Re: wifi-radar

[jarmo]

On lauantai 19 joulukuu 2009 01:03:57 Mikkel wrote:
> You need to create the /etc/wifi-radar.conf file. I believe there is
> a template in the documentation.
> 
> Mikkel
> 

Updated it into rawhide version and got it working.

Jarmo

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Re: Upgrading with preupgrade: flawless!

[Clark Martin]

Marcel Rieux wrote:

Some people here said that, despite Fedora suggesting not to upgrade
with yum, they did so and had good results. If this is the way to
upgrade with yum:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq#Instructions_to_upgrade_using_yum

I can tell you that upgrading with preupgrade from Fedora 11 to 12 is
much simpler. Here's what I did, following the instructions:

1) Do a back-up, just in case.

2) In gnome-terminal:

su
yum update
preupgrade

One, two, ? clicks

3) Go for a long bath.

4) Reboot the computer. The downloaded packages will install. So...

5) Eat supper

6) The computer will reboot automatically at the end and voilà!

Everything works.


OR NOT!

I'm still in the middle up running preupgrade.  But it was griping about 
not enough space in the /boot partition.  I tried ripping out old 
kernels, etc.  Still not enough space.


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Re: F12 Live CHECKSUM failing

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 18 December 2009, Tim wrote:
>Tim:
>>> One of their prior posts said they got it using a torrent.
>
>Gene Heskett:
>> In which case they should restart the torrent.  Most clients do a full
>> check and will re-pull anything that doesn't pass that 64kb blocks
>> crc.
>
>One thing that sprang to my mind, would be whether the torrent hadn't
>finished downloading, and had simply stopped because there wasn't any
>more seeds, at the time.

Ktorrent hangs in there till somebody starts seeding what it needs, but I 
have very very little experience with the others so can't say what they do.

I have seen the seed count goto zero a couple of times, but when I got up the 
next morning, it had the file and was seeding it.

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Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

[Marcel Rieux]

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage
 wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 21:58 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Mikkel  wrote:
>> > On 12/18/2009 01:59 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote:
>> >> I have a Kingston Data Traveler 8GB Flash drive that was previously
>> >> formatted FAT32. I reformatted it ext3 simply by clicking on the icon
>> >> and choosing "Format", but it still has only 3.7 GB available.
>> >>
>> >> Any way around this?
>> >>
>> > You reformatted the existing partition. So it is the same size as
>> > the FAT32 partition. If you want to use the entire drive, you will
>> > need to re-partition it. You will probably want to use gparted for
>> > this. You have the choice of creating a second partition, expanding
>> > the existing partition to use the full drive, or deleting the
>> > current partition, and creating a new one.
>>
>> Ar first sight, your suggestion made a lot of sense but I checked the
>> drive with gparted and it sees only one partition.
>>
>> See: http://cjoint.com/data/mtd0lzbfUF.htm
>>
>> Thanks for your answer!
>
> Mikkel,
>
> Have you tried looking at your drive with good ol' fdisk at a root
> command prompt? If your Kingston is like my Vebatim, the output should
> look much like this:
>
> # fdisk -l /dev/sdb
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 8086 MB, 8086618112 bytes
> 249 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1023 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 15438 * 512 = 7904256 bytes
>
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1   *           1        1023     7896506   83  Linux

fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 4045 MB, 4045930496 bytes
120 heads, 55 sectors/track, 1197 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 6600 * 512 = 3379200 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x04030201

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   11198 3951100b  W95 FAT32
==

Very weird: it still sees the partition as FAT32, even though I
formatted it ext3.

> Otherwise, use fdisk's letter commands ("m" for menu) to delete all old
> and create one new max partition of type 83 and "w"rite the new
> partition table back to the drive. Then use mke2fs to format that new
> partition.

Yes, maybe this could work. I'll see tomorrow.

Sleep time.

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Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

[Robert G. (Doc) Savage]

On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 21:58 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Mikkel  wrote:
> > On 12/18/2009 01:59 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote:
> >> I have a Kingston Data Traveler 8GB Flash drive that was previously
> >> formatted FAT32. I reformatted it ext3 simply by clicking on the icon
> >> and choosing "Format", but it still has only 3.7 GB available.
> >>
> >> Any way around this?
> >>
> > You reformatted the existing partition. So it is the same size as
> > the FAT32 partition. If you want to use the entire drive, you will
> > need to re-partition it. You will probably want to use gparted for
> > this. You have the choice of creating a second partition, expanding
> > the existing partition to use the full drive, or deleting the
> > current partition, and creating a new one.
> 
> Ar first sight, your suggestion made a lot of sense but I checked the
> drive with gparted and it sees only one partition.
> 
> See: http://cjoint.com/data/mtd0lzbfUF.htm
> 
> Thanks for your answer!

Mikkel,

Have you tried looking at your drive with good ol' fdisk at a root
command prompt? If your Kingston is like my Vebatim, the output should
look much like this:

# fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 8086 MB, 8086618112 bytes
249 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15438 * 512 = 7904256 bytes

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *   11023 7896506   83  Linux

The key part to look for is the "8086 MB". If your 8 GB thumb drive only
shows something like 3.7 GB under fdisk, it's borked up internally and
you're done.

Otherwise, use fdisk's letter commands ("m" for menu) to delete all old
and create one new max partition of type 83 and "w"rite the new
partition table back to the drive. Then use mke2fs to format that new
partition.

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To Timothy Murphy

[Marcel Rieux]

All your messages at gmail end up in my spam folder with the following mention:

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unable to enable compiz desktop effects

[Jatin K]

Dear all

I'm trying to enable compiz desktop effects (windows wobble and 
workspace on cube ) ..using menu System-->Preferences-->Desktop Effect  
..but it fails and generates following[1] error



it was working very well... so there is no any problem with hardware or 
video driver


[1]
gtk-window-decorator: Screen 0 on display ":0.0" already has a 
decoration manager; try using the --replace option to replace the 
current decoration manager.
compiz (core) - Error: Could not acquire compositing manager selection 
on screen 0 display ":0.0"

compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0
Window manager warning: "" found in configuration database is not a 
valid value for keybinding "run_command_terminal"

Cannot register the panel shell: there is already one running.


can anyone tell me .how to solve this

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Upgrading with preupgrade: flawless!

[Marcel Rieux]

Some people here said that, despite Fedora suggesting not to upgrade
with yum, they did so and had good results. If this is the way to
upgrade with yum:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq#Instructions_to_upgrade_using_yum

I can tell you that upgrading with preupgrade from Fedora 11 to 12 is
much simpler. Here's what I did, following the instructions:

1) Do a back-up, just in case.

2) In gnome-terminal:

su
yum update
preupgrade

One, two, ? clicks

3) Go for a long bath.

4) Reboot the computer. The downloaded packages will install. So...

5) Eat supper

6) The computer will reboot automatically at the end and voilà!

Everything works.

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Re: F12 Live CHECKSUM failing

[Tim]

Tim:
>> One of their prior posts said they got it using a torrent.

Gene Heskett:
> In which case they should restart the torrent.  Most clients do a full
> check and will re-pull anything that doesn't pass that 64kb blocks
> crc.

One thing that sprang to my mind, would be whether the torrent hadn't
finished downloading, and had simply stopped because there wasn't any
more seeds, at the time.

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Re: F12 Live CHECKSUM failing

[suvayu ali]

2009/12/18 Gene Heskett :
> On Friday 18 December 2009, Tim wrote:
>>On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 11:53 -0800, suvayu ali wrote:
>>> This shows that your download is corrupted. That would explain all
>>> your other problems too. You need to download the iso again. If you
>>> are using direct download, I would suggest you to switch to torrent.
>>> While downloading torrents, your torrent client (e.g. transmission or
>>> ktorrent) checks for the checksums of each piece, so corrupted
>>> downloads are very rare.
>>
>>One of their prior posts said they got it using a torrent.
>>

Sorry I had missed that part.

> In which case they should restart the torrent.  Most clients do a full check
> and will re-pull anything that doesn't pass that 64kb blocks crc.
>

Restarting the torrent is probably the best bet here. AFAIR there is
an option to verify too. Maybe the OP can try that, if the client
finds errors then it will re-download the corrupted pieces.
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Booting Fedora-12 from hard disk, again

[Timothy Murphy]

Has anyone actually succeeded in booting Fedora-12
from the DVD ISO file on the hard disk,
by adding a stanza to grub.conf ?

I carried out the following commands:
-
[...@alfred ~]$ sudo mkdir /mnt/Fedora
[...@alfred ~]$ sudo mount -o loop Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso /mnt/Fedora/
[...@alfred ~]$ ls /mnt/Fedora/isolinux/
boot.cat  boot.msg  grub.conf  initrd.img  isolinux.bin
isolinux.cfg  splash.jpg  TRANS.TBL  vesamenu.c32  vmlinuz
[...@alfred ~]$ ls /mnt/Fedora/images/
efiboot.img  efidisk.img  install.img  pxeboot  README  TRANS.TBL
[...@alfred ~]$ mkdir images
[...@alfred ~]$ cp -a /mnt/Fedora/images/install.img images/
[...@alfred ~]$ sudo mkdir /boot/Fedora-12
[...@alfred ~]$ sudo cp -a /mnt/Fedora/isolinux/* /boot/Fedora-12/
-

This is the entry I have added to /etc/grub.conf :
-
title Upgrade to Fedora-12
root (hd0,1)
kernel /Fedora-12/vmlinuz ro
initrd /Fedora-12/initrd.img
-

Now when I boot into this, all goes well
until I try to install from Fedora-12*.iso when I the error
"Device /dev/sda6 does not appear to contain
an installation image".

Am I doing something wrong?



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Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

[Marcel Rieux]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Mikkel  wrote:
> On 12/18/2009 01:59 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote:
>> I have a Kingston Data Traveler 8GB Flash drive that was previously
>> formatted FAT32. I reformatted it ext3 simply by clicking on the icon
>> and choosing "Format", but it still has only 3.7 GB available.
>>
>> Any way around this?
>>
> You reformatted the existing partition. So it is the same size as
> the FAT32 partition. If you want to use the entire drive, you will
> need to re-partition it. You will probably want to use gparted for
> this. You have the choice of creating a second partition, expanding
> the existing partition to use the full drive, or deleting the
> current partition, and creating a new one.

Ar first sight, your suggestion made a lot of sense but I checked the
drive with gparted and it sees only one partition.

See: http://cjoint.com/data/mtd0lzbfUF.htm

Thanks for your answer!

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Re: F12 Live CHECKSUM failing

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 18 December 2009, Tim wrote:
>On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 11:53 -0800, suvayu ali wrote:
>> This shows that your download is corrupted. That would explain all
>> your other problems too. You need to download the iso again. If you
>> are using direct download, I would suggest you to switch to torrent.
>> While downloading torrents, your torrent client (e.g. transmission or
>> ktorrent) checks for the checksums of each piece, so corrupted
>> downloads are very rare.
>
>One of their prior posts said they got it using a torrent.
>
In which case they should restart the torrent.  Most clients do a full check 
and will re-pull anything that doesn't pass that 64kb blocks crc.

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Re: mplayer fc12-86_64

[david walcroft]

On 12/19/2009 10:29 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:

On Friday 18 December 2009 21:52:12 david walcroft wrote:

On 12/18/2009 11:11 AM, david walcroft wrote:

I have the problem of constant flashing at start up of a movie.
I also tried other players (totem) they played videos but no sound,I
checked various volume levels and they were all at maximum.


[da...@reddwarf ~]$ mplayer kinema/garfield-tsr_m320.mov
Warning unknown option cache-prefill at line 148
MPlayer SVN-r29800-4.4.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
This codecs.conf is too old and incompatible with this MPlayer release!
at line 6


What do you have in ~/.mplayer/ directory? It looks like you have some stale
old files from previous versions of mplayer? Try renaming the directory and let
mplayer create a new directory for itself with default contents. Then try
playing the movie again.


I did but mplayer didn't write a default file



Playing kinema/garfield-tsr_m320.mov.
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)
libavformat file format detected.
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x2f1be50]multiple edit list entries, a/v
desync might occur, patch welcome


I am not sure if this is because some confused options in the old config files
or the movie you're trying to play is badly encoded... Anyway it does warn you
that audio and video might get out of sync. I'm not sure if that amounts to
"flashing" you see or not.


AO: [alsa] 22050Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)


Don't you have pulseaudio on by default? Try

   mplayer -ao pulse kinema/garfield-tsr_m320.mov


pulse is working as the sound had to be turned way up to hear it,
so I then found 'pavocontrol' and it's all under control now.



Plays well in the terminal but with out sound.


I'm not surprised there is no sound, given that it tries to use alsa instead
of pulseaudio.

Ok, three recommendations:

1) Try to play some other file. If it is fine, than this particular movie might
be broken somehow.

2) Rename ~/.mplayer/ directory to something else. If there are some old/wrong
config files and settings in there, they can confuse mplayer.

3) Check your sound configuration. Make sure pulseaudio is running, system
sounds and other music can be played without problems etc. Force mplayer to
use pulseaudio with "-ao pulse" option, although it *should* do it by default
anyway.

Btw, I understood that you were previously trying mplayer outside the
terminal, ie. using a GUI. What GUI were you using?


I was using mplayer-gui but I deleted it and installed gmplayer,it 
solved the problem.So now I have a working video system.


HTH, :-)
Marko





Thanks for your help Marko

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Yumex crashes after starting

[Jim]

FC12/KDE

Yumex crashes just after starting, it checks package repos then crashes,
A attachment is attached showing yumex start from command line ,and 
output to

/var/log/messages.
$ yumex
\running  
Current Settings  
autorefresh: True
branding_title: 'Yum Extender NextGen'
color_install: 'darkgreen'
color_normal: 'black' 
color_obsolete: 'blue'
color_update: 'red'   
debug: False  
disable_repo_page: False  
plugins: True 
proxy: '' 
recentdays: 14
repo_exclude: ['debug', 'source'] 
win_height: 550   
win_sep: 300  
win_width: 800
yumdebuglevel: 2  
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/guihelpers/__init__.py:199: GtkWarning: 
gtk_scrolled_window_add(): cannot add non scrollable widget use 
gtk_scrolled_window_add_with_viewport() instead
  self.add_from_file(filename)
eth0 (r8169) is connected
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yumexgui/gui.py:179: DeprecationWarning: Use 
the new widget gtk.Tooltip
  self.tooltip = gtk.Tooltips()
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yumexgui/gui.py:206: DeprecationWarning: Use 
the new widget gtk.Tooltip
  self.tooltip.set_tip(button, tooltip)
eth0 (r8169) is connected
Connected to an network
eth0 (r8169) is connected
Starting yum child process
YUM: Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, presto
YUM: Found 26 installed debuginfo package(s)
YUM: Enabling fedora-debuginfo: Fedora 12 - i386 - Debug
YUM: Enabling rpmfusion-nonfree-debuginfo: RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Nonfree - 
Debug
YUM: Enabling updates-debuginfo: Fedora 12 - i386 - Updates - Debug
YUM: Enabling rpmfusion-free-updates-debuginfo: RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Free 
- Updates Debug
YUM: Enabling rpmfusion-free-debuginfo: RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Free - Debug
YUM: Enabling rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-debuginfo: RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - 
Nonfree - Updates Debug
History Enabled
/usr/bin/yumex: line 5:  2712 Segmentation fault  (core dumped) 
/usr/bin/python /usr/share/yumex/yumex.pyc $*



/var/log/message

Dec 18 20:54:38 localhost kernel: python[2767]: segfault at bee85ffc ip 
004021ad sp bee86000 error 6 in libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.1800.5[3ce000+b2000]
Dec 18 20:54:38 localhost abrtd: Directory 'ccpp-1261187678-2767' creation 
detected
Dec 18 20:54:38 localhost abrtd: Lock file 
'/var/cache/abrt/ccpp-1261187678-2767.lock' is locked by process 2778
Dec 18 20:54:38 localhost abrt: saved core dump of pid 2767 to 
/var/cache/abrt/ccpp-1261187678-2767/coredump (54022144 bytes)
Dec 18 20:54:38 localhost abrtd: Getting local universal unique 
identification...
Dec 18 20:54:38 localhost abrtd: Crash is in database already
Dec 18 20:54:38 localhost abrtd: Already saved crash, just sending dbus signal


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Re: Some Thunderbird attachments don't start application

[Tim]

On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 11:10 -0500, Jim wrote:
> I have the same problem with playing .wmv files in Thunderbird . the 
> /edit/pref./attachments has VLC set to play .wmv files, but some .wmv 
> files won't play, it wants me to "Save" them.
>  
> I think it has to do with Mime Types.

You can *know* by looking at the message source, and reading the headers
just above the attachment.

> I get this one person that has a XP computer sends me .jpg pictures
> and I can never see them, unless I save them.
> The Content Type is set to something different than a .jpg content and
> Thunderbird doesn't understand that Content Type.

Probably octet-stream, again.  Microsoft mail clients have always been
incredibly crap at adhering to standards designed umpteen years ago.
It's not a difficult thing, but they seem unable to do the most basic of
computing tasks correctly.  They keep doing this with some of the most
common file types (i.e. not ones you'd expect anything to have any
difficulties with handling).

Gawd but I despair over them, when I think of the decades of damage that
Microsoft has caused to the computing world because of their arrogance
and incompetence.

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Re: Some Thunderbird attachments don't start application

[Tim]

On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 14:07 +0100, Antonio M wrote:
> don't understand why same attachment starts openoffice in F12 (two
> boxes) , that are both standard installation.
> What is different???

Configurations???  Without seeing your computers, or example emails, we
cannot tell, just make the usual guesses about the problems.

Do you mean the exact same email, or the same sort of email?

If you look in the source code for the messages, you can see the MIME
type declared in the header above the attachment.

There's a chance that you did configure the other programs to handle
octet-stream types with a particular application, the first time you
tried to open one of them.

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Re: How to remove language packs from thunderbird

[Robert Nichols]

Frank Cox wrote:

On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 12:48 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote:

When I bring up thunderbird as a normal user it lists a large number
of languages available.  I only need 2 languages, how do I remove the
ones I don't need?


I just delete all of the langpack-* files in /usr/lib/firefox*
or /usr/lib64/firefox*


 but when I bring up thunderbird as a regular user after removing the
language packs as root they are still present.


I don't use thunderbird, but once I have removed the langpacks from
firefox as described above, they are gone in firefox.


Here is a script I keep in /root/bin/unlang which works just fine for
both thunderbird and firefox.  As written, it preserves the langpack-fr
(French) directory.  Adjust as you see fit.  The only undesired side
effect is that subsequent updates will always require downloading the
complete RPM because the missing files cause the delta RPM rebuild to
fail.  (The failover to full download is automatic.)

#!/bin/bash
if [ -n "$1" ]; then
cd "$1" || exit
fi
case "$PWD" in
*/extensions)
;;
*)
cd "$PWD/extensions" || exit;;
esac
dirs="$(ls -d langpack-* | grep -v '^langpack-fr' | tr '\n' ' ')"
if [ -z "$dirs" ]; then
echo "${0##*/}: Nothing to do" >&2
exit 1
fi
echo "Removing: $dirs"
read -p 'OK [yN]? '
[ "$REPLY" = y -o "$REPLY" = Y ] && rm -r $dirs


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Re: F12 Live CHECKSUM failing

[Tim]

On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 11:53 -0800, suvayu ali wrote:
> This shows that your download is corrupted. That would explain all
> your other problems too. You need to download the iso again. If you
> are using direct download, I would suggest you to switch to torrent.
> While downloading torrents, your torrent client (e.g. transmission or
> ktorrent) checks for the checksums of each piece, so corrupted
> downloads are very rare.

One of their prior posts said they got it using a torrent.

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Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files? -

[Mail Lists]

On 12/18/2009 06:27 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> On 17/12/09 20:29, Mail Lists wrote:

> 
>> Ok, I give up! Where can I find instructions, hopefully step by
>> step, to install IMAP with a local server? That sounds like the
>> solution to this problem and a few others.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
> 



  I dont have a walk-through howto so I will wing it .. I will assume
for now that you will not be using or running your own hosted
sendmail/postfix server (that is a little more involved) and all you
want is an imap server to store local mail.

  1) As root edit  /etc/dovecot.conf and make sure you have a directive
to use maildir and store it in your home directory under Maildir (or
whatever you want to use)

 e.g a line such as:

  mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir


  2) service dovecot start

  3) chkconfig dovecot on

 Then in your thunderbird just create a new account -
   server will be 127.0.0.1
   (or whatever the IP or hostname on your local network the server
is running on)

user name (your login on the computer)

connection security - STARTTLS

  Thats it. Create whatever folders you need and then use them.

  *** Minor Subtlety:

  You may find (likely will) that thunderbird will complain about the
ssl certificate being self signed by an unknown authority - for now just
tell it its ok - to remove this you'll need to create a better cert -
which is signed by a known certificate authority.

  I suggest a free server certificate from startcom - which is probably
your best bet. They are quick and easy and thunderbird and firefox have
them listed already as an acceptable CA (certficate authority). There
are others but most cost money - avoid things like cacert.org as they
are not known by any browser.


   Go here:

   http://www.startssl.com/

  Once you get the server certificate from them - you'll have 2 files -
a key file (ssl.key) and a xxx.crt file.

   You'll ;likely need to convert them to pem format using something like

  openssl x509 -inform der -in xxx.crt -out xxx.pem

   The edit the dovecot.conf file again and look for the lines

  ssl_cert_file
and
  ssl_key_file ...

  Change the to point to your lovely new certificate and restart dovecot
(service dovecot restart).

  Best of luck.  Look in /var/log/maillog for hints of any problems ...

  gene


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Re: diskless with /usr on nfs: mount.nfs depends on /usr/lib/libtirpc.so !?!

[Rob]

> However, somehow the diskless client was unable to mount /usr
> over nfs, and (after pulling out my hair for a while) I suddenly
> discovered that the /sbin/mount.nfs actually depends on a library
> on /usr:
>
> $ ldd /sbin/mount.nfs | grep usr
> libtirpc.so.1 => /usr/lib/libtirpc.so.1
> libgssglue.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgssglue.so.1
>
> The executable which mounts /usr depends on a library that is
> not mounted yetthe snake seems to bite its own tail here!

This seems to be more likely an error in the library packages:
libtirpc-0.2.0-4.fc12.i686
libgssglue-0.1-8.fc12.i686

Their libraries should be installed in /lib NOT in /usr/lib !!

Other people encountered this before, for example:
http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/eldk/2008-January/61.html
http://lists.mandriva.com/bugs/2009-11/msg05425.php

So I wonder why it has not been fixed in F12.

Rob.


  

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Re: mplayer fc12-86_64

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Friday 18 December 2009 21:52:12 david walcroft wrote:
> On 12/18/2009 11:11 AM, david walcroft wrote:
> > I have the problem of constant flashing at start up of a movie.
> > I also tried other players (totem) they played videos but no sound,I
> > checked various volume levels and they were all at maximum.
>
> [da...@reddwarf ~]$ mplayer kinema/garfield-tsr_m320.mov
> Warning unknown option cache-prefill at line 148
> MPlayer SVN-r29800-4.4.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
> This codecs.conf is too old and incompatible with this MPlayer release!
> at line 6

What do you have in ~/.mplayer/ directory? It looks like you have some stale 
old files from previous versions of mplayer? Try renaming the directory and let 
mplayer create a new directory for itself with default contents. Then try 
playing the movie again.

> Playing kinema/garfield-tsr_m320.mov.
> Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)
> libavformat file format detected.
> [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x2f1be50]multiple edit list entries, a/v
> desync might occur, patch welcome

I am not sure if this is because some confused options in the old config files 
or the movie you're trying to play is badly encoded... Anyway it does warn you 
that audio and video might get out of sync. I'm not sure if that amounts to 
"flashing" you see or not.

> AO: [alsa] 22050Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)

Don't you have pulseaudio on by default? Try

  mplayer -ao pulse kinema/garfield-tsr_m320.mov

> Plays well in the terminal but with out sound.

I'm not surprised there is no sound, given that it tries to use alsa instead 
of pulseaudio.

Ok, three recommendations:

1) Try to play some other file. If it is fine, than this particular movie might 
be broken somehow.

2) Rename ~/.mplayer/ directory to something else. If there are some old/wrong 
config files and settings in there, they can confuse mplayer.

3) Check your sound configuration. Make sure pulseaudio is running, system 
sounds and other music can be played without problems etc. Force mplayer to 
use pulseaudio with "-ao pulse" option, although it *should* do it by default 
anyway.

Btw, I understood that you were previously trying mplayer outside the 
terminal, ie. using a GUI. What GUI were you using?

HTH, :-)
Marko



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Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files? -

[Bob Goodwin]

On 17/12/09 20:29, Mail Lists wrote:

On 12/17/2009 04:33 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
   

There must be a way to save/export/import Thunderbirds email files
when going from F-11 to F-12! I have never been able to do this
despite suggestions to simply move the Thunderbirds "Mail" files.
Every six months or so I lose all the mail when I upgrade Fedora and
reinstall Thunderbirds,
 


WHile you can usually re-use your .thunderbird directory, one should
never save any email in thunderbird local format in my view. I use TB
coz I still thinks its the best of a bunch.

A far, far better way than using local TB storage, is to simply run a
local imap server (dovecot works really well) and use that. The major
advantages are

 (i) You are now essentially indifferent to what mail client you use
- and its simple quick to change between different mail clients.

 (ii) TB local storage (mbox format) was designed in the 70's ... and
it has long since been replaced by far far safer, faster and superior
formats.

  mbox format is a single large file - so if you delete a message in
the middle, it doesn't actually delete it (too slow) until you
"compress" it. Using a modern format (like maildir++) never needs
compression and the risk of corruption is gone.


[MS outmook uses a similar approach - and they have similar problems
- corrupted mail files. There is a small cottage industry of repair
programs which attempt to recover mails from a corrpted outlook.pst file! ]

   And remember to turn off GLODA too in tb 3 or you're in for all kinds
of gigabyte files and slow to start and run tb.

   


good luck!




Ok, I give up! Where can I find instructions, hopefully step by
step, to install IMAP with a local server? That sounds like the
solution to this problem and a few others.

Bob




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Re: Setting up user in Bugzilla

[Julian Aloofi]

Am Freitag, den 18.12.2009, 18:18 -0500 schrieb Jim:
> In /etc/abrt/plugins/Bugzilla.conf, do you enter your Username and 
> Password or
> Email address and password ?
> 
> I changed my password and it won't let me send a Bug Report, it's having 
> problem with username and password.
> 
> Dec 18 6;00pm bugzilla goes off net for 8 hours.
> 
This means exactly what it says. Bugzilla is going offline for 8 hours,
should be back online tomorrow. :)


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Setting up user in Bugzilla

[Jim]

In /etc/abrt/plugins/Bugzilla.conf, do you enter your Username and 
Password or

Email address and password ?

I changed my password and it won't let me send a Bug Report, it's having 
problem with username and password.


Dec 18 6;00pm bugzilla goes off net for 8 hours.

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Re: Tar oddity...

[Chris]

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:47:26 +0100
DB  wrote:

> On 12/18/2009 01:23 PM, fedora-list-requ...@redhat.com wrote:
> > Subject:
> > Re: Tar oddity...
> > From:
> > Ralf Corsepius 
> > Date:
> > Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:28:09 +0100
> >
> > To:
> > "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." 
> > 
> >
> >
> > On 12/17/2009 11:51 PM, DB wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I've just (re)installed F12 on my laptop, & tried to copy my home
> >> directory (F11) from my desktop using tar.
> >>
> >> The create went OK, & I can do tar tvh on the desktop no probs.
> >> But when I connect the external drive to the laptop, tar tvh says
> >> it's closing because of previous errors; ark refuses to open
> >> the .tar.gz file as it has errors.
> >
> > Please show us the actual error message. You are not providing 
> > sufficient details to be able to help.
> >
> > Ralf
> >
> Hi Ralf,
> 
> ark puts up a dialog box
> reading the archive ".tar.gz"
> failed with the error
> 'The archive reading failed with message: Damaged tar archive'
> 
> and tar tvf reads 45 entries and then
> 
>  tar: skipping to next header
>  tar: exiting with failure status due to previous errors
> 
> but doesn't say what previous errors!
> 
> TIA
> 
> Dave
> 

Why not use tar -zxvf xxx.tar.gz unless, its just xxx.tar, then it
would be tar -xvf xxx.tar

Otherwise, perhaps your archive never finished correctly or is
corrupt. it would be interesting to see the command you used to
create the archive.

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Re: wifi-radar

[Mikkel]

On 12/18/2009 02:00 PM, jarmo wrote:
> I installed wifi-radar with yum into fc12 , but 
> I get, when trying to start it:
> 
> wifi-radar
> Can't open /etc/wifi-radar.conf.
> Are you root?
> 
> What I'm missing?
> 
> Jarmo
> 
You need to create the /etc/wifi-radar.conf file. I believe there is
a template in the documentation.

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Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

[Mikkel]

On 12/18/2009 01:59 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote:
> I have a Kingston Data Traveler 8GB Flash drive that was previously
> formatted FAT32. I reformatted it ext3 simply by clicking on the icon
> and choosing "Format", but it still has only 3.7 GB available.
> 
> Any way around this?
> 
You reformatted the existing partition. So it is the same size as
the FAT32 partition. If you want to use the entire drive, you will
need to re-partition it. You will probably want to use gparted for
this. You have the choice of creating a second partition, expanding
the existing partition to use the full drive, or deleting the
current partition, and creating a new one.

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Re: Installing F12 on a Netbook sans Swap

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi Richard,

I can answer only one of your concerns.

On Friday 18 December 2009 01:34 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:

3. After giving up on the graphical installer I went text based which
had it's own set of challenges. Primarilly it would not let me setup a
custom partition layout, and secondly it didn't seem to install X as
after rebooting I was dumped to a VT.



The text based installer _intentionally_ does not have support for 
custom partitioning since F12. Its in the Release notes.


And addressing your second query, when you install in text mode, the 
default runlevel is set to runlevel 3. All you have to do is change that 
in /etc/inittab or /boot/grub/grub.conf


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Re: Tar oddity...

[Aldo Foot]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 5:47 AM, DB  wrote:
> On 12/18/2009 01:23 PM, fedora-list-requ...@redhat.com wrote:
>>
>> Subject:
>> Re: Tar oddity...
>> From:
>> Ralf Corsepius 
>> Date:
>> Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:28:09 +0100
>>
>> To:
>> "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora."
>> 
>>
>>
>> On 12/17/2009 11:51 PM, DB wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I've just (re)installed F12 on my laptop, & tried to copy my home
>>> directory (F11) from my desktop using tar.
>>>
>>> The create went OK, & I can do tar tvh on the desktop no probs. But when
>>> I connect the external drive to the laptop, tar tvh says it's closing
>>> because of previous errors; ark refuses to open the .tar.gz file as it
>>> has errors.
>>
>> Please show us the actual error message. You are not providing sufficient
>> details to be able to help.
>>
>> Ralf
>>
> Hi Ralf,
>
> ark puts up a dialog box
> reading the archive ".tar.gz"
> failed with the error
> 'The archive reading failed with message: Damaged tar archive'
>
> and tar tvf reads 45 entries and then
>
>    tar: skipping to next header
>    tar: exiting with failure status due to previous errors
>
> but doesn't say what previous errors!
>
> TIA
>
> Dave
__

Try this --it might or it might not work, but it worth a try:

OPTION 1:
- launch Midnight Commander
- select the file.tar.gz and press F2 for Menu
- select 'x' for extracts contents of a compressed tar file.

OPTION 2:
decompress the tarball
$ gzip -d file.tar.gz
extract what can be salvaged
$ cpio -ivd -H tar < file.tar

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How to import filters in thunderbird

[Paolo Galtieri]

When I select import from the tools menu in the latest thunderbird, select
Filters and click next I get a get a dialog box which says:

Please select the type of file that you would like to import

There are no options.  So how do I import filters?

I have not tried to import everything and point to the file that contains
the filters only to see if that works, but I should be able to update just
the filters.

Paolo
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Acroread security problem?

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

I stumbled on this warning in a recent issue of Computerworld Online, at

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142479/Adobe_explains_PDF_patch_delay
and have taken Adobe's advice, which is to disable Javascript in
acroread.
Adobe has confirmed a critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader and
Acrobat 9.2 and earlier versions that could cause a crash and
potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected
system. There are reports that this vulnerability is being
actively exploited in the wild. Adobe recommends customers
follow the mitigation guidance below until a patch is available.

Is the warning is for Windows only or also for Linux?

Thanks - jon


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Re: mplayer fc12-86_64

[david walcroft]

On 12/18/2009 11:11 AM, david walcroft wrote:

I have the problem of constant flashing at start up of a movie.
I also tried other players (totem) they played videos but no sound,I
checked various volume levels and they were all at maximum.

david



[da...@reddwarf ~]$ mplayer kinema/garfield-tsr_m320.mov
Warning unknown option cache-prefill at line 148
MPlayer SVN-r29800-4.4.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
This codecs.conf is too old and incompatible with this MPlayer release! 
at line 6

mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote 
control.


Playing kinema/garfield-tsr_m320.mov.
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)
libavformat file format detected.
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x2f1be50]multiple edit list entries, a/v 
desync might occur, patch welcome

[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1
[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 2
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 3
VIDEO:  [SVQ3]  320x172  24bpp  12.000 fps  403.3 kbps (49.2 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 copyright-eng: �2003 20th Century Fox
 title: Garfield The Movie
 copyright: �2003 20th Century Fox
 title-eng: Garfield The Movie
 comment: QuickTime 5 version encoded and delivered by 
www.apple.com/trailers/
 comment-eng: QuickTime 5 version encoded and delivered by 
www.apple.com/trailers/

==
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffsvq3] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg Sorenson Video v3 (SVQ3))
==
==
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 56.0 kbit/7.94% (ratio: 7000->88200)
Selected audio codec: [ffqdm2] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg QDM2 audio)
==
AO: [alsa] 22050Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 320x172 => 320x172 Planar YV12
[ASPECT] Warning: No suitable new res found!
A:  26.9 V:  26.8 A-V:  0.032 ct: -0.041   0/  0  1%  0%  0.8% 2 0 24% 



Exiting... (Quit)
[da...@reddwarf ~]$

Plays well in the terminal but with out sound.

david

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Automatic Bug Reporting Tool locks up

[Jim]

FC12/KDE
Failure of starting Yumex, the Automatic Bug Tool starts to make Report 
and then freezes and after one minute it comes back and says it has 
Terminated by signal 11


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Installing F12 on a Netbook sans Swap

[Richard Shaw]

I recently tried to install F12 on my Asus EEEPC 4G and after figuring
out how to get around the USB CD/DVD drive issue[1] I quickly ran into
a few problems:

1. The buttons in Anaconda were not visable, I had to TAB/SHIFT-TAB
around an fumble my way through.
2. Anaconda would not allow me to setup my partitions without Swap.
The error message seemed to indicate that the installer required it,
however, I had no issues with installing F11. I don't want swap on my
Netbook. I don't do any heavy duty computing and haven't had any
problems running swapless in F11.
3. After giving up on the graphical installer I went text based which
had it's own set of challenges. Primarilly it would not let me setup a
custom partition layout, and secondly it didn't seem to install X as
after rebooting I was dumped to a VT.

I don't use a live CD or LXDE spin as I think they both require EXT4
since they copy their image over and I don't want journaling overhead
on my 4GB SSD.

Any advice?

Thanks,
Richard

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539720

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Re: Tar oddity...

[José Matos]

On Friday 18 December 2009 20:11:00 DB wrote:
> Thanks Rick,
> 
> I've been doing
> tar tvf F11*.gz on both machines.  Works on the F11 desktop, not on the 
> F12 Lappy.
> 
> Your tvfz suggestion stops in the same place. :-(
> 
> ??
> 
> Dave

What does "file .tar.gz" says about it?

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Re: another thunderbird bug

[Kevin J. Cummings]

On 12/18/2009 03:20 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> When I click on "View settings for this account" link on the thunderbird
> main page it brings up the "account settings" dialog box.  If I click on
> "servr settings", "junk settings", or any other option except "Copies
> and Folders" I get the appropriate dialog.  Once I click on "Copies and
> Folders" I remain stuck on that dialog no matter what other dialog I
> click on.  I have to cancel and select the account settings link again
> if I want to change other settings.

Works fine for me on F11.x86_64.  Questions:

Were you running Thunderbird when you updated it?

Did you restart it after the update completed?  (Firefox and Thunderbird
are notorious for getting lost in their Chrome stuff if its updated
while they are running.)

What does Help/About Thunderbird show for your version?

> Also in the frame on the left side where it shows my email accounts and
> local folders if I click on any of them I get the following error
> 
> Error: uncaught exception: unable to find folder to select!
> 
> The problem is the email account that is shown is, e.g.
> 
> pgalti...@gmail.com 
> 
> The account folder name is actually
> 
> pop.gmail.com 
> 
> This is all worked just fine with the previous version of thunderbird.
> 
> Even when I click on Local Folders it doesn't show my local folders.

All this sounds like you are still running the "old" thunderbird with
the new stuff installed.  Kill it, and try running the new one again.

> Is there anyway to download the previous version of thunderbird?

Yes, but knowing your current version numbers would be helpful.

yum supports downgrading.  If you can find the previous RPM, you can
downgrade to it.

> Paolo

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Re: How to remove language packs from thunderbird

[Frank Cox]

On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 12:48 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> When I bring up thunderbird as a normal user it lists a large number
> of languages available.  I only need 2 languages, how do I remove the
> ones I don't need?

I just delete all of the langpack-* files in /usr/lib/firefox*
or /usr/lib64/firefox*

>  but when I bring up thunderbird as a regular user after removing the
> language packs as root they are still present.

I don't use thunderbird, but once I have removed the langpacks from
firefox as described above, they are gone in firefox.

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Re: please help! -- F12: login disallowed upon changing shell from bash to tcsh

[Phil Meyer]

On 12/18/2009 11:56 AM, Globe Trotter wrote:

Hi,

I installed F12 from the LXDE spin and it came up all right. However, upon 
changing my login shell from bash to tcsh, I can no longer log in using the 
graphical desktop. Specifically I get the message:

"Failed to execute login command"

After a day's worth of troubleshooting, I have tracked it down to changing the 
login shell from bash to tcsh. Any suggestions as to how i can have tcsh as 
well as be able to log in?

Btw, I am using slim because I am using the LXDE spin.

Any help is much appreciated!!

Best wishes,
T




   


tcsh is no longer installed by default.

From the graphical login screen:



Log in as root:

# yum install tcsh
#exit



You should now be able to login.

Or use: System/Administration/Add-Remove Software
if you have another user available.

Good Luck!

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Re: new thunderbird lost all my calendar events

[Kevin J. Cummings]

On 12/18/2009 02:40 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> I updated my F12 system today and a new version of thunderbird and
> thunderbird-lightning were downloaded.  When I started up TB and brought
> up my calendar
> all the events I had previously scheduled were gone!
> 
> Is there anyway to restore them?

Is your "local" calendar enabled or disabled?  Mine was disabled due to
an error.  A solution was posted here in the last few days.  It involves
running "sqlite3 ~/.thunderbird/*.default/local.sqlite" and issuing 4
commands to correct your database:

See:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542736

it worked for me.

> Paolo

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another thunderbird bug

[Paolo Galtieri]

When I click on "View settings for this account" link on the thunderbird
main page it brings up the "account settings" dialog box.  If I click on
"servr settings", "junk settings", or any other option except "Copies and
Folders" I get the appropriate dialog.  Once I click on "Copies and Folders"
I remain stuck on that dialog no matter what other dialog I click on.  I
have to cancel and select the account settings link again if I want to
change other settings.

Also in the frame on the left side where it shows my email accounts and
local folders if I click on any of them I get the following error

Error: uncaught exception: unable to find folder to select!

The problem is the email account that is shown is, e.g.

pgalti...@gmail.com

The account folder name is actually

pop.gmail.com

This is all worked just fine with the previous version of thunderbird.

Even when I click on Local Folders it doesn't show my local folders.

Is there anyway to download the previous version of thunderbird?

Paolo
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OOPS - ignore my email re thunderbird bug.

[Paolo Galtieri]

Evethough I had restarted thunderbird it apparently took yet another restart
to get things to work.  So right now the only thunderbird problem has to do
with the calendar.

Sorry,
Paolo
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Re: Someone installed vmware server on fedora 12?

[Ambrogio]

Il giorno mar, 15/12/2009 alle 10.33 +0530, Jatin K ha scritto:

> I've installed VMware server[1] and VMware Workstation[2] without any 
> problem.. and it works fine for me ( though I've enabled 3d graphics in 
> VMWare workstation but it does not seem to work , I've installed Windows 
> 7 64bit  ) my Graphics card is Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset 
> Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
> 
> [1] VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.x86_64
> 
> [2] VMware Workstation 7.0.0.203739
> 
Hi Jatin... tnx

Did you used any patch?
Bye
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Re: Tar oddity...

[DB]

On 12/18/2009 07:40 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:

On 12/18/2009 05:47 AM, DB wrote:

On 12/18/2009 01:23 PM, fedora-list-requ...@redhat.com wrote:

Subject:
Re: Tar oddity...
From:
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Date:
Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:28:09 +0100

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On 12/17/2009 11:51 PM, DB wrote:

Hi All,

I've just (re)installed F12 on my laptop, & tried to copy my home
directory (F11) from my desktop using tar.

The create went OK, & I can do tar tvh on the desktop no probs. But 
when

I connect the external drive to the laptop, tar tvh says it's closing
because of previous errors; ark refuses to open the .tar.gz file as it
has errors.


Please show us the actual error message. You are not providing
sufficient details to be able to help.

Ralf


Hi Ralf,

ark puts up a dialog box
reading the archive ".tar.gz"
failed with the error
'The archive reading failed with message: Damaged tar archive'

and tar tvf reads 45 entries and then

tar: skipping to next header
tar: exiting with failure status due to previous errors

but doesn't say what previous errors!


Try "tar tvzf xxx.tar.gz".  The fact it has a ".gz" at the end indicates
that it's a gzipped tar file so you must specify "z" in the tar command
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Thanks Rick,

I've been doing
tar tvf F11*.gz on both machines.  Works on the F11 desktop, not on the 
F12 Lappy.


Your tvfz suggestion stops in the same place. :-(

??

Dave


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wifi-radar

[jarmo]

I installed wifi-radar with yum into fc12 , but 
I get, when trying to start it:

wifi-radar
Can't open /etc/wifi-radar.conf.
Are you root?

What I'm missing?

Jarmo

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8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

[Marcel Rieux]

I have a Kingston Data Traveler 8GB Flash drive that was previously
formatted FAT32. I reformatted it ext3 simply by clicking on the icon
and choosing "Format", but it still has only 3.7 GB available.

Any way around this?

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Re: new thunderbird lost all my calendar events

[Paolo Galtieri]

I discovered the following errors from thunderbird

Error: Error updating timezones: Error: mozIStorageStatement::step()
returned an error
DB Error no such column: recurrence_id_tz

Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005
(NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [mozIStorageStatement.reset]"  nsresult: "0x80004005
(NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame ::
file:///usr/lib64/thunderbird-3.0/extensions/%7Be2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103%7D/modules/calStorageUpgrade.jsm
:: ensureUpdatedTimezones :: line 380"  data: no]

Sure looks like the new thunderbird isn't ready for prime time.

Paolo

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:49 PM, suvayu ali

> wrote:

> 2009/12/18 Paolo Galtieri :
> > I updated my F12 system today and a new version of thunderbird and
> > thunderbird-lightning were downloaded.  When I started up TB and brought
> up
> > my calendar
> > all the events I had previously scheduled were gone!
> >
> > Is there anyway to restore them?
> >
> > Paolo
>
> Same here. Thankfully my local calendar didn't have any important
> events, I primarily use Google calendar. On trying to create a new
> local calendar, it was returning the same error again. I am on Fedora
> 11 x86_64.
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Re: F12 Live CHECKSUM failing

[suvayu ali]

Hi Saurabh,

2009/12/18 Sawrub :
> On 12/18/2009 12:29 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>> In addition to what Rick mentioned in another post, your command is
>> missing a flag. It should be,
>>
>> $ sha256sum -c *-CHECKSUM
>>
> Executed that also now as a part of other commands,  but still in vain.
>
> [saw...@mybox Fedora-12-x86_64-Live]$ sha256sum -c *-CHECKSUM
> Fedora-12-x86_64-Live.iso: FAILED
> sha256sum: WARNING: 1 of 1 computed checksum did NOT match
> [saw...@mybox Fedora-12-x86_64-Live]$
>
> Is this a bug that needs to be solved.?
>

This shows that your download is corrupted. That would explain all
your other problems too. You need to download the iso again. If you
are using direct download, I would suggest you to switch to torrent.
While downloading torrents, your torrent client (e.g. transmission or
ktorrent) checks for the checksums of each piece, so corrupted
downloads are very rare.

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Re: new thunderbird lost all my calendar events

[suvayu ali]

2009/12/18 Paolo Galtieri :
> I updated my F12 system today and a new version of thunderbird and
> thunderbird-lightning were downloaded.  When I started up TB and brought up
> my calendar
> all the events I had previously scheduled were gone!
>
> Is there anyway to restore them?
>
> Paolo

Same here. Thankfully my local calendar didn't have any important
events, I primarily use Google calendar. On trying to create a new
local calendar, it was returning the same error again. I am on Fedora
11 x86_64.

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How to remove language packs from thunderbird

[Paolo Galtieri]

When I bring up thunderbird as a normal user it lists a large number of
languages available.  I only need 2 languages, how do I remove the ones I
don't need?  I can diable them, but the uninstall button is grayed out.  As
root I can uninstall the language packs, but when I bring up thunderbird as
a regular user after removing the language packs as root they are still
present.

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Re: F12 Live CHECKSUM failing

[Sawrub]

On 12/18/2009 12:29 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote:

On Thursday 17 December 2009 10:21 AM, Sawrub wrote:

On 12/17/2009 11:50 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:

Well, I'm not going to say that the above is not a problem as I saw
the same thing when using the same steps, however, nothing you have
done so far has anything to do directly with the ISO. That doesn't
happen until you do:

sha256sum *-CHECKSUM

Here is the rest of the step.
[saw...@mybox Fedora-12-x86_64-Live]$ sha256sum *-CHECKSUM
3b74f72a6ad75eb8dc849503e9e76569bec37b5677847f98659120f1072c7944
Fedora-12-x86_64-Live-CHECKSUM


In addition to what Rick mentioned in another post, your command is 
missing a flag. It should be,


$ sha256sum -c *-CHECKSUM


Executed that also now as a part of other commands,  but still in vain.

[saw...@mybox Fedora-12-x86_64-Live]$ sha256sum -c *-CHECKSUM
Fedora-12-x86_64-Live.iso: FAILED
sha256sum: WARNING: 1 of 1 computed checksum did NOT match
[saw...@mybox Fedora-12-x86_64-Live]$

Is this a bug that needs to be solved.?

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Re: please help! -- F12: login disallowed upon changing shell from bash to tcsh

[Aldo Foot]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Globe Trotter  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed F12 from the LXDE spin and it came up all right. However, upon 
> changing my login shell from bash to tcsh, I can no longer log in using the 
> graphical desktop. Specifically I get the message:
>
> "Failed to execute login command"
>
> After a day's worth of troubleshooting, I have tracked it down to changing 
> the login shell from bash to tcsh. Any suggestions as to how i can have tcsh 
> as well as be able to log in?
>
> Btw, I am using slim because I am using the LXDE spin.
>
> Any help is much appreciated!!
>
> Best wishes,
> T

So... the tcsh rpm is installed?
   $ rpm -qa tcsh

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Re: F12 Live CHECKSUM failing

[Sawrub]

On 12/18/2009 12:08 AM, Rick Stevens wrote:

On 12/17/2009 10:20 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Sawrub  
wrote:
I downloaded the Fedora-12-x86_64-Live.iso using the torrent client, 
taking

the torrent from
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents//Fedora-12-x86_64-Live.torrent. 

But the creation of bootable USB was not possible as the iso 
verification

failed message came up in the USB creator.
Verifying the iso following the steps at
'https://fedoraproject.org/en/verify' also resulted in vain. Please 
help me

so that the b/w does not goes wasted.

[saw...@mybox Fedora-12-x86_64-Live]$ ll
total 671756
-rw-rw-r--  1 sawrub sawrub   966 2009-12-17 22:34
Fedora-12-x86_64-Live-CHECKSUM
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 sawrub sawrub 687865856 2009-12-03 00:18
Fedora-12-x86_64-Live.iso
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 sawrub sawrub   152 2009-12-02 23:50 README-SOURCES

[saw...@mybox Fedora-12-x86_64-Live]$ curl
https://fedoraproject.org/static/fedora.gpg | gpg --import
  % Total% Received % Xferd  Average Speed   TimeTime Time
  Current
 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent
Left  Speed
100  9323  100  93230 0   4396  0  0:00:02  0:00:02 
--:--:--

  8696
gpg: key 4EBFC273: "Fedora (10)" not changed
gpg: key 0B86274E: "Fedora (10 testing)" not
changed
gpg: key D22E77F2: "Fedora (11)" not changed
gpg: key 57BBCCBA: "Fedora (12)" not changed
gpg: key 217521F6: "Fedora EPEL" not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 5
gpg:  unchanged: 5

[saw...@mybox Fedora-12-x86_64-Live]$ gpg --verify *-CHECKSUM
gpg: Signature made Tue 10 Nov 2009 01:26:40 AM IST using RSA key ID
57BBCCBA
gpg: Good signature from "Fedora (12)"
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg:  There is no indication that the signature belongs to the
owner.
Primary key fingerprint: 6BF1 78D2 8A78 9C74 AC0D  C63B 9D1C C348 
57BB CCBA

[saw...@mybox Fedora-12-x86_64-Live]$


Well, I'm not going to say that the above is not a problem as I saw
the same thing when using the same steps, however, nothing you have
done so far has anything to do directly with the ISO. That doesn't
happen until you do:

sha256sum *-CHECKSUM

When I actually found very confusing because if you look in the file
the headers shows "SHA1" not "SHA256" and there are commands for both
"sha1sum" and "sha256sum".


This has been discussed before on the list.

The header indicates that the checksum file _itself_ was signed with an
SHA1 checksum.  The checksums _inside_ the checksum file are the SHA256
checksums of the various .iso images.
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Please tell me how to get through this.


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new thunderbird lost all my calendar events

[Paolo Galtieri]

I updated my F12 system today and a new version of thunderbird and
thunderbird-lightning were downloaded.  When I started up TB and brought up
my calendar
all the events I had previously scheduled were gone!

Is there anyway to restore them?

Paolo
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Re: Tar oddity...

[José Matos]

On Friday 18 December 2009 18:40:59 Rick Stevens wrote:
> Try "tar tvzf xxx.tar.gz".  The fact it has a ".gz" at the end indicates
> that it's a gzipped tar file so you must specify "z" in the tar command
> line.

The versions that Fedora carries should be able to understand this without the 
need for the z (or j or x).

I found this on the list some time ago (one year?).

So if the file is compressed with gzip
"tar tvf xxx.tar.gz" should work as tar recognises the compression used.

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please help! -- F12: login disallowed upon changing shell from bash to tcsh

[Globe Trotter]

Hi,

I installed F12 from the LXDE spin and it came up all right. However, upon 
changing my login shell from bash to tcsh, I can no longer log in using the 
graphical desktop. Specifically I get the message: 

"Failed to execute login command"

After a day's worth of troubleshooting, I have tracked it down to changing the 
login shell from bash to tcsh. Any suggestions as to how i can have tcsh as 
well as be able to log in?

Btw, I am using slim because I am using the LXDE spin.

Any help is much appreciated!!

Best wishes,
T


  

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Re: Tar oddity...

[Rick Stevens]

On 12/18/2009 05:47 AM, DB wrote:

On 12/18/2009 01:23 PM, fedora-list-requ...@redhat.com wrote:

Subject:
Re: Tar oddity...
From:
Ralf Corsepius 
Date:
Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:28:09 +0100

To:
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On 12/17/2009 11:51 PM, DB wrote:

Hi All,

I've just (re)installed F12 on my laptop, & tried to copy my home
directory (F11) from my desktop using tar.

The create went OK, & I can do tar tvh on the desktop no probs. But when
I connect the external drive to the laptop, tar tvh says it's closing
because of previous errors; ark refuses to open the .tar.gz file as it
has errors.


Please show us the actual error message. You are not providing
sufficient details to be able to help.

Ralf


Hi Ralf,

ark puts up a dialog box
reading the archive ".tar.gz"
failed with the error
'The archive reading failed with message: Damaged tar archive'

and tar tvf reads 45 entries and then

tar: skipping to next header
tar: exiting with failure status due to previous errors

but doesn't say what previous errors!


Try "tar tvzf xxx.tar.gz".  The fact it has a ".gz" at the end indicates
that it's a gzipped tar file so you must specify "z" in the tar command
line.
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Re: SB driver in F12 ?

[Luc MAIGNAN]

A lspci -v gives me the following informations :

02:00.0 Audio device: Creative Labs SB X-Fi
Subsystem: Creative Labs Device 6002
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
Memory at dfff8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Memory at dfc0 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
Memory at d800 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
I/O ports at df00 [size=32]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Kernel driver in use: SB-XFi
Kernel modules: snd-ctxfi


I don't know the real type of my card, since I didn't open the cover :-(

Le 18/12/09 17:46, Frode Petersen a écrit :

Stewart Williams wrote:

Frode Petersen wrote:

According to the ALSA soundcard matrix [1] they support PCI versions
(not PC-cards?) from ALSA v.1.0.21 onwards. Does this match your setup?

I recently read somwhere (can't recall where) that the drivers were not
very good at the time when Creative open sourced their own (a month or
two ago maybe? I'm not sure.) If true, how much could they improve in
that time? I know this sounds a bit woolly...

[1] 
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Vendor-Creative_Labs


Frode Petersen



Hi Frode,

It's a PCI-e (PCI Express) card, and it's not listed on that web page.



I don't have that card myself, but I found this thread in the ALSA 
maillist archives, maybe reading through it gets you furter:


http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.alsa.devel/67447

Frode



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Re: SB driver in F12 ?

[Frode Petersen]

Stewart Williams wrote:

Frode Petersen wrote:

According to the ALSA soundcard matrix [1] they support PCI versions
(not PC-cards?) from ALSA v.1.0.21 onwards. Does this match your setup?

I recently read somwhere (can't recall where) that the drivers were not
very good at the time when Creative open sourced their own (a month or
two ago maybe? I'm not sure.) If true, how much could they improve in
that time? I know this sounds a bit woolly...

[1] http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Vendor-Creative_Labs

Frode Petersen



Hi Frode,

It's a PCI-e (PCI Express) card, and it's not listed on that web page.



I don't have that card myself, but I found this thread in the ALSA 
maillist archives, maybe reading through it gets you furter:


http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.alsa.devel/67447

Frode

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Re: Some Thunderbird attachments don't start application

[Jim]

On 12/18/2009 08:07 AM, Antonio M wrote:

2009/12/18 Tim:
   

On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 11:50 +0100, Antonio M wrote:
 

I got an attachment (Microsoft Office doc) but I didn't get the option
of F11 to open it with Openoffice or any other application, there is
no open with option, same attachment open  fine in F12, starting
Openoffice writer!!!
   

Chances are that whoever sent you that file sent it with the wrong MIME
type descriptor.  The sending client describes the type of file, and the
receiving client passes that file off to the default application for
that type of file.  If the *type* is not correctly outlined, then the
whole system fails to work.

Most likely, it was described as application/octet-stream which means
"this is some unknown kind of binary file, figure out how to handle this
by yourself."  If you try to set up your system to believe that all such
unidentified files are word documents, by default, then you're setting
yourself up for failure with the next NON word document that's sent with
the *unknown* *binary* file type description.

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tnx for the great explanation, Tim.I don't understand why same
attachment starts openoffice in F12 (two boxes) , that are both
standard installation.
What is different???


   
I have the same problem with playing .wmv files in Thunderbird . the 
/edit/pref./attachments has VLC set to play .wmv files, but some .wmv 
files won't play, it wants me to "Save" them.


I think it has to do with Mime Types.
I get this one person that has a XP computer sends me .jpg pictures and 
I can never see them, unless I save them.
The Content Type is set to something different than a .jpg content and 
Thunderbird doesn't understand that Content Type.


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Re: F12 and wi-fi dongles

[Alan Cox]

> hand load usb-storage. Unfortunately I hit several other showstopper FC12
> bugs (random crashes of kvm etc) that I've not debugging it bug gone back
> to a working release.
> 

(Engage brain before posting)

I've not debugged it but gone back to ..

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Re: F12 and wi-fi dongles

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:34:27 +0100
Antonio M  wrote:

> As I cannot connect by a Huawei dongle in F12 (on two different
> boxes), I re-installed F11 on a third machine and bam, I was
> immediately on-line (after some modification on usb_modeswitch.conf
> file).
> Digging on different files I could not find any usb_modeswitch.rules
> files in /etc/udev/rules.d
> Is this the reason why the system is not working with wireless dongle
> It can be a clue also for  Bug 541686 -  Huawei 1692 is not recognized
> as a 3G card with standard file
> Or am I wrong??

Same problem with the Huawei dongle I have here. It sort of worked if I
hand load usb-storage. Unfortunately I hit several other showstopper FC12
bugs (random crashes of kvm etc) that I've not debugging it bug gone back
to a working release.

Try hand loading usb-storage though - it may help

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Re: disabling automount in Fedora 12

[John Lumby]

Eric wrote:

> Thanks Tom!  That at least gave me a hint as to where this is happening.
> I used the sledgehammer approach of removing the DeviceKit-disks package
> entirely.  That works, but a very cryptic error window does pop up every
> time I plug in a disk, and I don't get optical media automounted either.
> There ought to be a better solution, but this at least solves my immediate
> problem.

a lighter hammer :

mv /usr/libexec/devkit-disks-daemon /usr/libexec/devkit-disks-daemon.hide

and also kill the running deamons if you want it to work before next boot:
COLUMNS=720 ps -eo pid,ppid,uname,tty,stat,etime,time,pcpu,args | egrep -ie 
'dev.*kit' | fgrep -v grep
 1623 1 root ?S   21:00:54 00:00:22  0.0 
/usr/libexec/devkit-power-daemon
 1987 1 root ?S   21:00:36 00:00:00  0.0 
/usr/libexec/devkit-disks-daemon
 1996  1987 root ?S   21:00:34 00:00:00  0.0 
devkit-disks-daemon: not polling any devices

kill 1996 1987

works without any annoying error pop-ups.

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Re: Fedora mailing list migration

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 06:44:52PM -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > When is this migration going too occur? And where is it described? I
> > did not see it on the announce list.
> 
> Check the announce list archives, it's there.
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/thread.html

Also, I asked one of the folks on the migration team to write up a
short wiki page that describes what users should expect to see and do
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Re: Daily Kernel Panics

[Hiisi]

2009/12/18 Steven Stern 
>
> On 12/13/2009 10:32 AM, Steven Stern wrote:
<--SNIP-->
>>>
>>> I have had this problem in the past with Fedora 9, I believe using ATI
>>> graphics cards. I tracked it down to glxgears (posted to this group
>>> then) getting invoked and eliminated it to get around this problem.
>>> Specifically, I did
>>>
>>> yum erase glx-utils
>>>
>>> This may not work for you because you may use glxgears for something
>>> but it did work for me.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>> T
<--SNIP-->
>
> Steve
>

 Do you have desktop effects enabled? I found that my system
 is much
 more stable with desktop effects turned off [1]. My video
<--SNIP-->
>>
>
> Just for the record.   Since I've turned off desktop effects, the frequent 
> crashes are gone.
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>

Since I've yumerased glx-utils the problem has gone at all. Now my
system is stable like a Linux ;-)
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Re: Tar oddity...

[DB]

On 12/18/2009 01:23 PM, fedora-list-requ...@redhat.com wrote:

Subject:
Re: Tar oddity...
From:
Ralf Corsepius 
Date:
Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:28:09 +0100

To:
"Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." 




On 12/17/2009 11:51 PM, DB wrote:

Hi All,

I've just (re)installed F12 on my laptop, & tried to copy my home
directory (F11) from my desktop using tar.

The create went OK, & I can do tar tvh on the desktop no probs. But when
I connect the external drive to the laptop, tar tvh says it's closing
because of previous errors; ark refuses to open the .tar.gz file as it
has errors.


Please show us the actual error message. You are not providing 
sufficient details to be able to help.


Ralf


Hi Ralf,

ark puts up a dialog box
reading the archive ".tar.gz"
failed with the error
'The archive reading failed with message: Damaged tar archive'

and tar tvf reads 45 entries and then

tar: skipping to next header
tar: exiting with failure status due to previous errors

but doesn't say what previous errors!

TIA

Dave

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F12 and wi-fi dongles

[Antonio M]

As I cannot connect by a Huawei dongle in F12 (on two different
boxes), I re-installed F11 on a third machine and bam, I was
immediately on-line (after some modification on usb_modeswitch.conf
file).
Digging on different files I could not find any usb_modeswitch.rules
files in /etc/udev/rules.d
Is this the reason why the system is not working with wireless dongle
It can be a clue also for  Bug 541686 -  Huawei 1692 is not recognized
as a 3G card with standard file
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Re: Daily Kernel Panics

[Steven Stern]

On 12/13/2009 10:32 AM, Steven Stern wrote:

On 12/13/2009 07:25 AM, Globe Trotter wrote:

--- On Sun, 12/13/09, Hiisi wrote:


From: Hiisi
Subject: Re: Daily Kernel Panics
To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using
Fedora."
Date: Sunday, December 13, 2009, 2:34 AM
2009/12/12 Steven Stern:

On 12/11/2009 03:45 PM, Hiisi wrote:


2009/12/11 Steven Stern:


How do I report these? I get about one a day,

typically while in Firefox

and
doing something else. The machine locks up

tight (flashing num and

scroll
locks) and requires power cycling and nothing

seems to get logged. Abrt

doesn't see it after restart.




I have had this problem in the past with Fedora 9, I believe using ATI
graphics cards. I tracked it down to glxgears (posted to this group
then) getting invoked and eliminated it to get around this problem.
Specifically, I did

yum erase glx-utils

This may not work for you because you may use glxgears for something
but it did work for me.

Best wishes,
T




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Steve



The same here:
Linux ***.** 2.6.30.9-102.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Thu Dec

3 23:46:37 EST 2009

i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
And yes, Firefox is not always involved. I've

already asked the

question on this list (haven't received any

responses).

How do you know it's kernel panic?


When the machine locks up, the caps-lock and

scroll-light both flash. What's

really annoying is that if I'm playing music, it gets

really weird and

scares the cats.

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Do you have desktop effects enabled? I found that my system
is much
more stable with desktop effects turned off [1]. My video
is ATI [2]
with driver 'ati' [3].

Footmarks:
1. ~]$ uptime
10:27:28 up 3 days, 9:22, 3 users, load
average: 0.25, 0.22, 0.18
2. ~]$ lspci
[--SNIP--]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc
RV350 AP [Radeon 9600]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP
[Radeon
9600] (Secondary)
3. ati - Vendor-supplied driver for ati cards



I do have an ATI card. I'll try turning off desktop effects. Removing
glx-utils removes all of compiz!

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60
[Radeon X300 (PCIE)]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE]



Just for the record.   Since I've turned off desktop effects, the 
frequent crashes are gone.


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diskless with /usr on nfs: mount.nfs depends on /usr/lib/libtirpc.so !?!

[Rob]

Hi,

I'm using an up-to-date Fedora 12 with nfs-utils.

I'm setting up a diskless client, which will share most of its system
file system with the server; e.g. the client will have a root-ramdisk
and mounts /usr over nfs; a rather standard procedure explained
on the web.

However, somehow the diskless client was unable to mount /usr
over nfs, and (after pulling out my hair for a while) I suddenly
discovered that the /sbin/mount.nfs actually depends on a library
on /usr:

$ ldd /sbin/mount.nfs | grep usr
libtirpc.so.1 => /usr/lib/libtirpc.so.1
libgssglue.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgssglue.so.1

The executable which mounts /usr depends on a library that is
not mounted yetthe snake seems to bite its own tail here!

When I copied the two libraries (the library and their links) to
/usr, the client could easily nfs-mount the /usr directory!!

Am I missing something here, or is this a serious bug in the
yum/rpm package of nfs-utils?

I'm using:
nfs-utils-lib-1.1.4-8.fc12.i686
nfs-utils-1.2.1-4.fc12.i686

Thanks,
Rob.


  

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no mp3 rip with k3b

[Neal Becker]

k3b-extras-freeworld-1.0.5-7.fc12.x86_64
lame-3.98.2-3.fc11.x86_64
k3b-1.0.5-10.fc12.x86_64

mp3(lame) encoding always fails.  Debugging info from k3b is not very 
informative.  Using all default settings.

k3b reports no problems with system.

ogg-vorbis encoding works fine.

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Re: Some Thunderbird attachments don't start application

[Antonio M]

2009/12/18 Tim :
> On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 11:50 +0100, Antonio M wrote:
>> I got an attachment (Microsoft Office doc) but I didn't get the option
>> of F11 to open it with Openoffice or any other application, there is
>> no open with option, same attachment open  fine in F12, starting
>> Openoffice writer!!!
>
> Chances are that whoever sent you that file sent it with the wrong MIME
> type descriptor.  The sending client describes the type of file, and the
> receiving client passes that file off to the default application for
> that type of file.  If the *type* is not correctly outlined, then the
> whole system fails to work.
>
> Most likely, it was described as application/octet-stream which means
> "this is some unknown kind of binary file, figure out how to handle this
> by yourself."  If you try to set up your system to believe that all such
> unidentified files are word documents, by default, then you're setting
> yourself up for failure with the next NON word document that's sent with
> the *unknown* *binary* file type description.
>
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>

tnx for the great explanation, Tim.I don't understand why same
attachment starts openoffice in F12 (two boxes) , that are both
standard installation.
What is different???


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Re: Some Thunderbird attachments don't start application

[Tim]

On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 11:50 +0100, Antonio M wrote:
> I got an attachment (Microsoft Office doc) but I didn't get the option
> of F11 to open it with Openoffice or any other application, there is
> no open with option, same attachment open  fine in F12, starting
> Openoffice writer!!!

Chances are that whoever sent you that file sent it with the wrong MIME
type descriptor.  The sending client describes the type of file, and the
receiving client passes that file off to the default application for
that type of file.  If the *type* is not correctly outlined, then the
whole system fails to work.

Most likely, it was described as application/octet-stream which means
"this is some unknown kind of binary file, figure out how to handle this
by yourself."  If you try to set up your system to believe that all such
unidentified files are word documents, by default, then you're setting
yourself up for failure with the next NON word document that's sent with
the *unknown* *binary* file type description.

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Re: Fedora 12 not seeing floppy disk controller

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 20:03 -0600, Robert Nichols wrote: 
> For some reason my F-12 system  is not seeing my floppy disk controller
> at boot time.  If I manually run "modprobe floppy" the controller is
> recognized ("FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077") and the drive works.  Any
> ideas?  F-11  finds the controller OK.
> 
> F-12:  kernel-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64, udev-145-14.fc12.x86_64
> F-11:  kernel-2.6.30.9-102.fc11.x86_64, udev-141-7.fc11.x86_64
> 
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How about putting the line: modprobe floppy
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Re: what is the name of a virtual serial port?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 18:46 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: 
> I want to open a USB virtual serial port from python.
> How do I figure out the name to pass to serial.Serial(...)?
> >From poking around in /sys/bus/usb/devices/ ,
> the bus and dev numbers are 4 and 2.
> I recognize product.
> There is lots of stuff under
> /sys.bus/usb/drivers/cdc_acm/4-2:1.0/tty/ttyACM0 ,
> but I don't know what to do with it?
> 
> With Windows, I had to read the registry, but at least I could come up
> with a short list of serial ports that included the virtual serial port.
> I hope I don't *have* to use Windows.
> 
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Re: mplayer fc12-86_64

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Friday 18 December 2009 01:11:59 david walcroft wrote:
> I have the problem of constant flashing at start up of a movie.
> I also tried other players (totem) they played videos but no sound,I
> checked various volume levels and they were all at maximum.

How about running "mplayer yourmoviefile.avi" from a terminal and posting its 
output?

Best, :-)
Marko

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Re: Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

[Bryn M. Reeves]

On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 12:44 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> 
> > I updated my DELL bios this way, it worked great:
> >
> > http://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/create-a-bios-recovery-cd-in-
> > linux/
> 
> I'm not sure I understand the term "recovery" in this context.
> My understanding was that if you trashed your BIOS,
> fixing it involved a soldering iron.
> The fix would not involve a CD because you couldn't use a CD drive.

"recovery CD" here just means "bootable disk with some sort of minimal
OS on it that isn't the OS installed on the system" - don't get hung up
on the word recovery.

Recovery or rescue disk is a common name for these things; it's just
that in this case the purpose is to have some specialised tools for
firmware updates plus a firmware update file of some kind rather than
for rescuing or recovering a problem with the installed OS.

Regards,
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two minor issues with Thunderbird

[Antonio M]

1) I am using filters on incoming mail...I note that there is a
difference in the way regrouped messages are listed, i.e. in the
Incoming folder mail if you get a new message in a discussion all
discussion is moved according to received mail date i.e. on top of the
list , while in the filtered mail messages new messages are regrouped
but leading date is the first message's date

2) in a Thunderbird installation, I see also folders changing colors,
when fresh mail is arriving: how do I start such an option in other
installations - funny that it is working on a F11 installation but not
on F12 installations :-)

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Re: Some Thunderbird attachments don't start application

[Antonio M]

2009/12/18 Ed Greshko :
> Antonio M wrote:
>> 2009/12/18 Ed Greshko :
>>
>>> Antonio M wrote:
>>>
 how do I add an other type of attachment?? I don't see such option,
 maybe too early in the morning
 (I have only OpenDocument text and PDF document, I want to add a
 MicrosoftOffice text...)



>>> AFAIK, you can't add new attachment types directly...at least not from
>>> the GUI.  The actions get created when a particular attachment type is
>>> first encountered and clicked on.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> es
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I guess that some lines have to be added manually to mymetypes.rdf in
>> ./Thunderbird/Profiles folder, but how???
>>
>>
> No  I just means you either have to wait until someone sends you a
> particular attachment or you can send them to yourself.
>
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I got an attachment (Microsoft Office doc) but I didn't get the option
of F11 to open it with Openoffice or any other application, there is
no open with option, same attachment open  fine in F12, starting
Openoffice writer!!!



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Re: Some Thunderbird attachments don't start application

[Ed Greshko]

Antonio M wrote:
> 2009/12/18 Ed Greshko :
>   
>> Antonio M wrote:
>> 
>>> how do I add an other type of attachment?? I don't see such option,
>>> maybe too early in the morning
>>> (I have only OpenDocument text and PDF document, I want to add a
>>> MicrosoftOffice text...)
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>> AFAIK, you can't add new attachment types directly...at least not from
>> the GUI.  The actions get created when a particular attachment type is
>> first encountered and clicked on.
>>
>>
>> --
>> es
>>
>> 
>
> I guess that some lines have to be added manually to mymetypes.rdf in
> ./Thunderbird/Profiles folder, but how???
>
>   
No  I just means you either have to wait until someone sends you a
particular attachment or you can send them to yourself.  

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Re: Some Thunderbird attachments don't start application

[Antonio M]

2009/12/18 Ed Greshko :
> Antonio M wrote:
>>
>> how do I add an other type of attachment?? I don't see such option,
>> maybe too early in the morning
>> (I have only OpenDocument text and PDF document, I want to add a
>> MicrosoftOffice text...)
>>
>>
> AFAIK, you can't add new attachment types directly...at least not from
> the GUI.  The actions get created when a particular attachment type is
> first encountered and clicked on.
>
>
> --
> es
>

I guess that some lines have to be added manually to mymetypes.rdf in
./Thunderbird/Profiles folder, but how???

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Re: Some Thunderbird attachments don't start application

[Ed Greshko]

Antonio M wrote:
>
> how do I add an other type of attachment?? I don't see such option,
> maybe too early in the morning
> (I have only OpenDocument text and PDF document, I want to add a
> MicrosoftOffice text...)
>
>   
AFAIK, you can't add new attachment types directly...at least not from
the GUI.  The actions get created when a particular attachment type is
first encountered and clicked on.


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