have made (after umount /common and removing
>>> the empty folder /common):
>>> 
>>> ln -s /net/alfred/common /common
>>> 
>>> then autofs does the mounting automatically as soon as you
>>> access the /common folder.
>
> Timothy Murphy:
>> I'm not clear on this.
>> With the autofs setting I have, if it works,
>> the directory is mounted (invisibly) as soon as I try to access it.
>
> Yes, that is what should happen.  I've been doing something just like
> Mogens Kjaer outlined, for many years.

I don't know when the ghost option for automount mounts appeared, but it
is a good thing to enable.  With it enabled automount shows you the
names of of all the mountable directories.  I'm surprised it isn't the
default.  It is darn useful.  To enable just add it to the end of the
repective mount lines in auto.master.

auto.master:
/home   /etc/auto.home --ghost 
-fstype=nfs4,hard,intr,nodev,nosuid,noatime,nodiratime

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Re: Fedora-release RPMS ?

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 11/24/2009 06:45 AM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:

> Is this one of the few times when a 'yum clean all' is a good idea?
> 
> (eg. Will yum even still find all the old cached files when the release
> version changes like that?  If not, it might be a good time to do a full
> housecleaning and nuke the old rpm files.)

If the repo content matches the cache, yum will reuse it. It doesn't
matter whether the release has changed or not. Not all packages are
rebuild for every release.

Rahul

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Re: Fedora-release RPMS ?

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

Rahul Sundaram  writes:
> On 11/24/2009 03:00 AM, Jim wrote:
>> What is the latest fedora-release and fedora-release-notes rpms.
>> I have ;
>> fedora-release-12-2
>> fedora-release-notes-12.0.2-1.fc12
>> 
>> I'm not getting any updates and a lot of "can't find a lot of fedora repos"
>
> # yum clean metadata
>
> Try again.  If that doesn't work, post the output of

Is this one of the few times when a 'yum clean all' is a good idea?

(eg. Will yum even still find all the old cached files when the release
version changes like that?  If not, it might be a good time to do a full
housecleaning and nuke the old rpm files.)

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Re: F12 EEEPC 1000H WLAN with hidden SSID no go

[Tim]

On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 19:01 +0100, Bernd Bartmann wrote:
> Any ideas how to get this going on the EEEPC in F12?

First hint:  Stop hiding your SSID, and see if it works.

Info:  Hiding your SSID doesn't make you more secure, it doesn't even
hide your access point from other people, it just shows up as an
un-named access point.  Your access point is still, merrily,
transmitting beacon pulses (probably several times a second, by
default), announcing that there's an access point, here.

The SSID is an important part of normal networking.  When you
deliberately break things, you can expect problems to crop up.

And if you have neighbours who have followed the same silly advice about
hiding their SSID, it gets even more tricky for you all to connect to
the right access points.

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Re: Screenshot Tutorial: How to D-I-Y your own Google Chrome OS with Xen-based Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala amd64 Virtual Machine in Fedora 11 x86_64 Pv-Ops Dom0

[Ed Greshko]

Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
>  wrote:
>   
>> Google Chrome OS Download
>>
>> Filename: Google-Chrome-OS-Build-enming.teo-22Nov2009-0704hrs.vmdk
>>
>> Filesize: 697.38MB
>>
>> Type: VMware VMDK image file
>>
>> MD5 Checksum: 1aec57157dd2083b166e493c0e831a
>> 67
>>
>> Download link: http://www.zshare.net/download/68819648ff817281/
>>
>>
>> 
>
> Dear All,
>
> My previous build can't work due to bugs. Here is the latest build that works!
>
> Latest Google Chrome OS Download: Guaranteed to Work!
>
> Filename: Google-Chrome-OS-build-enming.teo-24Nov2009-0528.vmdk.bz2
>
> Filesize: 280 MB
>
> Type: VMware VMDK image file bzipped
>
> MD5 Checksum: 23371970c3b1c5dee287b9bb97901b7d
>
> Download Link #1: http://www.zshare.net/download/689075349802a081/
>
> How to Use:
>
> 1. Decompress with bzip2 on Linux.
>
> $ bzcat Google-Chrome-OS-build-enming.teo-24Nov2009-0528.vmdk.bz2
>
> 2. Use as virtual harddisk with the open source Xen hypervisor, Sun
> VirtualBox, VMware Workstation, or VMware Player
>
> 3. To convert the VMDK image file to Xen HVM domU image file for use
> with Xen, follow the instructions at the following link.
>
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/VMDKImage
>
>
>
>
>   
This download also quits after 239997 bytes are downloaded.

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Re: bug in usb_modeswitch

[Tim]

On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 19:28 +0100, Antonio M wrote:
> how do I report a bug against it if not included in package list in
> bugzilla???

As general advice:  If you want to report a bug against something, but
you don't know what package it belongs to, you can go through the
following steps:

Assuming you had a problem with "locate," you'd use the "which" command
to find out what binaries are actually involved.

  [...@gonzales ~]$ which -a locate
  /usr/bin/locate

That'll list which "locate" files are on your system (there may be more
than one, in different paths).  Then you'd use the "rpm" command to find
out what package owns it:

  [...@gonzales ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/locate
  mlocate-0.21-1.fc9.i386

Now you have the package name for what it comes from.  And that's the
package you'd make a bugzilla report about.  Although, strictly
speaking, the bugzilla reports are about source packages (the source for
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Re: Screenshot Tutorial: How to D-I-Y your own Google Chrome OS with Xen-based Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala amd64 Virtual Machine in Fedora 11 x86_64 Pv-Ops Dom0

[Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
 wrote:
> Google Chrome OS Download
>
> Filename: Google-Chrome-OS-Build-enming.teo-22Nov2009-0704hrs.vmdk
>
> Filesize: 697.38MB
>
> Type: VMware VMDK image file
>
> MD5 Checksum: 1aec57157dd2083b166e493c0e831a
> 67
>
> Download link: http://www.zshare.net/download/68819648ff817281/
>
>

Dear All,

My previous build can't work due to bugs. Here is the latest build that works!

Latest Google Chrome OS Download: Guaranteed to Work!

Filename: Google-Chrome-OS-build-enming.teo-24Nov2009-0528.vmdk.bz2

Filesize: 280 MB

Type: VMware VMDK image file bzipped

MD5 Checksum: 23371970c3b1c5dee287b9bb97901b7d

Download Link #1: http://www.zshare.net/download/689075349802a081/

How to Use:

1. Decompress with bzip2 on Linux.

$ bzcat Google-Chrome-OS-build-enming.teo-24Nov2009-0528.vmdk.bz2

2. Use as virtual harddisk with the open source Xen hypervisor, Sun
VirtualBox, VMware Workstation, or VMware Player

3. To convert the VMDK image file to Xen HVM domU image file for use
with Xen, follow the instructions at the following link.

http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/VMDKImage




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Re: Autofs under Fedora-12

[Tim]

Mogens Kjaer:
>> I would have made (after umount /common and removing
>> the empty folder /common):
>> 
>> ln -s /net/alfred/common /common
>> 
>> then autofs does the mounting automatically as soon as you
>> access the /common folder.

Timothy Murphy:
> I'm not clear on this.
> With the autofs setting I have, if it works,
> the directory is mounted (invisibly) as soon as I try to access it.

Yes, that is what should happen.  I've been doing something just like
Mogens Kjaer outlined, for many years.

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Re: Flash 10.1 beta

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 00:19 +0100, davide wrote: 
> Hi, I tried to install Flash 10.1 from the Adobe website, but even if 
> installed firefox continues using the "old" one.
> 
> How should I install it correctly?
> 
> 
> (http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html)

Is your system 32- or 64-bit?  It looks like 10.1b is only 32-bit at the
moment.

> 
> 
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Re: Fedora-release RPMS ?

[davide]

Il Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:17:11 +0100, davide ha scritto:

>> Ouch. You have blindly installed all the available plugins. I suggest
>> removing everything except fastestmirror refresh-packagekit and presto.
> 
> yes
> Actually I did it some time ago, when I went into rawhide just to play
> with all of them.
> but, dont use them so much.
> I'll follow your advice.

I'll keep also the show-leaves one. I'd like to keep the system clean, as 
I was used to do in Debian.

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Re: Flash 10.1 beta

[Frank Cox]

On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 00:19 +0100, davide wrote:
> Hi, I tried to install Flash 10.1 from the Adobe website, but even if 
> installed firefox continues using the "old" one.
> 
> How should I install it correctly?

Remove the old one first.
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Re: Fedora-release RPMS ?

[davide]

Il Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:24:01 +0530, Rahul Sundaram ha scritto:

> Ouch. You have blindly installed all the available plugins. I suggest
> removing everything except fastestmirror refresh-packagekit and presto.

yes :-)
Actually I did it some time ago, when I went into rawhide just to play 
with all of them.
but, dont use them so much.
I'll follow your advice.

> Not quite. A few 32-bit libraries are also included in the 64-bit repo
> for compatibility.

ok, I'll take your "a few" as about 4k :-)

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Flash 10.1 beta

[davide]

Hi, I tried to install Flash 10.1 from the Adobe website, but even if 
installed firefox continues using the "old" one.

How should I install it correctly?


(http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html)

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Upcoming IRC Classroom Session for the week of 2009-11-23

[Kevin Fenzi]

Greetings. 

This is a regular posting every monday,
letting people know about the upcoming IRC classroom sessions that are
scheduled. 

From the Classroom page at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom
we currently have the following Classes scheduled: 

2009-12-08 02:00 UTC How to report bugs to the Fedora Project - Kevin Fenzi

We have several other classes in planning stages now, hopefully to be
announced soon. 

Please see the above page for more information on signing up to teach a
class, providing feedback to the classroom mailing list or other
general information. 

Also, last week we had 2 Classes. 
Transcripts are now available on the above page for those who were unable to 
attend. 

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NetworkManager under Fedora-12

[Timothy Murphy]

I have one laptop, a Thinkpad T43,
with a PCMCIA Orinoco classic WiFi Gold Card.
This works under Fedora-11 but not under Fedora-12,
in both cases with the orinoco_cs driver.

I'm just wondering if this is a phenomenon -
with any WiFi card or driver - observed by others?

I thought I'd ask before examining the problem.

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Re: F12 NFS Failures

[Rick Stevens]

On 11/21/2009 10:41 AM, John Austin wrote:

On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 11:11 -0700, Greg Woods wrote:

On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 10:09 +, John Austin wrote:



When copying a large file (2.7GB) from the server to the
F12 m/c a complete freeze of the F12 machine occurs.



I haven't seen freezes, but I have seen corruption when trying to copy
large files (e.g. like a DVD iso image) via NFS. In fact, this happened
to me when I was trying to install an F12 virtual machine on my F11 box
(so I could try it out before deciding whether or not to bite the bullet
and upgrade the host OS). I copied over the DVD iso image, then tried to
install a VM from it, and it failed the media test. Sure enough, it also
failed the sha256sum test. Copying the same DVD iso file via scp instead
worked fine. I do not trust NFS for large files.

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Hi Greg

That's interesting and very worrying - surely it can't/shouldn't happen!

I have been using NFS for years for all types/sizes of files and
never had a problem until the last couple of months.

1.  The Centos/RHEL 5.3/5.4 kernel had a serious bug that has been fixed with 
the
latest kernel update

2.  Now this F12 problem

Surely a very large worldwide community uses NFS ?

OK the F12 case could be my finger trouble or even a hardware problem

I will install F12 on a second machine and test again (against the same server)


Can you verify that you run into the same issue if you run NFS over TCP
as opposed to NFS over UDP (it's an option in the mount command on the
client, use either "proto=tcp" or "proto=udp").

By default, the system queries the server and selects a protocol based
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Re: Fedora-release RPMS ?

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 11/24/2009 04:24 AM, davide wrote:

> 
> (757)-~% yum repolist
> Plugin caricati:aliases, allowdowngrade, blacklist, changelog, 
> downloadonly,
>   : fastestmirror, filter-data, keys, list-data, merge-conf, 
> post-
>   : transaction-actions, presto, priorities, protect-packages,
>   : protectbase, refresh-packagekit, refresh-updatesd, remove-
> with-
>   : leaves, rpm-warm-cache, security, show-leaves, tsflags, 
> upgrade-
>   : helper, verify, versionlock, whiteout


Ouch. You have blindly installed all the available plugins. I suggest
removing everything except fastestmirror refresh-packagekit and presto.

> I mean the total differs in about 4k packages...
> aren't i686 and x86_64 the same thing just recompiled for a different 
> target?

Not quite. A few 32-bit libraries are also included in the 64-bit repo
for compatibility.

Rahul

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Re: Fedora-release RPMS ?

[davide]

Il Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:28:17 -0500, Jim ha scritto:

> [r...@acer64 mickey]# yum repolist
> Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit repo id  
> repo namestatus fedoraFedora 12 -
> x86_64   enabled: 19,122 rpmfusion-freeRPM Fusion for
> Fedora 12 enabled:432 rpmfusion-free-updatesRPM Fusion for
> Fedora 12 enabled:  1 rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for
> Fedora 12 enabled:139 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for
> Fedora 12 enabled:  0 updates   Fedora 12 - x86_64 -
> Upd enabled:755 
repolist: 20,449


why this difference with my situation?

(757)-~% yum repolist
Plugin caricati:aliases, allowdowngrade, blacklist, changelog, 
downloadonly,
  : fastestmirror, filter-data, keys, list-data, merge-conf, 
post-
  : transaction-actions, presto, priorities, protect-packages,
  : protectbase, refresh-packagekit, refresh-updatesd, remove-
with-
  : leaves, rpm-warm-cache, security, show-leaves, tsflags, 
upgrade-
  : helper, verify, versionlock, whiteout
repo id   nome repo stato
adobe-linux-i386  Adobe Systems Incorporated
abilitato:17
chromium  Chromium Test Packages
abilitato:12
fedoraFedora 12 - i386  
abilitato: 15366
rpmfusion-freeRPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Fr 
abilitato:   383
rpmfusion-free-updatesRPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Fr 
abilitato: 1
rpmfusion-free-updates-testingRPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Fr 
abilitato:78
rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - No 
abilitato:   124
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - No 
abilitato: 0
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - No 
abilitato:58
updates   Fedora 12 - i386 - Updates
abilitato:   387
updates-testing   Fedora 12 - i386 - Test Updat 
abilitato:   559
repolist: 16985
(758)-~% 


I mean the total differs in about 4k packages...
aren't i686 and x86_64 the same thing just recompiled for a different 
target?

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Re: No Flash/sound in F12 Firefox

[Sam Varshavchik]

Frank Cox writes:



On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 07:01 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

A contributing factor may be privoxy, which I use. By itself, privoxy
is 
benign, of course, and has no effect,aside from cleaning up all the
clutter. 
One possibility, that occured to me, is the loaded flash code quietly 
calling back to the mothership, which privoxy blocks; and with no
checking 
of the error path, flash is crashing.


I use privoxy too and, as I posted earlier, that page works for me.


Well, then, I don't know. Putting libflashplayer.so back in, I don't have to 
work very hard to make flash bomb out. Even after letting abrt download 
about a hundred debuginfos and install them, it does not produce a very 
useful backtrace:


Thread 1 (Thread 19484):
#0  0x003669e0ee6b in raise (sig=)
   at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pt-raise.c:42
   resultvar = 0
   pid = 
#1  0x00367aa7752a in nsProfileLock::FatalSignalHandler (signo=4)
   at nsProfileLock.cpp:212
   unblock_sigs = {__val = {8, 0 }}
   oldact = 
#2  
No symbol table info available.
#3  0x7f6626293683 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#4  0x7f662b2225d8 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.

…

80 0x7f662b0eda40 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#81 0x in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
Current language:  auto
The current source language is "auto; currently c".

The only clue is that Firefox here dies with SIGILL:

Program terminated with signal 4, Illegal instruction.
#0  0x003669e0ee6b in raise (sig=)
   at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pt-raise.c:42
42   sig);

As I understand it, flash gets compiled to native code. This is a relatively 
old Opteron:


processor   : 0
vendor_id   : AuthenticAMD
cpu family  : 15
model   : 5
model name  : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 240
stepping: 1

I suspect that some bits of flash code get compiled into x86_64 instructions 
that are not implemented on my older CPU. So, although I can watch video on 
youboob, apparently most other flash sites get compiled into x86_64 code 
that won't work on my older CPU.


Oh well.



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Re: Cannot boot after update F11

[Skunk Worx]

On 11/23/2009 07:01 AM, Vincent Onelli wrote:

Hello,

Help! I Have 2 Computer HP laptop and Dell Desktop Both have worked fine
the laptop was getting update regularly, desktop did not. I decided to
poke around, and found the update box was not checked, so I did and then
used "su -c 'yum update'" it start the update, but at one point start to
repeat lines claiming yum was busy I left running for while then I
realize that it got in an endless loop I stop by closing the terminal.
The download continue for while, when stop I reboot but din,t even got
to the menu. I try the rescue disk but it takes me to the command line,
what I do from here? I will appreciate very much some help.
  I was ready to do new installation with F12 but I will loose important
data. This is dual boot with windows xp in 2 separate HD, windows would
not boot also.
Thank you in advance.
Vinny



If you have critical data that is not backed up you might want to boot a 
live CD distro and back that stuff up to external media first.


Does the /mnt/sysimage/boot directory exist and have :

1) grub subdirectory?
2) Files vmlinuz* and init*?

If so, you could do a "grub reinstall". When I googled for "fedora grub 
install rescue" this came up near the top :


http://ilovefedora.blogspot.com/2009/05/reinstall.html

...if you don't know where your boot sector is installed, google for 
"fedora where is my boot sector" and there are lots of ways to find it.


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Re: Fedora-release RPMS ?

[Michael Cronenworth]

Patrick Kohring on 11/23/2009 02:45 PM wrote:


I'm not getting any updates and a lot of "can't find a lot of fedora repos"



If you used preupgrade you already have all the latest possible updates. 
That's the beauty of preupgrade.


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Re: Fedora-release RPMS ?

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 11/24/2009 03:58 AM, Jim wrote:
> On 11/23/2009 04:35 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> On 11/24/2009 03:00 AM, Jim wrote:
>>   
>>> What is the latest fedora-release and fedora-release-notes rpms.
>>> I have ;
>>> fedora-release-12-2
>>> fedora-release-notes-12.0.2-1.fc12
>>>
>>> I'm not getting any updates and a lot of "can't find a lot of fedora
>>> repos"
>>>  
>> # yum clean metadata
>>
>> Try again.  If that doesn't work, post the output of
>>
>> # yum repolist
>>
>> Rahul
>>
>>
> Heres what I get.

So, where is the problem?  You seem to have all the updates already.

Rahul

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ext4fs

[david walcroft]

I am going to clean install fc12 but I don't know how to
handle this situation,my /home is ext3fs and I want format the rest of 
my directories as ext4fs,will the two fs get on together

or am I going to format everything as ext4 and use my /home backup.
  If I use my dvd backup,what command do I use to transfer the data
from the dvd to my harddrive and do I have to do it in ctrl-alt-F2
CLI

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Re: Fedora-release RPMS ?

[Jim]

On 11/23/2009 04:35 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

On 11/24/2009 03:00 AM, Jim wrote:
   

What is the latest fedora-release and fedora-release-notes rpms.
I have ;
fedora-release-12-2
fedora-release-notes-12.0.2-1.fc12

I'm not getting any updates and a lot of "can't find a lot of fedora repos"
 

# yum clean metadata

Try again.  If that doesn't work, post the output of

# yum repolist

Rahul

   

Heres what I get.
 
# yum clean metadata
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
27 metadata files removed 
14 sqlite files removed
0 metadata files removed


[r...@acer64 mickey]# yum update
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
fedora/metalink|  18 kB 00:00
ftp://ftp.wallawalla.edu/pub/mirrors/fedora/linux/releases/12/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml:
 [Errno 14] HTTP Error 550 : 
ftp://ftp.wallawalla.edu/pub/mirrors/fedora/linux/releases/12/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml
Trying other mirror.
fedora | 4.2 kB 00:00
fedora/primary_db  |  12 MB 00:40
rpmfusion-free | 3.8 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free/primary_db  | 344 kB 00:01
rpmfusion-free-updates | 3.8 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates/primary_db  | 2.1 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree  | 3.3 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree/primary_db   |  91 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates  | 3.8 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/primary_db   | 1.1 kB 00:00
updates/metalink   |  14 kB 00:00
updates| 4.4 kB 00:00
updates/primary_db | 547 kB 00:01
Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update


[r...@acer64 mickey]# yum repolist
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
repo id   repo namestatus
fedoraFedora 12 - x86_64   enabled: 19,122
rpmfusion-freeRPM Fusion for Fedora 12 enabled:432
rpmfusion-free-updatesRPM Fusion for Fedora 12 enabled:  1
rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 enabled:139
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 enabled:  0
updates   Fedora 12 - x86_64 - Upd enabled:755
repolist: 20,449
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Re: Autofs under Fedora-12

[Timothy Murphy]

Mogens Kjaer wrote:

> On 11/23/2009 12:58 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 
>> I meant the mount command:
>> sudo mount alfred:/common /common
> 
> Why do you use autofs at all if you give a command
> to do the mounting?

I only give the mount command because autofs is not working
on this laptop under Fedora-12.
It did work under Fedora-11.
And it does work on 2 other Thinkpad T43s under Fedora-12.

> I would have made (after umount /common and removing
> the empty folder /common):
> 
> ln -s /net/alfred/common /common
> 
> then autofs does the mounting automatically as soon as you
> access the /common folder.

I'm not clear on this.
With the autofs setting I have, if it works,
the directory is mounted (invisibly) as soon as I try to access it.

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Re: FC12 - NUmber of workspaces

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 11/24/2009 03:48 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> On 11/24/2009 03:10 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>  
>>> I just did my first FC12 install and there are only 2 workspaces.  How
>>> do I increase this to my 'regular' 4?
>>> 
>>
>> Right click -> Preferences.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> First time I tried right clicking on the workspace switcher it did not
> do anything.  Then it crashed the switcher.  Then I searched here, then
> asked for help.
> 
> Now it works just fine.  Go figure

If it crashes again and you can reproduce the problem, please file a bug
report on this. Thanks.

Rahul

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Re: FC12 - NUmber of workspaces

[Robert Moskowitz]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:

On 11/24/2009 03:10 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
  

I just did my first FC12 install and there are only 2 workspaces.  How
do I increase this to my 'regular' 4?



Right click -> Preferences.


Thanks.

First time I tried right clicking on the workspace switcher it did not 
do anything.  Then it crashed the switcher.  Then I searched here, then 
asked for help.


Now it works just fine.  Go figure


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f12 magnifying lens help

[Skunk Worx]

Hi,

It seems to me in past days I've seen OS's with a magnifier ... like a 
magnifying glass. Move it over something and it zooms that spot "in place".


Sometimes when I go to a web site with very small fonts or drawings I 
would like to have such a tool to move around the page and magnify things.


My default f12 install has a package called "gnome-mag". From what I 
have read on the web it is used/enabled by :


1) System->Preferences->Assistive Technologies dialog
2) Enable Assistive Technologies
3) Select through Preferred Applications-Accessibility-Visual-"Orca with 
Magnifier"

4) Enable Orca "run at start"
5) Restart

But the magnifier seems a little clumsy--it takes over a static area of 
a screen and tracks what is under the cursor, so I have to constantly 
look to the cursor, then back to the magnifier, and back again as I read 
through a page or diagrams.


I was hoping for something like a magnifying glass I could move around 
the screen, perhaps with a control like a SpinBox or a ScrollBar to 
adjust the magnification.


Is anything like this available for f12?

I can always stop by rite-aid and buy one for $2.99 or something :-)

Thanks,
John

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Re: compiling mplayer on F12 with vdpau support

[Lonni J Friedman]

Fedora doesn't ship the NVIDIA display driver package.  You can google
to see the lengthy reasons why.

VDPAU will not work with the 'nouveau' driver.

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Paolo Galtieri  wrote:
> If all I need is the nvidia display driver package why wasn't it installed
> when I instlled F12 on my system given that I have an nvidia card?  A couple
> of other issues, first there are no nvidia related packages in the F12
> repositories that I can find. Second I'm running the nouveau display
> driver.
>
> Paolo
>
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Lonni J Friedman 
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Paolo Galtieri 
>> wrote:
>> > I'm trying to compile mplayer on F12 and I've encountered a problem.
>> > I've
>> > installed the vdpau packages from the F12 repositories, but when I try
>> > to
>> > configure mplayer with vdpau support it indicates there is no support
>> > for
>> > it.  Here is the test program from the configure script.
>> >
>> > #include 
>> > int main(void) {
>> >     (void) vdp_device_create_x11(0, 0, 0, 0);
>> >     return VDP_VIDEO_MIXER_FEATURE_HIGH_QUALITY_SCALING_L1; }
>> >
>> > The compiles fine:
>> >
>> > gcc -o vdp vdp.c -lvdpau
>> >
>> > but when you run it you get:
>> >
>> > ./vdp
>> > Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared
>> > object
>> > file: No such file or directory
>> >
>> > Running
>> >
>> > ldd ./vdp
>> >
>> > shows:
>> >
>> >     linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x7fffb0dff000)
>> >     libvdpau.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libvdpau.so.1 (0x7fb918e84000)
>> >     libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x003fa840)
>> >     libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x003fa880)
>> >     /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x003fa800)
>> >
>> > there is no reference to libvdpau_nvidia.so.
>> >
>> > A search of the repositories shows no matches for this library.
>> >
>> > Any ideas what I'm missing?
>>
>>
>> libvdpau_nvidia.so ships with the NVIDIA display driver package.
>> There's no need to install anything other than that to build mplayer
>> with vdpau support.


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Re: compiling mplayer on F12 with vdpau support

[Paolo Galtieri]

If all I need is the nvidia display driver package why wasn't it installed
when I instlled F12 on my system given that I have an nvidia card?  A couple
of other issues, first there are no nvidia related packages in the F12
repositories that I can find. Second I'm running the nouveau display
driver.

Paolo

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Lonni J Friedman wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Paolo Galtieri 
> wrote:
> > I'm trying to compile mplayer on F12 and I've encountered a problem.
> I've
> > installed the vdpau packages from the F12 repositories, but when I try to
> > configure mplayer with vdpau support it indicates there is no support for
> > it.  Here is the test program from the configure script.
> >
> > #include 
> > int main(void) {
> > (void) vdp_device_create_x11(0, 0, 0, 0);
> > return VDP_VIDEO_MIXER_FEATURE_HIGH_QUALITY_SCALING_L1; }
> >
> > The compiles fine:
> >
> > gcc -o vdp vdp.c -lvdpau
> >
> > but when you run it you get:
> >
> > ./vdp
> > Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared
> object
> > file: No such file or directory
> >
> > Running
> >
> > ldd ./vdp
> >
> > shows:
> >
> > linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x7fffb0dff000)
> > libvdpau.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libvdpau.so.1 (0x7fb918e84000)
> > libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x003fa840)
> > libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x003fa880)
> > /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x003fa800)
> >
> > there is no reference to libvdpau_nvidia.so.
> >
> > A search of the repositories shows no matches for this library.
> >
> > Any ideas what I'm missing?
>
>
> libvdpau_nvidia.so ships with the NVIDIA display driver package.
> There's no need to install anything other than that to build mplayer
> with vdpau support.
>
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Re: Multi-boot: Making windows partitions bootable?

[Daniel B. Thurman]

Tony Nelson wrote:

On 09-11-23 12:35:00, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
 ...
  

I know this is a Fedora site and I am a diehard Fedora user,
but I also have a multiboot system...  apologies to the purists.

Is it possible to backup and restore Xp/Vista to a different
drive/partition in the case of imminent drive failure?  How is this 
to be properly done?


I tried to use rsync from the original to a different partition
but this does not seem to work.

Help please?



There are various -ghost apps, but I've just used dd to a new drive, 
copying the entire drive to a drive as large or larger.  If it is 
larger, I just extend the last partition to the rest of the drive.  
IIRC, I usually haven't had to do anything else, but it might be 
necessary to do a "Repair Install", at least with XP (I haven't used 
anything more recent).  A Repair Install is tedious but hasn't done any 
harm when I've used it.
  

Just need a little more info:

How exactly did you use `dd'?

1) Did you have to mount the two partitions and: dd if=/mnt/a of=/mnt/b
   I got an error saying they were directories
2) .. or did you use the RAW devices such as: dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1

Was there any options you used, such as block size or whatever?

Thanks!
Dan

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Re: FC12 - NUmber of workspaces

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 11/24/2009 03:10 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I just did my first FC12 install and there are only 2 workspaces.  How
> do I increase this to my 'regular' 4?

Right click -> Preferences.

Rahul

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Re: FC12 - NUmber of workspaces

[ELMORABITY Mohamed]

Le lundi 23 novembre 2009 à 16:40 -0500, Robert Moskowitz a écrit :
> I just did my first FC12 install and there are only 2 workspaces.  How 
> do I increase this to my 'regular' 4?
> 
> 

Hi,

you just have to right-click on the workspace switcher and set your
preferences for it.

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FC12 - NUmber of workspaces

[Robert Moskowitz]

I just did my first FC12 install and there are only 2 workspaces.  How 
do I increase this to my 'regular' 4?



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Re: Fedora-release RPMS ?

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 11/24/2009 03:00 AM, Jim wrote:
> What is the latest fedora-release and fedora-release-notes rpms.
> I have ;
> fedora-release-12-2
> fedora-release-notes-12.0.2-1.fc12
> 
> I'm not getting any updates and a lot of "can't find a lot of fedora repos"

# yum clean metadata

Try again.  If that doesn't work, post the output of

# yum repolist

Rahul

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Fedora-release RPMS ?

[Jim]

What is the latest fedora-release and fedora-release-notes rpms.
I have ;
fedora-release-12-2
fedora-release-notes-12.0.2-1.fc12

I'm not getting any updates and a lot of "can't find a lot of fedora repos"

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Re: run anaconda to install to second hard drive

[idwsh6b02]

Tim wrote at 16:20 +1030 on Nov 17, 2009:
 > On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 22:15 -0700, idwsh6...@sneakemail.com wrote:
 > > I'm running F11 and I'd like to run anaconda to install another
 > > instance of F11 to a second (blank) hard drive in my system. I'd like
 > > to do it without rebooting. The second drive is removable.
 > 
 > Just to throw some other ideas into the ring, you could clone the
 > installed drive over to the second one.  Though, bear in mind that if
 > you're going to use this second drive to run Fedora on another computer,
 > there may be significant enough hardware differences between this
 > computer and that computer, that you need to do the install on the
 > computer it will run on.  That, or tweak it about.

I specifically do not want the same system I am running with installed
to the second drive, but would like to run through the anaconda
install instead.  For a more complete solution were I mass producing
drives, I might be inclined to do a clone or a kickstart install.

I'm aware of the issue with hardware differences.  The systems
are close enough that they can either be ignored or tweaked
post-install.

Anyone have any more ideas for actually running anaconda or similar
installer to install fedora to a second drive?

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Re: Cannot boot after update F11

[stan]

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:01:53 -0500
Vincent Onelli  wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Help! I Have 2 Computer HP laptop and Dell Desktop Both have worked
> fine the laptop was getting update regularly, desktop did not. I
> decided to poke around, and found the update box was not checked, so
> I did and then used "su -c 'yum update'" it start the update, but at
> one point start to repeat lines claiming yum was busy I left running
> for while then I realize that it got in an endless loop I stop by
> closing the terminal. The download continue for while, when stop I
> reboot but din,t even got to the menu. I try the rescue disk but it
> takes me to the command line, what I do from here? I will appreciate
> very much some help. I was ready to do new installation with F12 but
> I will loose important data. This is dual boot with windows xp in 2
> separate HD, windows would not boot also.
> Thank you in advance.
> Vinny
> 

>From your description, it doesn't sound like any updates occurred.  Yum
does not update anything until all downloads are completed.  It seems
you stopped it before that point.  So this seems to be a problem with
booting in general.

And it sounds from your description like you have a corrupted hard
drive.  There should be a way to check that from the rescue disk.
Maybe someone else can help you with that or you can do a search.

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Re: sound card configuration

[stan]

On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:58:56 +0100
François Patte  wrote:

> >> Is there a tutorial to configure a sound card under fedora 10?
> >> My sound card (Realtek ALC 882 integrated on Asus P5WD2 mobo) is
> >> working but the sound is not clear: a lot of interferences (b,
> >> criccroc...), so, in piano passages of record, I can ear more
> >> electronic sounds than music
> >>
> >> Is there a way to have no background noise?
 
The fact that you have an hda-intel card triggered some thoughts.  In
the kernel documentation for sound, the following models are reported
for your card:

ALC882/883/885/888/889
==
  3stack-dig3-jack with SPDIF I/O
  6stack-dig6-jack digital with SPDIF I/O
  arima Arima W820Di1
  targa Targa T8, MSI-1049 T8
  asus-a7j  ASUS A7J
  asus-a7m  ASUS A7M
  macproMacPro support
  mb5   Macbook 5,1
  mbp3  Macbook Pro rev3
  imac24iMac 24'' with jack detection
  w2jc  ASUS W2JC
  3stack-2ch-dig3-jack with SPDIF I/O (ALC883)
  alc883-6stack-dig 6-jack digital with SPDIF I/O (ALC883)
  3stack-6ch3-jack 6-channel
  3stack-6ch-dig 3-jack 6-channel with SPDIF I/O
  6stack-dig-demo  6-jack digital for Intel demo board
  acer  Acer laptops (Travelmate 3012WTMi, Aspire 5600, etc)
  acer-aspire   Acer Aspire 9810
  acer-aspire-4930g Acer Aspire 4930G
  acer-aspire-6530g Acer Aspire 6530G
  acer-aspire-7730g Acer Aspire 7730G
  acer-aspire-8930g Acer Aspire 8930G
  medionMedion Laptops
  medion-md2Medion MD2
  targa-dig Targa/MSI
  targa-2ch-dig Targa/MSI with 2-channel
  targa-8ch-dig Targa/MSI with 8-channel (MSI GX620)
  laptop-eapd   3-jack with SPDIF I/O and EAPD (Clevo M540JE, M550JE)
  lenovo-101e   Lenovo 101E
  lenovo-nb0763 Lenovo NB0763
  lenovo-ms7195-dig Lenovo MS7195
  lenovo-skyLenovo Sky
  haier-w66 Haier W66
  3stack-hp HP machines with 3stack (Lucknow, Samba boards)
  6stack-dell   Dell machines with 6stack (Inspiron 530)
  mitac Mitac 8252D
  clevo-m540r   Clevo M540R (6ch + digital)
  clevo-m720Clevo M720 laptop series
  fujitsu-pi2515 Fujitsu AMILO Pi2515
  fujitsu-xa3530 Fujitsu AMILO XA3530
  3stack-6ch-intel Intel DG33* boards
  intel-alc889a Intel IbexPeak with ALC889A
  intel-x58 Intel DX58 with ALC889
  asus-p5q  ASUS P5Q-EM boards
  mb31  MacBook 3,1
  sony-vaio-tt  Sony VAIO TT
  auto  auto-config reading BIOS (default)

It is possible that the alsa configuration got the model for your board
wrong.  You could try the following process.

As root, modprobe --ignore-install snd-hda-intel model=asus-p5q
As user, try playing the sound that sounds bad, see if it sounds better.
Repeat with all of the above, starting with the most likely (the asus
models).

When you find a model that sounds good, you can either modprobe it each
time you restart your computer or you can add a file called something
like alsa.conf (name isn't important, being in the folder is)
to /etc/modprobe.d so it will be loaded automatically on startup.  In
that file put 
options snd-hda-intel model=



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Re: No Flash/sound in F12 Firefox

[Steve Searle]

Around 01:22am on Monday, November 23, 2009 (UK time), Robert G. (Doc) Savage 
scrawled:

> That's where I found the fedoraforum link in my post. What does
> about:plugins show in your system?

See www.stevesearle.com/s.png

Steve

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Re: Part of hard disk disappeared after installing Fedora 12?

[M. Fioretti]

On Mon, November 23, 2009 9:13 pm, M. Fioretti wrote:
> I have pasted below the outputs of fdisk -l and mount. Please don't
> hesitate to suggest more commands, ask more information etc..
>
> Thanks in advance for any feedback,

Sorry, here they are:

[r...@polaris /]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000acea3

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *   1  26  204800   83  Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2  26   30401   243991201   8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/dm-0: 239.4 GB, 239427649536 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 29108 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-1: 10.4 GB, 10418651136 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1266 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
[r...@polaris /]#

#
[r...@polaris /]# mount
/dev/mapper/vg_polaris-lv_root on / type ext4 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,rootcontext="system_u:object_r:tmpfs_t:s0")
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext4 (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/neo/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon
(rw,nosuid,nodev,user=neo)
[r...@polaris /]#

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Part of hard disk disappeared after installing Fedora 12?

[M. Fioretti]

Greetings,

I just put a spare disk I had into the computer and installed Fedora 12
x86_64 on it. Installation went fine (I just told anaconda to install a
basic desktop and accepted all defaults) except that I seem to be missing
some space from the disk. What I mean is that the disk is 350 GB and was
divided in several partitions from an earlier Fedora install.

My assumption was that anaconda would keep those partitions and install on
the one labeled as /

Now it seems there is only a swap and a / partition, which could be OK,
except that (unless I'm too sleepy right now to think clearly) there are
some 100 GB missing: / is ~250 GB and there are partitions "without a
partition table". I would like to understand if those partitions are some
of the old ones and in such case how to access them. I do have backups of
everything, but I would like to figure out which partitions are those. I
have pasted below
the outputs of fdisk -l and mount. Please don't hesitate to suggest more
commands, ask more information etc..

Thanks in advance for any feedback,

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RE: how to convert .lit (dot lit) files in F12

[Mick M.]

> What error message do you get when compiling clit? The
> alternative is to use the windows binary (from 
> http://convertlit.com/download.php) and run it under
> wine.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sanya Rajan
> 

Hi;
  I was missing the file ltm-0.39.tar.bz2.

thanks

Mick M.


  

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Cannot boot after update F11

[Vincent Onelli]

Hello,

Help! I Have 2 Computer HP laptop and Dell Desktop Both have worked fine
the laptop was getting update regularly, desktop did not. I decided to
poke around, and found the update box was not checked, so I did and then
used "su -c 'yum update'" it start the update, but at one point start to
repeat lines claiming yum was busy I left running for while then I
realize that it got in an endless loop I stop by closing the terminal.
The download continue for while, when stop I reboot but din,t even got
to the menu. I try the rescue disk but it takes me to the command line,
what I do from here? I will appreciate very much some help.
 I was ready to do new installation with F12 but I will loose important
data. This is dual boot with windows xp in 2 separate HD, windows would
not boot also.
Thank you in advance.
Vinny

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Re: could the "missing codec" redirection be more informative?

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 11/23/2009 06:05 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   on a fresh (and barely configured) f12 system, i tried to view my
> first online .wmv file and was redirected here:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageKit_Items_Not_Found#Missing_Codec
> 
> which is moderately informative in terms of telling me what the
> problem is, but utterly useless in terms of telling me how to fix it.

We would if we could. Unfortunately we can't.  The patent page in the
link you referred to has more details. In particular,

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Software_Patents#Can.27t_you_link_to_third_party_repositories_and_guide_users_to_find_such_software.3F

Rahul

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Re: Can anyone with a 64bit Fedora11 check something for me.

[Reg Clemens]

Let me ask a follow on question then.
Can you run both 32 and 64 bit applications on your 64bit box?
I *think* I could when I first installed things, but I sure cant now.

Mabe its time for a quick re-install to fix whatever is screwed up.
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Re: Multi-boot: Making windows partitions bootable?

[Tony Nelson]

On 09-11-23 12:35:00, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
 ...
> I know this is a Fedora site and I am a diehard Fedora user,
> but I also have a multiboot system...  apologies to the purists.
> 
> Is it possible to backup and restore Xp/Vista to a different
> drive/partition in the case of imminent drive failure?  How is this 
> to be properly done?
> 
> I tried to use rsync from the original to a different partition
> but this does not seem to work.
> 
> Help please?

There are various -ghost apps, but I've just used dd to a new drive, 
copying the entire drive to a drive as large or larger.  If it is 
larger, I just extend the last partition to the rest of the drive.  
IIRC, I usually haven't had to do anything else, but it might be 
necessary to do a "Repair Install", at least with XP (I haven't used 
anything more recent).  A Repair Install is tedious but hasn't done any 
harm when I've used it.

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Re: Can anyone with a 64bit Fedora11 check something for me.

[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:33:02 -0700
Reg Clemens wrote:

> I SUSPECT that they should not be there, and I have no idea how they
> got there, but I would like to check another Fedora11/64bit instalation.

Something else confusing must be going on. If you have any 32 bit
program installed, those would have come in as part of the 32 bit
library, they are certainly on my system where I have things
like acroread and 32 bit flash plugin.

My ldd program doesn't seem to give any confusing errors when I
check a 32 bit program to see what libs it loads.

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Re: compiling mplayer on F12 with vdpau support

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Paolo Galtieri  wrote:
> I'm trying to compile mplayer on F12 and I've encountered a problem.  I've
> installed the vdpau packages from the F12 repositories, but when I try to
> configure mplayer with vdpau support it indicates there is no support for
> it.  Here is the test program from the configure script.
>
> #include 
> int main(void) {
>     (void) vdp_device_create_x11(0, 0, 0, 0);
>     return VDP_VIDEO_MIXER_FEATURE_HIGH_QUALITY_SCALING_L1; }
>
> The compiles fine:
>
> gcc -o vdp vdp.c -lvdpau
>
> but when you run it you get:
>
> ./vdp
> Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object
> file: No such file or directory
>
> Running
>
> ldd ./vdp
>
> shows:
>
>     linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x7fffb0dff000)
>     libvdpau.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libvdpau.so.1 (0x7fb918e84000)
>     libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x003fa840)
>     libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x003fa880)
>     /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x003fa800)
>
> there is no reference to libvdpau_nvidia.so.
>
> A search of the repositories shows no matches for this library.
>
> Any ideas what I'm missing?


libvdpau_nvidia.so ships with the NVIDIA display driver package.
There's no need to install anything other than that to build mplayer
with vdpau support.

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compiling mplayer on F12 with vdpau support

[Paolo Galtieri]

I'm trying to compile mplayer on F12 and I've encountered a problem.  I've
installed the vdpau packages from the F12 repositories, but when I try to
configure mplayer with vdpau support it indicates there is no support for
it.  Here is the test program from the configure script.

#include 
int main(void) {
(void) vdp_device_create_x11(0, 0, 0, 0);
return VDP_VIDEO_MIXER_FEATURE_HIGH_QUALITY_SCALING_L1; }

The compiles fine:

gcc -o vdp vdp.c -lvdpau

but when you run it you get:

./vdp
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object
file: No such file or directory

Running

ldd ./vdp

shows:

linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x7fffb0dff000)
libvdpau.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libvdpau.so.1 (0x7fb918e84000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x003fa840)
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x003fa880)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x003fa800)

there is no reference to libvdpau_nvidia.so.

A search of the repositories shows no matches for this library.

Any ideas what I'm missing?

Paolo
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Can anyone with a 64bit Fedora11 check something for me.

[Reg Clemens]

Im confused here.
Im getting an error message from Anacron, that states:

/usr/bin/ldd: line 163: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: cannot execute binary file

and this is true, the file mentioned is  symbolic link to /lib/ld-2.10.1.so
which is  32bit library.  The 64bit symbolic link/library are in /lib64.

So my question.
Can you check your machine, and see if you have these two files in lib, viz
/lib/ld-2.10.1.so
/lib/ld-linux.so.2
actually any ld-* files are of interest.
I SUSPECT that they should not be there, and I have no idea how they
got there, but I would like to check another Fedora11/64bit instalation.


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Re: pdf editor to simply insert notes?

[Frank Cox]

On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 14:08 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   with docbook, though, he's going to send me the PDF format of the
> book, but i still don't know of a tool that will let me insert notes.

pdfedit
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pdf editor to simply insert notes?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  a colleague has a sizable book whose source is in docbook format,
and i want to mark it up with notes all over the place.  with an odt
or doc file, i would of course just open it in oowriter and insert
notes at will.

  with docbook, though, he's going to send me the PDF format of the
book, but i still don't know of a tool that will let me insert notes.
i have no need for general editing, just notes.  thoughts?

rday


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Re: bug in usb_modeswitch

[steve]

On 11/23/2009 11:58 PM, Antonio M wrote:

how do I report a bug against it if not included in package list in bugzilla???

Tnx


usb_modeswitch is certainly included in the package list in bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=usb_modeswitch&product=Fedora

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bug in usb_modeswitch

[Antonio M]

how do I report a bug against it if not included in package list in bugzilla???

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F12 EEEPC 1000H WLAN with hidden SSID no go

[Bernd Bartmann]

Hi,

I just installed F12 on my EEEPC 1000H. Everything is working fine
besides the WLAN connection to an access point with hidden SSID.
I installed the rt2860 drivers from rpmfusion, activated
wpa_supplicant and now I can see the WLAN acces point of my neighbors
in Network Manager, but after entering the details of my own hidden
WLAN Network Manager keeps asking for the WLAN passphrase again and
again.

I also have Ubuntu 9.10 on this EEEPC and there the connection to my
hidden WLAN worked out of the box. Also, on a DELL D620 laptop with
Intel WLAN card and F12 the connection to my hidden WLAN works just
fine.

Any ideas how to get this going on the EEEPC in F12?

Best regards,
Bernd.

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Re: NVIDIA under F12

[Claude Jones]

On 11/22/2009 11:43 AM, Luc MAIGNAN wrote:

Hi,

I try to compile latest nvidia drivers for a GEFORCE 8600 GTS under 
F12, but it doesn't work and the log isn't very verbose.


Has anyone succeed to do this ?

BR

Just finished installing the drivers from rpmfusion. There are some 
notes there about dealing with the nouveau driver so modprobe doesn't 
give it pre-emption, and running a command to keep Selinux from killing 
the nvidia driver. Did that and installed the akmod-nvidia driver, which 
pulled the xorg-nvidia package and one other, and it worked fine.


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Re: No Flash/sound in F12 Firefox - working

[Robert G. (Doc) Savage]

On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 10:58 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Monday 23 November 2009 04:46:40 Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 04:21 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> > > firefox-3.5.5-1.fc12.x86_64
> > > libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
> > 
> > Does flashplayer appear in your Firefox about:plugin? In mine it does
> > not.
> 
> Yes, it does appear here:
> 
> Shockwave Flash
> 
> File name: libflashplayer.so
> Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32
> 
> MIME Type Description SuffixesEnabled
> application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
> application/futuresplash  FutureSplash Player spl Yes
> 
> Sorry for copy-pasting from a table, it looks ugly in plain text. But 
> definitely, it is registered in about:plugins just as I would expect it to.
> 
> Did you restart firefox after installing flash plugin? And note, the page is 
> "about:plugins", not "about:plugin". ;-)

Marko,

Restarting Firefox was required, and of course I had overlooked that
note on the Fedora Project wiki page. Everything now works as it should.
Thanks.

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Re: No Flash/sound in F12 Firefox

[Frank Cox]

On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 07:01 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> A contributing factor may be privoxy, which I use. By itself, privoxy
> is 
> benign, of course, and has no effect,aside from cleaning up all the
> clutter. 
> One possibility, that occured to me, is the loaded flash code quietly 
> calling back to the mothership, which privoxy blocks; and with no
> checking 
> of the error path, flash is crashing.

I use privoxy too and, as I posted earlier, that page works for me.
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Re: Does f12 bind take a long time getting up to speed?

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

Tom Horsley  writes:
> It is certainly supposed to be. I have "network" enabled and
> NetworkManager disabled, and eth0 configured as static and
> set to come up on boot.

FYI: It is possible to run NetworkMangler and have the network behave
sanely during boot.

echo "NETWORKWAIT=yes" >>  /etc/sysconfig/network

It isn't clear why the fedora default config has all the nework daemons
intentionally fail at boot.

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Re: Multi-boot: Making windows partitions bootable?

[Daniel B. Thurman]

Daniel B. Thurman wrote:


I have been able to make a multiboot windows disk, no
problems, but I am trying to make a windows backup onto
another drive and make it bootable.  Perhaps this is related to
the 32bit (137GB) boundary problem?

On a different system,  I have a successful multiboot drive as follows:
[mb][bb][sw][[Xp][Vis][bf9][rf9][bf11][rf11][bu9][ru9][bs][rs][wa][fa]]

mb = master boot
bb = backup boot
sw = swap
Xp = Windows XP
Vis = Windows Vista
bf9 = boot Fedora 9
rf9 = root Fedora 9
bf11 = boot Fedora 11
rf11 = root Fedora 11
bu9 = boot Ubuntu 9
ru9 = root Ubuntu 9
bs = boot spare
rs = root spare
wa = Windows Apps
fa = Fedora Apps

Notice that the max of 15 partitions are all used up (for SATA)
Also notice that the windows partitions are placed within the
137GB boundary.

For my current system, here is what I have:

Disk1:
[w2kp][Xp][Vis][mb][wa]]

w2kp = Windows 2000 Professional
Xp = Windows XP
Vis = Windows Vista
mb = Grub boot partition
wa = Windows Applications

Disk2:
[mb][bb][sw][[bf9][rf9][bf11][rf11][bu9][ru9][bs][rs][Xp][Vis][fa][wa]]

Notice that the windows partitions are outside the 137GB boundary.
The reason is, that disk-2 was previously all linux-distros only disk
and I realized later I did not have backup windows partitions and
decided to use the spares after the fact.

My goal is to copy the contents of drive1:Xp to drive2:Xp and
drive1:Vis to drive2:Vis and to make drive2:Xp and drive2:Vis
bootable after copying the data over.

This is what I did as for "backups":

1) mkdir /mnt/{a,b}
2) mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/a
3) mount /dev/sdb12 /mnt/b
4) cd /mnt/b; rsync -av /mnt/a/. /mnt/b/.
Repeat the above steps for Vista but with the right partitions

The difficulty I am having is making the respective windows
partitions bootable.

I tried:

1) Disk2: Set the partition boot flag (Using gparted) on Xp (and later 
Vista)

   This makes the Xp partition C: drive so that repairs might
   be successful.
2) Reboot with the CD/DVD inserted and if successful, use the "fixMBR"
   utility file.

The problem here, is that for both Xp & Vista, the CD/DVD program 
fails to
locate their respective partitions from which to launch windows and 
simply
stops.  The question is, does that mean that both Xp & Vista 
installation program
stops because it is outside the 137GB boundary, long before partition 
12/13?


Is there another way to make partitions bootable other than using
Windows installation CD/DVD/floppies?

Thanks-
Dan


I know this is a Fedora site and I am a diehard Fedora user,
but I also have a multiboot system...  apologies to the purists.

Is it possible to backup and restore Xp/Vista to a different drive/partition
in the case of imminent drive failure?  How is this to be properly
done?

I tried to use rsync from the original to a different partition
but this does not seem to work.

Help please?

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Re: nvidia issue: no compositing, libGLcore.so.1 not found

[Neal Becker]

Compositing is now working.  I'm using kde.  In desktop settings, I had 
to fiddle around with settings several times.  Under advanced, I tried 
"disable functionality checks", and still had to toggle things back and 
forth a few times.  Now it says 'compositing is active'.

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Re: nvidia issue: no compositing, libGLcore.so.1 not found

[Steven P. Ulrick]

> On 23/11/09 11:40, Neal Becker wrote:
> > Installed from rpmfusion:
> > xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-190.42-2.fc12.x86_64
> > 
> > Also 
> > xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.1-7.fc12.2.rex.x86_64
> > 
> > Working, but compositing is disabled.
> > 
> > Looked at log, found:
> > (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia/libglx.so
> > dlopen: libGLcore.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
> > directory
> > (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia/libglx.so
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > xorg.conf is default nvidia, with:
> > Option  "AIGLX" "on"
> > and
> > Option  "Composite" "Enable"
> > 
> > 
> 
> Compositing is disabled for a good reason, it's not working, as I found
> out. It caused KDE to be almost cripplingly slow. No doubt when this is
> fixed it will be moved out of RPMFusion nonfree testing. It is for this
> reason I have only updated my Laptop to Fedora 12 and not my PC, and
> that upgrade was not a pleasant experience, most of the time spend
> sorting out the ensuing problems. My advice, you need to be patient and
> wait until those Fedora dev folks sort it out, when it will be released
> into RPMFusion nonfree release.

Hello Everyone
I am running Fedora 12 (fresh install, not an upgrade...) and KDE 4.3.2 (the 
version that ships with Fedora 12.  Using the previous versions of the xorg 
RPMS 
from Rex's repo, compositing is working great here.  My system has an 2.0GHZ 
Intel Xeon QuadCore  processor, 8gigs of RAM and an NVidia based video card 
that 
has about 512MB of RAM on it.

Steven P. Ulrick

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screen background problem on F12

[fred smith]

Hi all!

F12 is looking really good here, but I do have one small issue that I'd
like guidance on...

when I change the wallpaper (background) image, it reverts to the original
one as soon as I do one of: logout and in; reboot; use the desktop switcher, 
after which even the original desktop has reverted.

How to make it stick? Even choosing the "make default" button makes no
difference, it still reverts.

And worse, the default image isn't the right size/shape, so it leaves
big white borders on the left and right side of the screen. :(

Never had this problem on F10 or F11 on the same computer.

Thanks in advance!

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Just asking -- re: cx23885 driver for v4l2

[William Case]

Hi;

I couldn't get my TVtime working under F11 because the analog sound from
my TV Cable supplier was not being being piped to a
buffer/socket/whatever -- at least that is what I understood the problem
to be.  I am using tuner card: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1800 
video driver: v4l2; driver: cx23885.

I filed some bug reports and picked up from googling some crosstalk
between developers (???) about fixes that may be in the latest (???)
kernel and hence in F12.

I haven't yet installed or upgraded to F12 just yet.

Does anybody know if this problem has been fixed and does the fix appear
in the kernel used in F12?


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Re: No F-12 NFS mounts at boot -

[Bob Goodwin]

On 23/11/09 10:43, Tom Horsley wrote:

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:35:28 -0500
Bob Goodwin wrote:

   

 NFS has worked for me without many problems from F10 to F11 but on
 the new F12 install I have to mount nfs manually after boot.

 Has anyone else had a problem or have I overlooked something?

 Bob
 

I haven't had any problems on my f12 virtual machines getting NFS
mounts to work at boot time, but see the thread about bind
taking a long time to start. Maybe you are having problems resolving
the named of the remove machines specified in the fstab?

   


That may be. Perhaps if I gave it more time after boot? I notice that 
when I do mount /mnt/srv1, srvr2 magically comes up. Both are set in 
fstab as in F10/11.


Tnx.

Bob

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Re: nVidia / rpmfusion under F12

[suvayu ali]

2009/11/23 Luc MAIGNAN :
> Hi,
>
> I tried to install the kmod-nvidia package under f12 but yum doesn't see
> anything :
>

Because its in updates-testing :)
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/updates/testing/12/i386/repoview/index.html

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Re: No F-12 NFS mounts at boot -

[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:35:28 -0500
Bob Goodwin wrote:

> 
> NFS has worked for me without many problems from F10 to F11 but on
> the new F12 install I have to mount nfs manually after boot.
> 
> Has anyone else had a problem or have I overlooked something?
> 
> Bob

I haven't had any problems on my f12 virtual machines getting NFS
mounts to work at boot time, but see the thread about bind
taking a long time to start. Maybe you are having problems resolving
the named of the remove machines specified in the fstab?

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nVidia / rpmfusion under F12

[Luc MAIGNAN]

Hi,

I tried to install the kmod-nvidia package under f12 but yum doesn't see 
anything :


yum search kmod-nvidia
Modules complémentaires chargés : presto, refresh-packagekit
fedora/metalink   
|  25 kB 00:00
fedora
| 4.2 kB 00:00
fedora/primary_db 
|  12 MB 00:19
livna 
| 2.4 kB 00:00
livna/primary_db  
| 2.7 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free
| 3.8 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free/primary_db 
| 344 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates
| 3.8 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates/primary_db 
| 2.1 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree 
| 3.3 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree/primary_db  
|  91 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates 
| 3.8 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/primary_db  
| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates/metalink  
|  19 kB 00:00
updates   
| 4.4 kB 00:00
updates/primary_db
| 547 kB 00:00

Attention : Aucune correspondance trouvée pour : kmod-nvidia
Aucune correspondance trouvée



But under F11 it has worked !

yum info kmod-nvidia
Modules complémentaires chargés : refresh-packagekit
Paquets disponibles
Nom   : kmod-nvidia
Architecture  : i586
Version   : 190.42
Révision  : 1.fc11.1
Taille: 28 k
Dépôt : rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
Résumé: Metapackage which tracks in nvidia kernel module for 
newest kernel

URL: http://www.nvidia.com/
Licence   : Redistributable, no modification permitted
Description :This is a meta-package without payload which sole purpose 
is to require the

   : nvidia kernel module(s) for the newest kernel.
   : to make sure you get it together with a new kernel.




Idea ?

BR

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No F-12 NFS mounts at boot -

[Bob Goodwin]

   NFS has worked for me without many problems from F10 to F11 but on
   the new F12 install I have to mount nfs manually after boot.

   Has anyone else had a problem or have I overlooked something?

   Bob


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Re: Does f12 bind take a long time getting up to speed?

[Tom Horsley]

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:09:08 +1030
Tim wrote:

> This sounds suspiciously like the old problem that Fedora 7 (?) had,
> where the network comes alive far too late, much later than various
> services that need the network up and running.  Is your network active
> before it tries to start those services?

It is certainly supposed to be. I have "network" enabled and
NetworkManager disabled, and eth0 configured as static and
set to come up on boot.

I do have a bridge setup for my virtual machines to use, and
eth0 as part of the bridge, but all that initialization
claims to have happened before named.

Maybe I should toss in some ifconfig commands or something to
log current status at the start of the ntpdate init script
and see what it says.

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Re: Fedora-12 from USB stick

[Tim]

On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 15:17 +, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I found that the mystery UUID
> actually refers to the partition which is the new / .
> So installing Fedora-12 on this partition
> changes its UUID, which I find slightly surprising -
> I thought the whole point of these UUIDs
> was that they never changed.

That depends on the circumstances...

Pull out drive UUID-whatever, plug it in somewhere else, or the same
place at a later date, and that same UUID is applied to that drive.
Plug in some other drive, and it'll have a different UUID, and shouldn't
get confused with some other drive, if you unplugged one and plugged
another into the same port.

Reformat a drive, and it's probably going to get a new one, unless the
formatting routine noted the old one, beforehand, and restored it.  You
probably will be reformatting during an install.

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Sky2 NIC Problem? - Was F12 NFS Failures

[John Austin]

Hi

I have been fighting my problem with system freezes
described in the previous thread
I have added a 2nd NIC to the machine
and tested across an NFS mount using md2sum as before

The machine now has

An on board Marvell 8380 GB/s nic that uses the sky2 driver
A D-Link 530T GB/s nic that uses the skge driver

I am using a Netgear GS108T GB/s switch to a Centos 5.4
nfs4 server.

The machine is booted with only one NIC connected at a time

D-link  Marvell
F11 OK  OK
F12 OK  Fails

Fails = Hardware button press required after "random" time during
read/checksum calc of 8GB file set

My conclusion was that it must be the F12 sky2 driver not NFS

I then down loaded the latest "Working" F11 kernel source rpm and
extracted sky2.c and sky2.h
and compiled these against the F12 kernel

I thought this must fix the problem - but no!
The machine still freezes during the md5sum test

I am rapidly running out of ideas !!

Any help appreciated

John







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Re: webcam on eeepc 901

[fred smith]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 01:09:09PM +0100, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> On 11/23/2009 12:42 PM, fred smith wrote:
> ...
> >the webcam works (for some definitions of "works"), but... I can
> >fire up cheese and see myself on the screen as I move around. it will
> >take still photos. but when I tell it to record a movie the subwindow
> >where the video should display goes black for many seconds, then every
> >once in a while (30 seconds or possibly longer) it will display a
> >still image, then wait a long while before updating the screen with
> >another one. if I let it "record" for a minute or two then stop it
> >and play back, the playback is just like what I saw during recording.
> 
> It's the encoding of the video that takes resources.
> 
> On my 901 cheese runs at >180% CPU time during the recording.
> 
> You can lower the resolution in preferences, and it will actually
> do a recording.

thanks, I'll look into trying that.

> 
> Or try some other software?
> 
> mplayer will display from the camera with:
> 
> mplayer tv://
> 
> so maybe mencoder can be used to make a recording?

It's worth trying, thanks for the hint.
> 
> ...
> >so, what experiences have the rest of you had on eeepc with F10/F11/F12?
> >And does anyone have any suggestions on  how to make it work?
> 
> I had F11 on mine where I've partitioned the 4G+16G disks into one
> logical volume. That was painfully slow.
> 
> "Luckily" my preupgrade to F12 ruined my system (I had cleaned /boot,
> tune2fs -r 0 /dev/sda1, it rebooted and started the upgrade. It stopped
> after 175 packages, and left me an F11½ system. I could neither continue
> the upgrade or go back) so I did a fresh installation. I did a minimal
> installation with / on the 4G and /home and swap on the slower 16G disk.
> 
> I've moved and symlinked /var/cache and /usr/share to /home to get more
> space on /.
> 
> F12 now works much better than F11.

I've partitioned mine as you describe, i.e., a single LVM spanning both
SSDs and as you also describe, disk i/o is pretty painful. it took somewhere
around 12 hours to do the upgrade from DVD, and another 4 or 5 to install
all the updates waiting for yum to grab.

when I installed F11 I tried it with / on the 4 gig ssd, but it just 
wasn't big enough for me to install a fairly full system on. I could have
pared it way down, but I just know I'd be hanging on the edge, and would
soon run out of space if/when I decided to add a few more packages, so I'm
currently living with a slow system.

I understand (from the eeepc forums) that some people have been successful
at replacing one or both SSDs with tiny 1.8" hard drives, and am tempted
to try that. But availability of such drives doesn't appear to be very 
good. while I haven't searched REALLY hard for them, so far I've not found
them anywhere except on ebay, which isn't my preferred place to shop for
hard drives. :) My wife has a fairly new 1005HA with a hard drive, and it
is a whole lot more snappy than my 901 with SSD, so I suspect my 901 would
feel a lot better, too, if it had a HD.

Thanks again for the suggestions!

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