Re: Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora.

[Chris Smart]

2009/12/20 sandeep Patel :
>
> Hi Everybody,
>  I have installed Fedora 12 x86_64.And I tried to update
> it.But I found this error:
>  Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository:
> fedora.
>

Hi Sandeep,
Do you have a connection to the Internet on that specific box? If so,
are you behind a proxy?

-c

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Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora.

[sandeep Patel]

Hi Everybody,
 I have installed Fedora 12 x86_64.And I tried to update
it.But I found this error:
 Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository:
fedora.

Then I searched the solution of this error in google.Then I modified my
fedora.repo and fedora-updates.repo file and uncommented the baseurl line
and commented the mirror list line.
But After doing this I found again same error:


Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/12/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 407 :
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/12/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository:
fedora.

Please someone help me.How to tackle from this problem.
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Re: [OT] LCD Display and earthquakes .....

[Robert G. (Doc) Savage]

On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 09:48 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> This is OT...but wonder if anyone has experienced or see this before.
> 
> My older Samsung SyncMaster 172t is hooked to a system I use mainly for
> running SlingPlayer.  Part of the upper left quadrant had what could be
> called a smear patter or smudge pattern.  It isn't from any type of burn
> in.  But looked like what you see if you run fingers around on the
> screen...only "permanent".  It had been like this for a long time.
> 
> Anyway, I didn't have the monitor turned on last night when Taiwan was
> hit by a 6.8 earthquake.  It registered a 4.3 in Taipei and other than
> drawers opening and the TV rolling away we had no damage.  But, when I
> turned the monitor on this AM the smear pattern was gone.
> 
> So, a shake-table is a good repair tool?  :-)

Useful for marguerita lovers who need to multitask...

About your monitor, I suspect what the earthquake might have done is
flex some bit of hardware just right and cause it to rub through some
micro-corrosion on an internal signal lead. You know, the same mechanism
attributed to those "reseated connector" miracle repairs? I've seen some
odd hardware behavior changes when a system is taken apart, moved, and
reassembled. You wouldn't expect it to happen, but every once in a while
it definitely DOES happen.

Buy a lottery ticket!

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Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

[Robert Nichols]

Marcel Rieux wrote:

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Marcel Rieux  wrote:

I had and still have problems with e2fsck:

e2fsck -c /dev/sdb
e2fsck 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)
e2fsck: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks...
e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdb


I did the change with fdisk:

Command (m for help): p

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 3951100   83  Linux

but 2efsck still complains.


You should be running e2fsck on the partition (/dev/sdb1), not the
entire drive (/dev/sdb).

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Re: What's that utility to monitor disk i/o again?

[Marcel Rieux]

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 7:59 PM, William Witt  wrote:
> On 12/19/2009 06:54 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Marcel Rieux  wrote:
>>>
>>> I installed it about 2 days ago but it seems the upgrade to F12
>>> destroyed the yum.log without making any back-up.
>>
>> BTW, I'm not talking about iotop.
>>
> You are probably looking for atop.

No.

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Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

[Marcel Rieux]

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Barry  wrote:

> Could this problem be related to the U3 software that comes preloaded on
> these?
>
> http://www.kingston.com/flash/dt_u3.asp

Please! The capacity problem has been settled: it's a 4 GB drive that
was in a 8GB packaging. See:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2009-December/msg01862.html

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Where is WM Player Plug-in (Omega has it)

[Marcel Rieux]

As usual playing video at the CBC/Radio-Canada is a pain. They even
succeeded at scrapping Flash video for Linux. See:
http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows

I wrote to the  of the CBC CEO to complain and he answered they lacked
budget to do things right. When I noted that The Passionate Eye
program offered some videos on its site that were available for Linux,
the said videos disappeared.

Draw your conclusions. Even MSNBC's... flash! is available for Linux!
The problem in Canda is our politicians are wimps. Most probably
Steven Harper is subsidized by Microsoft.

OTOH, Omega, when Flash-Player is installed, does a nice job of
playing Radio-Canada's videos. I can play them too, but they take a
very long time before they appear with MozPlugger. Omega uses Windows
Media Player Plug-in (in Firefox).

Will this plug-in eventually be available from Firefox or rpmfusion.
All the source I could see were rather unofficial.

You may test at:

http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/decouverte/2009-2010/archivage.asp

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Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files? -

[Mail Lists]

  Slow it down a moment - lets get some concepts clear.

   gmail does 3 things for you ..

   1) it receives your mail

   2) it send mail on your behalf


   3) it lets you store the mail it has received and read the mail
that it has received for you.


 (1) & (2) are mail server functions.

 (3) is an imap server function.

 So when you set up an local imap server - you are setting up a server
that allows you to store and read emails. This is (3).

  In thunderbird you 'add an account' and as I described in first email
- set it up for your imap server.

  Once that is done you should have 2 accounts in thunderbird - gmail
and the second one you created.

  In thunderbird you can drag or copy emails from gmail to your second
account.

  Thats it.


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Re: Daily Kernel Panics

[Bill Davidsen]

Steven Stern wrote:

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



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]

Note that in the above example of a stable system, item 3. I have had about 
equal numbers of people tell me that the vendor driver is vastly more stable 
than the built-in driver, and totally the opposite.


Oh, and some fundamentalist open source fanatics who tell me it's better to 
crash a few times a day than use a closed source driver. ;-)


The only "desktop effect" of interest to me is stability.

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Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

[Barry]

On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:58 -0500, "Gene Heskett"
 wrote:
> On Saturday 19 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 23:25 -0600, 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 thing borked is too pessimistic an analysis. There is a 4GB area on
> >the pen drive that is not partitioned nor is it formatted in any way,
> >according to fdisk. I wold just ignore the 4GB area and don;r worry
> >about it.
> >
> Huh?  In that case, why not 'd'elete that 1st 4Gb partition and make a
> new 
> one 'n' that uses all the drive?  And the 't' to set it to type 83, then 
> write that table to it with a 'w', exit fdisk, and mke2fs /dev/sdX1,
> where X 
> is the same letter used for fdisk.  Voila! 8Gb unless it truly is a
> broken 
> bit of tom-foolery.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers, Gene

Could this problem be related to the U3 software that comes preloaded on
these? 

http://www.kingston.com/flash/dt_u3.asp

I had a 8 gig sandisk cruzer that wouldn't show all the capacity, but I
don't remember if the shortage was that drastic. Sandisk offers a
removal tool that gave me back the missing space, but you need to run it
with windows and I'm not sure it would work on a different brand.  

http://www.sandisk.com/Assets/u3/launchpadremoval.exe

Barry

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Re: [OT] LCD Display and earthquakes .....

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 19 December 2009, Michael Thompson wrote:
>Yeah, it more than shakes it enough to sort out the problems. :)
>
>So before you throw any LCD away, give it a food shake.
>
What flavor?
>--
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>
>On 20 Dec 2009, at 01:48, Ed Greshko  wrote:
>> This is OT...but wonder if anyone has experienced or see this before.
>>
>> My older Samsung SyncMaster 172t is hooked to a system I use mainly
>> for
>> running SlingPlayer.  Part of the upper left quadrant had what could
>> be
>> called a smear patter or smudge pattern.  It isn't from any type of
>> burn
>> in.  But looked like what you see if you run fingers around on the
>> screen...only "permanent".  It had been like this for a long time.
>>
>> Anyway, I didn't have the monitor turned on last night when Taiwan was
>> hit by a 6.8 earthquake.  It registered a 4.3 in Taipei and other than
>> drawers opening and the TV rolling away we had no damage.  But, when I
>> turned the monitor on this AM the smear pattern was gone.
>>
>> So, a shake-table is a good repair tool?  :-)
>


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Re: [OT] LCD Display and earthquakes .....

[Michael Thompson]

Yeah, it more than shakes it enough to sort out the problems. :)

So before you throw any LCD away, give it a food shake.

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On 20 Dec 2009, at 01:48, Ed Greshko  wrote:


This is OT...but wonder if anyone has experienced or see this before.

My older Samsung SyncMaster 172t is hooked to a system I use mainly  
for
running SlingPlayer.  Part of the upper left quadrant had what could  
be
called a smear patter or smudge pattern.  It isn't from any type of  
burn

in.  But looked like what you see if you run fingers around on the
screen...only "permanent".  It had been like this for a long time.

Anyway, I didn't have the monitor turned on last night when Taiwan was
hit by a 6.8 earthquake.  It registered a 4.3 in Taipei and other than
drawers opening and the TV rolling away we had no damage.  But, when I
turned the monitor on this AM the smear pattern was gone.

So, a shake-table is a good repair tool?  :-)

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Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 19 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 23:25 -0600, 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 thing borked is too pessimistic an analysis. There is a 4GB area on
>the pen drive that is not partitioned nor is it formatted in any way,
>according to fdisk. I wold just ignore the 4GB area and don;r worry
>about it.
>
Huh?  In that case, why not 'd'elete that 1st 4Gb partition and make a new 
one 'n' that uses all the drive?  And the 't' to set it to type 83, then 
write that table to it with a 'w', exit fdisk, and mke2fs /dev/sdX1, where X 
is the same letter used for fdisk.  Voila! 8Gb unless it truly is a broken 
bit of tom-foolery.

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[OT] LCD Display and earthquakes .....

[Ed Greshko]

This is OT...but wonder if anyone has experienced or see this before.

My older Samsung SyncMaster 172t is hooked to a system I use mainly for
running SlingPlayer.  Part of the upper left quadrant had what could be
called a smear patter or smudge pattern.  It isn't from any type of burn
in.  But looked like what you see if you run fingers around on the
screen...only "permanent".  It had been like this for a long time.

Anyway, I didn't have the monitor turned on last night when Taiwan was
hit by a 6.8 earthquake.  It registered a 4.3 in Taipei and other than
drawers opening and the TV rolling away we had no damage.  But, when I
turned the monitor on this AM the smear pattern was gone.

So, a shake-table is a good repair tool?  :-)



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Re: What's that utility to monitor disk i/o again?

[William Witt]

On 12/19/2009 06:54 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote:

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Marcel Rieux  wrote:

I installed it about 2 days ago but it seems the upgrade to F12
destroyed the yum.log without making any back-up.


BTW, I'm not talking about iotop.


You are probably looking for atop.

Will

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Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

[Marcel Rieux]

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Marcel Rieux  wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage
>  wrote:
>
>> Are you quite certain yours is an 8 GB device??
>
> Arrrgh! Since you asked, I thought I'd check.. and it's indeed a 4 GB!
>
> I bought this drive at Future Shop, more commonly known as Future
> Shark. The price, $10 (CAN) seemed really unbelievable for an 8GB
> drive, mainly ~2 years ago, but it now appears inside the package was
> a 4GB drive.
>
> It's still a good price but then often acts weirdly. For some time, I
> had the capacity reading at 17 GB with also a reading of about twice
> what was written on it.
>
> I had and still have problems with e2fsck:
>
> e2fsck -c /dev/sdb
> e2fsck 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)
> e2fsck: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks...
> e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdb

I did the change with fdisk:

Command (m for help): p

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 3951100   83  Linux

but 2efsck still complains.

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Re: F12 and wi-fi dongles

[Bill Davidsen]

Alan Cox wrote:

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 ..


Alan, if even you have trouble with FC12, I think I'll hold off any more 
upgrades.

My favorite is that on a system with no sound hardware metacity crashes 
constantly.

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Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

[Bill Davidsen]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 23:25 -0600, 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   *   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.

I thing borked is too pessimistic an analysis. There is a 4GB area on
the pen ddrive that is not partitioned nor is it formatted in any way,
according to fdisk. I wold just ignore the 4GB area and don;r worry
about it. 


I don't know what you think you see here:
  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

But the total size (see first line) is 4GB, and it is all in the partition (see 
last line). I have no idea what 4GB you think you see that isn't partitioned, 
and fdisk only allows you to see the partition table, not if an area is 
"formatted in any way" since the contents of partitions or non-partition areas 
of the drive are not examined.


I like fdisk, it isn't very smart and doesn't pretend to be, what it does it 
does correctly.


Other than looking at the /var/log/messages for an HPA message, I would say this 
is a 4GB drive.


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Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files? -

[Bob Goodwin]

On 19/12/09 17:04, Mike Cloaked wrote:


So re-capping:
1) Set up local imap server - dovecot.
2) Set up email client eg Thunderbird and/or Evolution and/or kmail etc with
each email client having an account pointing to any mail servers where you
have email - one account may be gmail, another your local dovecot imap, and
you may have a yahoo account or others as well
3) Set up filter rules to copy mail from one or other of these servers to
any of the others - each "account" set up in an email client points to a
different server.

I hope this helps
   


   I found that I could set up a "movemail" account in Thunderbird. I
   made one for "b...@192.168.1.106" which should be the computer with
   the server, clicked on "get mail" but nothing showed? Perhaps I
   missed something in dovecot config.?

   Bob


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Re: Creating a local RPM repository

[Bill Davidsen]

Timothy Murphy wrote:

Aldo Foot wrote:


I use a similar approach as outlined in this link:
http://www.howtoforge.com/creating_a_local_yum_repository_centos

All you need is the distribution ISO, and the createrepo and rsync
commands. You can always experiment to get the hang of it and ask when you
get stuck. In a simple setup you don't an apache or ftp server.


I take it that this requires one to download the entire repository?
And then keep it up-to-date.
I must say that for my simple needs the NFS solution seems simpler.

You can create a repo with just the stuff from the DVD and the RPMs you download 
as upgrades. Any new upgrades will be pulled over the non-local net, but you can 
save them and update your local repo. This requires more effort that I want (did 
it for fc9 and fc10) but works fine on a technical level.


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Re: What's that utility to monitor disk i/o again?

[Marcel Rieux]

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Marcel Rieux  wrote:
> I installed it about 2 days ago but it seems the upgrade to F12
> destroyed the yum.log without making any back-up.

BTW, I'm not talking about iotop.

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Re: Booting sparkly new F12 install, error 13 from grub.

[Bill Davidsen]

Gene Heskett wrote:

On Friday 11 December 2009, Bill Davidsen wrote:

Gene Heskett wrote:


That is a thought I suppose, but between 2 different distro's?  Sounds a 
little dicey.


OTOH, that would be a nice idea as it would be the quickest, dirtiest way I 
could think of to get amanda rebuilt for 64 bit since it is always buil;t and 
installed from amanda's home dir.


Since no one has suggested a fix for the 64 bit F12 fedora being so slow, I 
have another 64 bit torrent running right now, to see if that one is 50x 
slower than this F10 32 bit install is now.


I would try the Live-CD and see how that runs, smaller download. The suggestion 
is that some part of your system hardware isn't well supported. I would try some 
non-graphic tests, I have concluded that the Open Source purity of graphics 
drivers is more important than the speed or functionality, and that I should try 
running a remote console on a machine with fast graphics before I blame anything 
else.


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What's that utility to monitor disk i/o again?

[Marcel Rieux]

I installed it about 2 days ago but it seems the upgrade to F12
destroyed the yum.log without making any back-up.

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

[Tony Nelson]

On 09-12-19 15:27:48, Globe Trotter wrote:
> --- On Fri, 12/18/09, Aldo Foot  wrote:
 ...
> > So... the tcsh rpm is installed?
> >    $ rpm -qa tcsh
> 
> tcsh-6.15-8.fc12
> 
> Yes, it is!

Possibly some of the shell scripts used by GDM (or whatever) don't 
specify the interpreter with a shebang line.  If they're written to 
assume bash and bash is the default they'll work, but not if tcsh is 
the default.  If adding a first line of "#!/bin/bash" fixes the 
problem, file a bug against the relevant package.  (Usually you can 
find the package with `rpm -qf /path/to/file`.)  Good luck.

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Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files? -

[Bob Goodwin]

On 19/12/09 17:08, Mike Cloaked wrote:



Mike Cloaked wrote:
   


This is not directly related to the dovecot imap server that you will have
set up on your own machine. You can get Thunderbird to (separately)
connect to you own imap server if you set up a "local" imap account
pointing to 127.0.0.1 and have the dovecot service running locally (i.e.
make sure that as root "dovecot service start", and "chkconfig dovecot on"
to start it at boot - and check that the service is running by "service
dovecot status")


 

Sorry there was a typo  in the above should have been "service dovecot
start" and not "dovecot service start" !!
   


The typo is no problem, I've already found service dovecto 
status/start/stop/.


This is not clear to me yet, do I need dovecot on a second computer to 
set up a "local account?" Do I need a t'bird IMAP account on each 
computer? Confusion reigns at this point but fear not I will get it 
eventually.


I am sending this from the F12 [dovecot]. Now to see if it will send. I 
collected your message so that much is working. We are having rain and 
snow in Virginia and my tiny ku band transmitter has trouble reaching 
the satellite. I'll try to send again later .


Thanks.

Bob

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Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

[Marcel Rieux]

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage
 wrote:

> Are you quite certain yours is an 8 GB device??

Arrrgh! Since you asked, I thought I'd check.. and it's indeed a 4 GB!

I bought this drive at Future Shop, more commonly known as Future
Shark. The price, $10 (CAN) seemed really unbelievable for an 8GB
drive, mainly ~2 years ago, but it now appears inside the package was
a 4GB drive.

It's still a good price but then often acts weirdly. For some time, I
had the capacity reading at 17 GB with also a reading of about twice
what was written on it.

I had and still have problems with e2fsck:

e2fsck -c /dev/sdb
e2fsck 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)
e2fsck: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks...
e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdb

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate
superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 

==

Wouldn't it be a good thing if I used fdisk to change -- what is it
called? -- the label co that everything matches?

Last word on Future Shop: BEWARE. They sell junk and crap. I once
bought 50 Mitsumi CDs from them and half of the pile ended as
coasters. Of course, I'd never buy a computer there, but it seems you
end up being ripped off even on the small stuff.

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Re: Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

[Theodore Papadopoulo]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 12:57 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: 
  
Do a cold start and repeatedly hit the del key (or whatever it shows as the 
magic key on the bottom of the screen as it completes the P.O.S.T. procedure) 
to get into the motherboards bios.  At least the del key is the trigger for 
the bios on my motherboard.  This will take you into the bios configuration 
for your motherboard.  On my box, right arrow to highlight the next to last 
entry & hit enter.  There should be an option to self-update the bios there.


Well here is the scoop. On all Dell machines you get into thee BIOS page
by hitting F2. And indeed the next to last entry in POST. But there is
no option in POST to change the BIOS. A simple method to change the BIOS
on a Dell machine was described in a previous post using the Dell repo.
Once that is installed it takes about 1 minute to change the BIOS
without rebooting the machine. Of course you have to reboot the machine
to use the new BIOS. I went from BIOS A03 to A11, but the bad news is I
still can't turn on hyper-threading which was the point of the whole
excelsior. What a bummer.

Yes the DELL bios repository for linux is clearly not up to date.
The HDR file can in theory be extracted from the exe file.
In linux, the firmwaretool has an option to extract the hdr...
Unfortunately, this does not work for me (x86_64), but you may have more 
luck.
Looking at the sources, it looks like ome way would be to use dosemu on 
the exe file.


Hope this is of some help.

Theo.

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repair a damaged vg

[Maurizio Marini]

Hi there
after:
 pvcreate /dev/sdc
  Physical volume "/dev/sdc" successfully created  


sadly i issued:
 vgextend /dev/mapper/VolGroup01 /dev/sdc
  Volume group "VolGroup01" successfully extended  

instead of doing:

 vgextend VolGroup01 /dev/sdc
  Volume group "VolGroup01" successfully extended  

then i tryied to extend lv

lvextend -l 100%VG  /dev/mapper/VolGroup01-lvol0 
  Couldn't find device with uuid 'qf0ApW-42u1-nlyq-2TTn-MIgB-3dT1-BNe3GF'.  
   
  Extending logical volume lvol0 to 329,99 GB   
   
  Cannot update volume group VolGroup01 while physical volumes are missing.

is there some angel able to save me?


Tia

Maurizio

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Re: To Timothy Murphy

[Sam Sharpe]

2009/12/19 Andras Simon :
> On 12/19/09, Tim  wrote:
>> On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 00:14 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote:
>>> All your messages at gmail end up in my spam folder with the following
>>> mention:
>>>
>>> Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of
>>> following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal
>>> information.  Learn more
>>
>> A different Tim, here, but that might be due to him posting through the
>> gmane usenet to email gateway (it gives me problems, too; different
>> problems, though).  You could have a look through the headers of one of
>> his mails, and see if there's something in there you can use to tell
>> your mail filter that those messages aren't spam.
>
> I don't think you can tweak gmail's spam filter. Not directly, anyway.
> I always check Timothy Murphy's mails that gmail labels as spam as
> "not spam", hoping to teach it that they're not.

They're not being tagged as Spam, they are being tagged as Phishing. I
didn't actually realise I was missing anything until I checked my Spam
folder in GoogleApps. I have selected from the dropdown "Report Not
Phishing" on the 15 emails I found - that probably has a better chance
of retraining Gmail than marking simply as "Not Spam".

Cheers,

Sam

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Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files? -

[Mike Cloaked]

Mike Cloaked wrote:
> 
> 
> This is not directly related to the dovecot imap server that you will have
> set up on your own machine. You can get Thunderbird to (separately)
> connect to you own imap server if you set up a "local" imap account
> pointing to 127.0.0.1 and have the dovecot service running locally (i.e.
> make sure that as root "dovecot service start", and "chkconfig dovecot on"
> to start it at boot - and check that the service is running by "service
> dovecot status")
> 
> 

Sorry there was a typo  in the above should have been "service dovecot
start" and not "dovecot service start" !!
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Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files? -

[Mike Cloaked]

Bob Goodwin-3 wrote:
> 
> 
> Ok, I've installed Dovecot, made some changes to the config. file
> and started it. Then told gmail I wanted to "enable" IMAP. Although
> I have a "wildblue" address they gave up their mail servers and
> shunted everyone over to google! Not the best deal for users perhaps
> but I had no choice. Rural users are stuck without CATV or Telco DSL
> internet service so the satellite providers have no competition.
> 
> Anyway now that I've done this the system is dumping everything it
> has on me, presently 4091 trash files! Hopefully that is all,
> probably ~7k messages in total.
> 
> I still don't understand how this works but I will in pretty short
> order I guess? Where are these messages being saved? On my F-12
> computer somewhere in Dovecot I hope.
> 
> What do I have to configure in another computer to access the IMAP
> messages? Do I simply add an IMAP user to Thunderbird, the email
> program I have been using for some time. If the messages are stored
> in my computer, other computers need to look there and connect via
> my LAN [wired and wireless]. I'm already in over my head despite
> reading a lot of instructions on how to set this up!.
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> 

When you told gmail that you want to access it via imap then you presumably
set up an imap gmail account in Thunderbird?   What this then will do is to
get the mail client (Thunderbird) to access gmail via the imap server held
at gmail.

This is not directly related to the dovecot imap server that you will have
set up on your own machine. You can get Thunderbird to (separately) connect
to you own imap server if you set up a "local" imap account pointing to
127.0.0.1 and have the dovecot service running locally (i.e. make sure that
as root "dovecot service start", and "chkconfig dovecot on" to start it at
boot - and check that the service is running by "service dovecot status")

Now when you start Thunderbird with both the gmail imap account as well as
the local imap account defined within Thunderbird then you will see two sets
of mail but at this stage the only mail that you will see populated is the
gmail account.  i.e. Thunderbird as email client, is making connections to
two independent imap servers - one at gmail and the other in your local
machine.

If you wish you can then copy mail from the gmail server to your own dovecot
server, either manually or by setting up local filter rules within
Thunderbird.  You can set rules up to make copies of all mail at gmail onto
your local imap server from within Thunderbird so that each time Thunderbird
checks for new mail at gmail it will copy to your local server.

You configure the rules in which ever way is most convenient for you. 
However once this is all done then you can start a different mail client
(such as Evolution for example) and set up a local imap account which will
then see any email that is already stored (and handled) by dovecot locally. 
You can of course also set it up to look at gmail and transfer files to the
local imap if you wish - and then run either mail client whenever you feel
like it, and use the best facilities of the one you are running at any time.

So re-capping:
1) Set up local imap server - dovecot.
2) Set up email client eg Thunderbird and/or Evolution and/or kmail etc with
each email client having an account pointing to any mail servers where you
have email - one account may be gmail, another your local dovecot imap, and
you may have a yahoo account or others as well
3) Set up filter rules to copy mail from one or other of these servers to
any of the others - each "account" set up in an email client points to a
different server.

One possible use is when your isp runs only a pop3 mail server - you can get
your Thunderbird to connect to that but then to copy mail from that server
to  your local server and then any other mail client can see the same emails
by pointing them to the local dovecot imap server.

I hope this helps


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Re: To Timothy Murphy

[Marcel Rieux]

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Marcel Rieux  wrote:
> All your messages at gmail end up in my spam folder with the following 
> mention:
>
> Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of
> following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal
> information.  Learn more

Timothy's messages do not end up in my spam box anymore. I guess he
solved the problem.

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Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 23:25 -0600, 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   *   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.
I thing borked is too pessimistic an analysis. There is a 4GB area on
the pen ddrive that is not partitioned nor is it formatted in any way,
according to fdisk. I wold just ignore the 4GB area and don;r worry
about it. 
> 
> 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.
> 
> --Doc Savage
>   Fairview Heights, IL
> 
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Re: init: illegal runlevel (null)

[Tom H]

>  here is a description of what I'm trying to do.
>
> I created a small rootfs with buildroot and I gPXE booted it. Once that is
> running I do
>
> mount -t tmpfs -o size=4G mount -t tmpfs -o size=4G none /tmp
>
> (I have a system with 8GB of RAM)
>
> and then i copy with scp a new rootfs (rootfs.img whose size is around
> 2.5GB) under /tmp
>
> At this point, this I run this simple script
>
> #!/bin/bash
> cd /tmp
> mkdir newrootfs
> mount rootfs.img newrootfs
> cd newrootfs
> mkdir oldrootfs
> pivot_root . oldrootfs
> exec chroot . sh -c 'exec /sbin/init' dev/console 2>&1
>
> I can see the new root is rootfs, but still there is something not working.
> When I run the script I get the message
>
> init: illegal runlevel (null)
>
> Any idea of what can be wrong?

The script calling "exec chroot . sh -c 'exec /sbin/init'..." has to
have pid 1 otherwise init will expect a run level.

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Re: empathy

[Eric Tanguy]

http://live.gnome.org/Empathy/FAQ#Does_Empathy_support_audio_and_video_chat.3F

Le 19/12/2009 19:21, Michael Semcheski a écrit :

Does it do any video and audio?

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Brian Pepple  wrote:
   

On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 13:49 +, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
 

Does empathy do voice and/or video yet, with yahoo messenger?
   

No, Yahoo video&  audio support is available yet.

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Re: Fedora 12 not seeing floppy disk controller [SOLVED]

[Robert Nichols]

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.


The solution turns out to be really simple.  I did not have the floppy
drive hooked up when I did the install.  As a result, anaconda did
not create the /etc/modprobe.d/floppy-pnp.conf file.  With that file
in place, F-12 sees the floppy drive just fine at boot.

$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/floppy-pnp.conf
alias pnp:dPNP0700 floppy
alias acpi:PNP0700: floppy

The final glitch I had to fix is that all Linux kernels I've tried have
problems with DMA when writing to the built-in floppy controller on my
motherboard (ASUS M4A78T-E).  The symptom is that the driver writes the
first 2 bytes and than hangs forever with the floppy motor running.
Workaround for that is to add "floppy=nodma" as a parameter to the
floppy module.  That's almost certainly non-optimal (it applies to
reading, too), but I don't use floppy disks often enough to care.  I
added a file in /etc/modprobe.d :

$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/floppy-nodma.conf
options floppy floppy=nodma

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Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files? -

[Bob Goodwin]

On 19/12/09 05:11, Bob Goodwin wrote:

On 18/12/09 20:23, Mail Lists wrote:

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)



.  snip  .


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


gene

Thanks for your suggestions. I intend to try as you have outlined
later this morning.

Much appreciated.

Bob





   Ok, I've installed Dovecot, made some changes to the config. file
   and started it. Then told gmail I wanted to "enable" IMAP. Although
   I have a "wildblue" address they gave up their mail servers and
   shunted everyone over to google! Not the best deal for users perhaps
   but I had no choice. Rural users are stuck without CATV or Telco DSL
   internet service so the satellite providers have no competition.

   Anyway now that I've done this the system is dumping everything it
   has on me, presently 4091 trash files! Hopefully that is all,
   probably ~7k messages in total.

   I still don't understand how this works but I will in pretty short
   order I guess? Where are these messages being saved? On my F-12
   computer somewhere in Dovecot I hope.

   What do I have to configure in another computer to access the IMAP
   messages? Do I simply add an IMAP user to Thunderbird, the email
   program I have been using for some time. If the messages are stored
   in my computer, other computers need to look there and connect via
   my LAN [wired and wireless]. I'm already in over my head despite
   reading a lot of instructions on how to set this up!.

   Any help is appreciated.

   Bob

   .

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Re: mplayer fc12-86_64

[david walcroft]

On 12/19/2009 11:01 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:

On Saturday 19 December 2009 04:01 AM, Erik P. Olsen wrote:

On 19/12/09 12:26, Tim wrote:

On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 11:28 +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote:

?? Isn't it just mplayer-gui that provides gmplayer?


One of them is a recompiled mplayer for its own GUI, the other is a
front end for mplayer.


OK, same name two products. Then where do I find the recompiled mplayer?



The recompiled one is the buggy one.


Yes so I found out,I discoverd smplayer and it is very stable.

david

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firefox 3.0.15-1.fc10 - can't open new window using right mouse button, ctl n, or file drop down menu "new window"

[Darlene Wallach]

A few weeks ago something happened with firefox and I can no longer
open a URL into a new window using the right mouse button, "ctl n", or
using the drop down menu under "file" to open a new window ; I can
only open a URL into a new tab or open a window into a new tab.

Should I remove firefox and reinstall or is there something I can do
to reenable the option of opening a URL into a new window?
Any tips to fix this?

Thank you.

equal justice under law,
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Re: empathy

[Suvayu Ali]

On Saturday 19 December 2009 10:21 AM, Michael Semcheski wrote:

Does it do any video and audio?



I think it does Google video/audio.
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Re: To Timothy Murphy

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 19 December 2009, Elliott Chapin wrote:
>On 12/19/2009 12:23 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Saturday 19 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 00:14 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote:
 All your messages at gmail end up in my spam folder with the following
 mention:

 Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of
 following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal
 information.  Learn more
>>>
>>> That used to happen to me. But using spamassassin I put Tim in my
>>> whiteliist and the problem disappeared.
>>
>> I too use spamassassin, but Tims msgs always get a zero score.
>> - from previous msg:
>> Return-path:
>>   X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on
>> coyote.coyote.den X-Spam-Level:
>>   X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,
>>   RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham
>> version=3.2.5
>>   X-Spam-Spammy: _SPAMMYTOKENS(2,long)
>> 
>>
>> Perhaps your ham training is out of date?  I cleaned up my inbox and used
>> that as ham training (about 5Gb of mail over many years, last did that
>> about a year ago.
>
>My son used to keep all his mail - for the sake of training material.
>But my ISP uses IronPort (excellent).
>
One of the reasons I won't touch imap in my setup.  Here, its all mine to do 
with as I see fit once it has been sucked by fetchmail, and passed the 
procmail/spamassassn gauntlet.  I rather like it that way.  That may cost me 
a false positive occasionally because I have procmail /dev/null anything with 
5 * in the X-Spam-Level header, but since I derive no income from any of it, 
that doesn't bother me a bit that I may have missed the email telling me a 
rich uncle died and left me 700 million of something. ;-)

I also train for spam daily, dropping that which isn't wanted into a spam 
folder, and a cron script then trains it that the stuff in that folder IS 
spam.  It works slowly but eventually in every case but one so far.

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I drink, I get drunk, I fall down.

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

[Globe Trotter]

--- On Fri, 12/18/09, Aldo Foot  wrote:

> From: Aldo Foot 
> Subject: Re: please help! -- F12: login disallowed upon changing shell from  
> bash to tcsh
> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." 
> 
> Date: Friday, December 18, 2009, 2:43 PM
> 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

tcsh-6.15-8.fc12

Yes, it is!

Best wishes,
T

> 


  

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Re: SELinux security alert

[Petrus de Calguarium]

I am not very knowledgeable about selinux, but I will see what I can do.

vinny wrote:

> [find has a permissive type (prelink_cron_system_t). This access was not
> denied.]
> 
The section in [] brackets says that since the command has a "permissive type", 
the 
"access was not denied"; in other words the command ran without being hindered 
by 
selinux, so you can read the security message as a warning.

> SELinux denied access requested by find. /var/lib/misc/prelink.full may
> be a
> mislabeled. /var/lib/misc/prelink.full default SELinux type is
> prelink_var_lib_t,
> but its current type is cron_var_lib_t. Changing this file back to the
> default
> type, may fix your problem.
> 
This means that /var/lib/misc/prelink.full has the wrong file context (to check 
context: ls -Z filename). Selinux should have blocked access, but the context 
is 
permissive, so it didn't (refer to the section at the very beginning in the [] 
brackets).

> You can restore the default system context to this file by executing the
> restorecon command.
> 
> /sbin/restorecon '/var/lib/misc/prelink.full'
> 
If this error message bothers you, even though selinux tells you that it didn't 
prevent the command from executing, you have the option to restore the context 
of 
the file using this command:

sudo /sbin/restorecon -v '/var/lib/misc/prelink.full'

-v means verbose, so you will see if a change was made to the context.

Sometimes files will get the wrong context each time you reboot, so you might 
have 
to keep on doing this every time you reboot, or wait for an update that fixes 
the 
default context. If you want to know which rpm package creates or supplies this 
file:

yum provides */prelink.full
or
yum provides /var/lib/misc/prelink.full

I don't know what kind of file prelink.full is, but if it comes from an 
installed 
rpm package from the fedora repositories, you could file a bug report at 
bugzilla.redhat.com. If you created the file or edited the file, then you must 
restore the context.

I hope this helps sufficiently.

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fedora 12 update error

[sandeep Patel]

hello,
 I have installed fedora 12 in my laptop.Then i tried to update but
i found error this type of error.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository:
fedora.
Please suggest me how to eliminate this problem.
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How to get fonts matching pattern?

[Colin Paul Adams]

I have a program (xshogi) which puts out a message:

No fonts match pattern -*-helvetica-medium-o-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

xlsfonts confirms no match.

How can I install fonts matching this pattern?
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SELinux security alert

[vinny]

Hello,
I installed F12 in 2 desktop no problem both working perfectly.
lately one has developed this security problem, it suggest to rename a
file as a possible cure, I do not understand how can a file change name
by it self. So before I make a mess of things I better ask for help.
Vinny 

Summary:

SELinux is preventing /bin/find "getattr" access
to /var/lib/misc/prelink.full.

Detailed Description:

[find has a permissive type (prelink_cron_system_t). This access was not
denied.]

SELinux denied access requested by find. /var/lib/misc/prelink.full may
be a
mislabeled. /var/lib/misc/prelink.full default SELinux type is
prelink_var_lib_t,
but its current type is cron_var_lib_t. Changing this file back to the
default
type, may fix your problem.

File contexts can be assigned to a file in the following ways.

  * Files created in a directory receive the file context of the parent
directory by default.
  * The SELinux policy might override the default label inherited from
the
parent directory by specifying a process running in context A which
creates
a file in a directory labeled B will instead create the file with
label C.
An example of this would be the dhcp client running with the
dhclient_t type
and creating a file in the directory /etc. This file would normally
receive
the etc_t type due to parental inheritance but instead the file is
labeled
with the net_conf_t type because the SELinux policy specifies this.
  * Users can change the file context on a file using tools such as
chcon, or
restorecon.

This file could have been mislabeled either by user error, or if an
normally
confined application was run under the wrong domain.

However, this might also indicate a bug in SELinux because the file
should not
have been labeled with this type.

If you believe this is a bug, please file a bug report against this
package.

Allowing Access:

You can restore the default system context to this file by executing the
restorecon command. restorecon '/var/lib/misc/prelink.full', if this
file is a
directory, you can recursively restore using restorecon -R
'/var/lib/misc/prelink.full'.

Fix Command:

/sbin/restorecon '/var/lib/misc/prelink.full'

Additional Information:

Source Context
system_u:system_r:prelink_cron_system_t:s0-s0:c0.c
  1023
Target Contextsystem_u:object_r:cron_var_lib_t:s0
Target Objects/var/lib/misc/prelink.full [ file ]
Sourcefind
Source Path   /bin/find
Port  
Host  localhost.localdomain
Source RPM Packages   findutils-4.4.2-4.fc12
Target RPM Packages   prelink-0.4.2-4.fc12
Policy RPMselinux-policy-3.6.32-55.fc12
Selinux Enabled   True
Policy Type   targeted
Enforcing ModeEnforcing
Plugin Name   restorecon
Host Name localhost.localdomain
Platform  Linux localhost.localdomain
  2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686.PAE #1 SMP Wed Dec
9
  11:00:30 EST 2009 i686 i686
Alert Count   4
First SeenSat 12 Dec 2009 07:32:14 AM EST
Last Seen Sat 19 Dec 2009 01:45:15 PM EST
Local ID  e5732596-f308-439c-9920-c4a394f95061
Line Numbers  

Raw Audit Messages

node=localhost.localdomain type=AVC msg=audit(1261248315.138:22): avc:
denied  { getattr } for  pid=2950 comm="find"
path="/var/lib/misc/prelink.full" dev=dm-0 ino=2402
scontext=system_u:system_r:prelink_cron_system_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
tcontext=system_u:object_r:cron_var_lib_t:s0 tclass=file

node=localhost.localdomain type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1261248315.138:22):
arch=4003 syscall=300 success=yes exit=0 a0=ff9c a1=8594704
a2=85946a4 a3=100 items=0 ppid=2949 pid=2950 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0
suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=2 comm="find"
exe="/bin/find"
subj=system_u:system_r:prelink_cron_system_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)




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Re: F12 Live CHECKSUM failing

[Todd Zullinger]

Sawrub wrote:
> I don't see that al this a problem of torrent . As mentioned earlier
> [though i'm still confused] its some issue in the signing of the
> ISO. let me give a try creating the boot-able USB under windows.

No, the problem is that your download is not complete.  You stated
earlier:

> [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

This shows that your download is not complete.  You need to fix that
and get an iso that passes the sha256sum check.

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Re: empathy

[Michael Semcheski]

Does it do any video and audio?

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Brian Pepple  wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 13:49 +, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
>> Does empathy do voice and/or video yet, with yahoo messenger?
>
> No, Yahoo video & audio support is available yet.
>
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Re: To Timothy Murphy

[Elliott Chapin]

On 12/19/2009 12:23 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:

On Saturday 19 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote:
   

On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 00:14 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote:
 

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

Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of
following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal
information.  Learn more
   

That used to happen to me. But using spamassassin I put Tim in my
whiteliist and the problem disappeared.
 

I too use spamassassin, but Tims msgs always get a zero score.
- from previous msg:
Return-path:
  X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on coyote.coyote.den
  X-Spam-Level:
  X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,
  RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham
version=3.2.5
  X-Spam-Spammy: _SPAMMYTOKENS(2,long)


Perhaps your ham training is out of date?  I cleaned up my inbox and used
that as ham training (about 5Gb of mail over many years, last did that about
a year ago.

   
My son used to keep all his mail - for the sake of training material. 
But my ISP uses IronPort (excellent).


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Re: Installing F12 on a Netbook sans Swap

[Andras Simon]

On 12/19/09, Richard Shaw  wrote:

>> The text based installer _intentionally_ does not have support for custom
>> partitioning since F12. Its in the Release notes.
>
> Well that's a pain... I guess I'll have to search for/submit a bug for
> my buttons not being visible in anaconda.

I had to use an external monitor when installing F11 on an eee pc.
Haven't tried F12 yet.

Andras

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Re: To Timothy Murphy

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

Timothy Murphy  writes:
> I suspect the reason may be that I mix up two email addresses.
> The reason I do this is that it is the only way I have found
> to get round my college department's mailman filter,
> to allow me stay in bed all day and send students problems from home.

Check your posting's headers sometime.

> X-RedHat-Spam-Score: 1.661 * (AWL,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO)

Redhat's host thinks your school's host sends a numeric string for the
HELO instead of the proper hostname when it connects.  Ideally the
hostname given with the HELO would be the same as one gets when doing a
reverse DNS for the mail's originating IP.

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Re: To Timothy Murphy

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 19 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 00:14 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote:
>> All your messages at gmail end up in my spam folder with the following
>> mention:
>>
>> Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of
>> following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal
>> information.  Learn more
>
>That used to happen to me. But using spamassassin I put Tim in my
>whiteliist and the problem disappeared.

I too use spamassassin, but Tims msgs always get a zero score.
- from previous msg:
Return-path: 
 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on coyote.coyote.den
 X-Spam-Level: 
 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,
 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham 
version=3.2.5
 X-Spam-Spammy: _SPAMMYTOKENS(2,long)


Perhaps your ham training is out of date?  I cleaned up my inbox and used 
that as ham training (about 5Gb of mail over many years, last did that about 
a year ago.

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Re: physical RAM restriction in Fedora 12 (32 bit and 64 bit)

[Roberto Ragusa]

Hiisi wrote:
> 2009/12/18 Roberto Ragusa :
>> Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>>> On 12/17/2009 12:51 PM, Mark Ryden wrote:
> <--SNIP-->
>> And the PAE kernel will be installed by default.
>> So the 32 bit Fedora could be considered without limit too.
>>
> 
> By the way, will I see any speed burst if I replace PAE kernel with
> the ordinary one (not PAE) on 32-bit F-11? My computer has only 2 GB
> of RAM.

The non-PAE version used to be preferred.
But experts say the performance impact with PAE is minor
(at the "almost unmeasurable" level) with recent versions.
There is also some small security advantage with PAE
(NX protection, IIRC).

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Re: To Timothy Murphy

[Tom H]

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

> Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of
> following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal
> information.  Learn more

I am not sure whether it is Tim Murphy or not but there is one person
whose emails would go to spam if I did not have a rule to label Fedora
mail and never send it to spam.

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Re: Yum command

[Stewart Williams]

Jim wrote:
> FC12/KDE
> 
> How would I do a yum command to enablerepo=updates-testing  to update  
> python. I did it this way but it won't work.
> 
> yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing python
> 

It should be:

yum --enablerepo=updates-testing _update_ python

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Re: F12 Live CHECKSUM failing

[Sawrub]

On 12/19/2009 09:22 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:

On Saturday 19 December 2009, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
   

On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 01:24 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
 

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.
   

Gene,

In this case a better alternative to torrent would probably be rsync,
especially since you probably have 99.99% of the right bits. The Fedora
downloads site doesn't support rsync, but lots of its mirrors do.

rsync's command line options can be a bit imposing if you haven't used
it before. From your Fedora-12-x86_64-Live directory, type and run the
following command line (this is long and may wrap, but it's all one line
including the trailing " .").

$ rsync -acvzP
rsync://rsync.gtlib.gatech.edu/fedora-enchilada/linux/releases/12/Live/x86_
64/Fedora-12-x86_64-Live.iso .

This will do a block-by-block comparison of a known good source file at
the Georgia Tech mirror against your local copy. It will replace any
local blocks that don't match those on the mirror. It should only take
rsync a very few minutes to repair your iso file.

HTH

--Doc Savage
  Fairview Heights, IL
 

Its my understanding that restarting the torrent will do the same thing,
without needed the drive space for the 2nd copy of the file.  Both use
checksums over the individual 64k block of data, with rsync copying the data
locally to the 2nd file if they match, whereas torrent will replace the
defective 64k block insitu with the net fetch if the local is bad.  I would
imagine that the rsync times could be calculated to be a very small amount
longer due to the copying involved, but OTOH, connection latencies might
swamp that out.

We have about a foot of white stuff here&  still coming down.  Here being WV,
about 100 miles north of Charleston on I-79.

   
I don't see that al this a problem of torrent . As mentioned earlier 
[though i'm still confused] its some issue in the signing of the ISO. 
let me give a try creating the boot-able USB under windows.


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Re: Installing F12 on a Netbook sans Swap

[Richard Shaw]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Suvayu Ali  wrote:
> 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.

Well that's a pain... I guess I'll have to search for/submit a bug for
my buttons not being visible in anaconda.

> 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

This doesn't seem to be my experience. After booting it looks to be a
very minimal install. No Xorg, Network Manager, or even the "man"
command as I found out trying to get "ifconfig eth0 up" to work to no
avail (it did have a good network connection but refuses to get an IP
address from my router). It did have "info" installed but no help
files for any of the commands I tried.

I'm downloading the LXDE spin now so I guess I'll live with EXT4 on my
SSD and hope it doesn't shorten the life too much.

Richard

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Re: To Timothy Murphy

[Andras Simon]

On 12/19/09, Timothy Murphy  wrote:
> Andras Simon wrote:
>
>> I don't think you can tweak gmail's spam filter. Not directly, anyway.
>> I always check Timothy Murphy's mails that gmail labels as spam as
>> "not spam", hoping to teach it that they're not. I fully expect to see
>> a change in gmail's behaviour in a few thousand years (provided, of
>> course, that TM at least keeps up his the present day rate of
>> postings).
>
> I must devise a cronjob to continue posting after my demise.

And me one that does the "not spam" checking. But in the end, we, or
rather, our cron jobs, will prevail!

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Re: Yum command

[Todd Zullinger]

Jim wrote:
> FC12/KDE
>
> How would I do a yum command to enablerepo=updates-testing  to
> update   python. I did it this way but it won't work.
>
> yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing python

You should give options (--enablerepo) _before the command (update).
The yum man page and help output say:

Usage: yum [options] COMMAND

So you want: yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update python

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Re: errors on trying to install latest nvidia driver with F12

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:02 AM, N James Bridge  wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have now succeeded in installing the nvidia driver and have used
> Richard Shaw's trick to stop nouveau loading (add rdblacklist=nouveau to
> the kernel parameters in grub.conf). The result is that the graphical
> boot (plymouth) is replaced by a plain progress bar but once that is
> finished the nvidia driver works as intended.
>
> Thanks for the various bits of advice

Another trick, if you want the graphical plymouth just add a VESA vga=
line to the kernel parameters. I use "vga=0x318" but you can manually
add "vga=ask" the first time to pick the resolution you want.

One gotcha: When you use vga=ask you do not need the "0x" on the front
but you need it when you change it in grub.conf.

Richard

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Re: Yum command

[Sawrub]

On 12/19/2009 08:51 PM, Jim wrote:

FC12/KDE

How would I do a yum command to enablerepo=updates-testing  to 
update   python. I did it this way but it won't work.


yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing python


Its working here in F11

[r...@mybox ~]# yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing python
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
google-chrome   
|  951 B 00:00
updates-testing/metalink
| 4.5 kB 00:00
updates-testing 
| 4.4 kB 00:00
updates-testing/primary_db  
| 747 kB 00:04

Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check


yum --version
3.2.24

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Re: F12 Live CHECKSUM failing

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 19 December 2009, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
>On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 01:24 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Gene,
>
>In this case a better alternative to torrent would probably be rsync,
>especially since you probably have 99.99% of the right bits. The Fedora
>downloads site doesn't support rsync, but lots of its mirrors do.
>
>rsync's command line options can be a bit imposing if you haven't used
>it before. From your Fedora-12-x86_64-Live directory, type and run the
>following command line (this is long and may wrap, but it's all one line
>including the trailing " .").
>
>$ rsync -acvzP
>rsync://rsync.gtlib.gatech.edu/fedora-enchilada/linux/releases/12/Live/x86_
>64/Fedora-12-x86_64-Live.iso .
>
>This will do a block-by-block comparison of a known good source file at
>the Georgia Tech mirror against your local copy. It will replace any
>local blocks that don't match those on the mirror. It should only take
>rsync a very few minutes to repair your iso file.
>
>HTH
>
>--Doc Savage
>  Fairview Heights, IL

Its my understanding that restarting the torrent will do the same thing, 
without needed the drive space for the 2nd copy of the file.  Both use 
checksums over the individual 64k block of data, with rsync copying the data 
locally to the 2nd file if they match, whereas torrent will replace the 
defective 64k block insitu with the net fetch if the local is bad.  I would 
imagine that the rsync times could be calculated to be a very small amount 
longer due to the copying involved, but OTOH, connection latencies might 
swamp that out.

We have about a foot of white stuff here & still coming down.  Here being WV, 
about 100 miles north of Charleston on I-79.

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Re: Repost: Unable to report Firefox pblm with abrt

[Steven Stern]

On 12/19/2009 06:56 AM, Hiisi wrote:
> 2009/12/16 Steven Stern :
>> I'm reposting this as the original report had no responses Firefox is
>> completely unstable.  The stack trace indicates that the problem is probably
>> in the flash plugin, but it's crashing on pages that, as far as I can tell,
>> have no flash content.
>>
> <--SNIP-->
>>
>> --
>>
>>  Steve
>>
> 
> I don't think that the actual problem is in Firefox itself. The first
> whom to blame are plugins. Try to start it in safe mode (firefox
> --safe-mode). Your bug report will probably be ignored if you won't
> try that.

Since the last set of updates (including an update to abrt so I can
report this), Firefox has been stable.  Now I'm frustrated because it
*won't* crash!

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Re: empathy

[Brian Pepple]

On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 13:49 +, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
> Does empathy do voice and/or video yet, with yahoo messenger? 

No, Yahoo video & audio support is available yet.

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Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

[Timothy Murphy]

Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:

>> Just a side note.
>> At least where I lives, in Asia South countries, we found some bogus
>> China made USB flash disk, which claims a certain size when being
>> plugged into the Windows the 1st time. Then when we want to re-partition
>> or trying to fill it up to its declared capacity, the ugly head arise.
>> Kingston and Sandisk are the most targeted brands for these fake.

> That's interesting. Forgeries like that are not well known here in North
> America. It could certainly be a plausible explanation for Marcel's
> trouble. Thanks for sharing this information.

Yes, I bought one on eBay a year or so ago, from Hong Kong.
It claims to be 8GB, but only has 1GB.
It was very cheap, so I didn't complain.

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Re: To Timothy Murphy

[Timothy Murphy]

Andras Simon wrote:

> I don't think you can tweak gmail's spam filter. Not directly, anyway.
> I always check Timothy Murphy's mails that gmail labels as spam as
> "not spam", hoping to teach it that they're not. I fully expect to see
> a change in gmail's behaviour in a few thousand years (provided, of
> course, that TM at least keeps up his the present day rate of
> postings).

I must devise a cronjob to continue posting after my demise.

I suspect I am being punished for criticising Them -
the powers that be in the Fedora empire.


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Re: To Timothy Murphy

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 00:14 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: 
> All your messages at gmail end up in my spam folder with the following 
> mention:
> 
> Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of
> following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal
> information.  Learn more
> 
That used to happen to me. But using spamassassin I put Tim in my
whiteliist and the problem disappeared.
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Re: Upgrading with preupgrade: flawless!

[Timothy Murphy]

Clark Martin wrote:

>> I can tell you that upgrading with preupgrade from Fedora 11 to 12 is
>> much simpler.

Is there any simple way of running preupgrade
so that it puts the new system in a different partition?
I guess I could I copy the old system to the new partition
and then run preupgrade?
But is there a better way?

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Re: To Timothy Murphy

[Timothy Murphy]

Marcel Rieux wrote:

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

Sad but perhaps ordained by a higher power ...
 
> Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of
> following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal
> information.  Learn more

I suspect the reason may be that I mix up two email addresses.
The reason I do this is that it is the only way I have found
to get round my college department's mailman filter,
to allow me stay in bed all day and send students problems from home.
[Today's: Can you find integers x,y,z > 1 such that x^x y^y = z^z?]

But I will investigate this, and see if I can improve my settings.


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Yum command

[Jim]

FC12/KDE

How would I do a yum command to enablerepo=updates-testing  to update   
python. I did it this way but it won't work.


yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing python

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Can't run Firefox after installing fedora 12

[Colin Paul Adams]

I get an error dialog:

SQLite Version Error

The application has been updated, but your version of SQLite is too
old and the application cannot run.

this happened immediately after installing F12 from the x86_64 DVD.
that was with sqlite version 3.6.17 and firefox 3.4.???

After doing a yum update I now have:

sqlite-3.2.20-1.fc12.x86_64
firefox-3.5.6-1.fc12.x86_64

the problem persists.

I see from bugzilla that this reared it's head during rawhide, but the
bug has been closed (worksforme).
Are other people getting this?
I also have a 32-bit F12 on another machine, and a 64-bit F12 on a
Macbook Air. neither of these machines has the problem (but i've
avoided doing any yum updates today just in case).

I've had to install the Google-chrome beta as a result.
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empathy

[Amadeus W.M.]

Does empathy do voice and/or video yet, with yahoo messenger? 


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Re: How to remove language packs from thunderbird

[Marc Wilson]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Paolo Galtieri  wrote:
>  I only need 2 languages, how do I remove the ones I
> don't need?

And why do you even care?

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Re: mplayer fc12-86_64

[Suvayu Ali]

On Saturday 19 December 2009 04:01 AM, Erik P. Olsen wrote:

On 19/12/09 12:26, Tim wrote:

On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 11:28 +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote:

?? Isn't it just mplayer-gui that provides gmplayer?


One of them is a recompiled mplayer for its own GUI, the other is a
front end for mplayer.


OK, same name two products. Then where do I find the recompiled mplayer?



The recompiled one is the buggy one.
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Re: To Timothy Murphy

[Suvayu Ali]

On Saturday 19 December 2009 04:11 AM, Paul Smith wrote:

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Fennix  wrote:

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

Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of
following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal
information.  Learn more


A different Tim, here, but that might be due to him posting through the
gmane usenet to email gateway (it gives me problems, too; different
problems, though).  You could have a look through the headers of one of
his mails, and see if there's something in there you can use to tell
your mail filter that those messages aren't spam.


I don't think you can tweak gmail's spam filter. Not directly, anyway.
I always check Timothy Murphy's mails that gmail labels as spam as
"not spam", hoping to teach it that they're not. I fully expect to see
a change in gmail's behaviour in a few thousand years (provided, of
course, that TM at least keeps up his the present day rate of
postings).


Hmmm, I also use gmail and all of Timothy Murphy's emails reach me.  I do
have a filter that moves all incoming fedora list mail to a fedora folder.
  I have never found any fedora list mail in my spam folder.
fennix


In my case, all Timothy Murphy's posts go to the GMail spam folder.

Paul



I use this[1] rule in Gmail to archive and direct all fedora-list 
traffic to a Fedora label within Gmail. And I rarely get any of his 
messages mislabelled as spam. It is definitely quite a bit better since 
I reported a few "this is not spam"-s.


I think you can also setup something like `from:"Timothy Murphy"' to 
direct his messages to the proper label in Gmail.


HTH

[1] (list:"fedora-list.redhat.com" OR 
list:"fedora-announce-list.redhat.com")


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Re: Slowness with ssh in F12 !!!

[Jorge Fábregas]

On Saturday 19 December 2009 07:04:12 Luc MAIGNAN wrote:
> Does anyone know why the ssh connection is so slow regard to F11 ?

Maybe the Nagios server had your previous ip (in its hosts file) and now it 
doesn't for your current ip (I'm guessing).   I think SSHD is performing a 
reverse lookup when you connect...and that may be de delay.

Try one of these:

1- Put your ip (client pc) on the server's  /etc/hosts file

2- Modify /etc/ssh/sshd_config and change:
#UseDNS yes
to
UseDNS no

then:   service sshd restart


HTH,
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Re: Repost: Unable to report Firefox pblm with abrt

[Hiisi]

2009/12/16 Steven Stern :
> I'm reposting this as the original report had no responses Firefox is
> completely unstable.  The stack trace indicates that the problem is probably
> in the flash plugin, but it's crashing on pages that, as far as I can tell,
> have no flash content.
>
<--SNIP-->
>
> --
>
>  Steve
>

I don't think that the actual problem is in Firefox itself. The first
whom to blame are plugins. Try to start it in safe mode (firefox
--safe-mode). Your bug report will probably be ignored if you won't
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Re: physical RAM restriction in Fedora 12 (32 bit and 64 bit)

[Hiisi]

2009/12/18 Roberto Ragusa :
> Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>> On 12/17/2009 12:51 PM, Mark Ryden wrote:
>
<--SNIP-->
>
> And the PAE kernel will be installed by default.
> So the 32 bit Fedora could be considered without limit too.
>
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>

By the way, will I see any speed burst if I replace PAE kernel with
the ordinary one (not PAE) on 32-bit F-11? My computer has only 2 GB
of RAM.
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Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

[Robert G. (Doc) Savage]

On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 18:57 +0800, Dedhi Sujatmiko wrote:
> Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> >
> > Are you quite certain yours is an 8 GB device??
> >
> >   
> >> Disk /dev/sdb: 4045 MB, 4045930496 bytes
> >> 120 heads, 55 sectors/track, 1197 cylinders
> >> Units = cylinders of 6600 * 512 = 3379200 bytes
> >> 
> >
> > This says it's a 4 GB device (plus or minus).
> 
> Just a side note.
> At least where I lives, in Asia South countries, we found some bogus 
> China made USB flash disk, which claims a certain size when being 
> plugged into the Windows the 1st time. Then when we want to re-partition 
> or trying to fill it up to its declared capacity, the ugly head arise. 
> Kingston and Sandisk are the most targeted brands for these fake.

Dehdi,

That's interesting. Forgeries like that are not well known here in North
America. It could certainly be a plausible explanation for Marcel's
trouble. Thanks for sharing this information.

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Re: To Timothy Murphy

[Paul Smith]

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Fennix  wrote:
>> >> All your messages at gmail end up in my spam folder with the following
>> >> mention:
>> >>
>> >> Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of
>> >> following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal
>> >> information.  Learn more
>> >
>> > A different Tim, here, but that might be due to him posting through the
>> > gmane usenet to email gateway (it gives me problems, too; different
>> > problems, though).  You could have a look through the headers of one of
>> > his mails, and see if there's something in there you can use to tell
>> > your mail filter that those messages aren't spam.
>>
>> I don't think you can tweak gmail's spam filter. Not directly, anyway.
>> I always check Timothy Murphy's mails that gmail labels as spam as
>> "not spam", hoping to teach it that they're not. I fully expect to see
>> a change in gmail's behaviour in a few thousand years (provided, of
>> course, that TM at least keeps up his the present day rate of
>> postings).
>
> Hmmm, I also use gmail and all of Timothy Murphy's emails reach me.  I do
> have a filter that moves all incoming fedora list mail to a fedora folder.
>  I have never found any fedora list mail in my spam folder.
> fennix

In my case, all Timothy Murphy's posts go to the GMail spam folder.

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Re: To Timothy Murphy

[Fennix]

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Andras Simon  wrote:

> On 12/19/09, Tim  wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 00:14 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote:
> >> All your messages at gmail end up in my spam folder with the following
> >> mention:
> >>
> >> Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of
> >> following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal
> >> information.  Learn more
> >
> > A different Tim, here, but that might be due to him posting through the
> > gmane usenet to email gateway (it gives me problems, too; different
> > problems, though).  You could have a look through the headers of one of
> > his mails, and see if there's something in there you can use to tell
> > your mail filter that those messages aren't spam.
>
> I don't think you can tweak gmail's spam filter. Not directly, anyway.
> I always check Timothy Murphy's mails that gmail labels as spam as
> "not spam", hoping to teach it that they're not. I fully expect to see
> a change in gmail's behaviour in a few thousand years (provided, of
> course, that TM at least keeps up his the present day rate of
> postings).
>
> Andras
>
>
>
Hmmm, I also use gmail and all of Timothy Murphy's emails reach me.  I do
have a filter that moves all incoming fedora list mail to a fedora folder.
 I have never found any fedora list mail in my spam folder.

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Re: mplayer fc12-86_64

[Erik P. Olsen]

On 19/12/09 12:26, Tim wrote:

On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 11:28 +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote:

?? Isn't it just mplayer-gui that provides gmplayer?


One of them is a recompiled mplayer for its own GUI, the other is a
front end for mplayer.


OK, same name two products. Then where do I find the recompiled mplayer?

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Re: mplayer fc12-86_64

[Tim]

On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 11:28 +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> ?? Isn't it just mplayer-gui that provides gmplayer?

One of them is a recompiled mplayer for its own GUI, the other is a
front end for mplayer.

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Re: Slowness with ssh in F12 !!!

[Andrew Haley]

Luc MAIGNAN wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a big problem on a production server. I use a ssh connection with 
> a nagios server to monitor external servers.
> In f11 there was no problem.
> But if F12, a ssh connection takes a lot of time.
> 
> For example :
> 
> time ssh x  'ls'
> id_rsa.pub
> 
> real0m35.633s
> user0m0.013s
> sys0m0.003s
> 
> 
> Does anyone know why the ssh connection is so slow regard to F11 ?
> 
> ANy help would be appreciated

There must be some retrying going on.

try ssh -v

Andrew.

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Re: To Timothy Murphy

[Andras Simon]

On 12/19/09, Tim  wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 00:14 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote:
>> All your messages at gmail end up in my spam folder with the following
>> mention:
>>
>> Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of
>> following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal
>> information.  Learn more
>
> A different Tim, here, but that might be due to him posting through the
> gmane usenet to email gateway (it gives me problems, too; different
> problems, though).  You could have a look through the headers of one of
> his mails, and see if there's something in there you can use to tell
> your mail filter that those messages aren't spam.

I don't think you can tweak gmail's spam filter. Not directly, anyway.
I always check Timothy Murphy's mails that gmail labels as spam as
"not spam", hoping to teach it that they're not. I fully expect to see
a change in gmail's behaviour in a few thousand years (provided, of
course, that TM at least keeps up his the present day rate of
postings).

Andras

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Slowness with ssh in F12 !!!

[Luc MAIGNAN]

Hi,

I have a big problem on a production server. I use a ssh connection with 
a nagios server to monitor external servers.

In f11 there was no problem.
But if F12, a ssh connection takes a lot of time.

For example :

time ssh x  'ls'
id_rsa.pub

real0m35.633s
user0m0.013s
sys0m0.003s


Does anyone know why the ssh connection is so slow regard to F11 ?

ANy help would be appreciated

BR

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Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

[Dedhi Sujatmiko]

Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:


Are you quite certain yours is an 8 GB device??

  

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



This says it's a 4 GB device (plus or minus).


Just a side note.
At least where I lives, in Asia South countries, we found some bogus 
China made USB flash disk, which claims a certain size when being 
plugged into the Windows the 1st time. Then when we want to re-partition 
or trying to fill it up to its declared capacity, the ugly head arise. 
Kingston and Sandisk are the most targeted brands for these fake.


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Strange behavior of thunderbird under Linux

[Luc MAIGNAN]

Hi,

I use Thunderbird 3.0 to read my emails. I have several IMAP accounts. I 
have an account at FREE.FR. I can read my mails with Thunderbird under 
Windows and Mac, but it is still empty under Linux and I can't see any 
folders.

Has anyone meet this behavior before ?

BR

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Re: mplayer fc12-86_64

[Erik P. Olsen]

On 19/12/09 03:36, david walcroft wrote:

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


?? Isn't it just mplayer-gui that provides gmplayer?

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Re: To Timothy Murphy

[Tim]

On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 00:14 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote:
> All your messages at gmail end up in my spam folder with the following 
> mention:
> 
> Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of
> following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal
> information.  Learn more

A different Tim, here, but that might be due to him posting through the
gmane usenet to email gateway (it gives me problems, too; different
problems, though).  You could have a look through the headers of one of
his mails, and see if there's something in there you can use to tell
your mail filter that those messages aren't spam.

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Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files? -

[Bob Goodwin]

On 18/12/09 20:23, Mail Lists wrote:

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

Thanks for your suggestions. I intend to try as you have outlined
later this morning.

Much appreciated.

Bob



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Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

[Tim]

On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 01:02 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote:
> Very weird: it still sees the partition as FAT32, even though I
> formatted it ext3.

When you prep a disc, you specify the partition types that you want, and
formatting tools may format the partition with the same file system
type, by default.  But you can format a partition with a different file
system type, and that won't change the description in the partition.  

Probably not a problem, but can surprise you if you reformat, and you
end up with a file system type that you didn't expect.

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F12 update problem

[RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA]

When I am trying to update, I am getting following error message:


Error Type: 
Error Value: Error getting repository data for installed, repository not
found
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3125, in

main()
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3122, in main
backend.dispatcher(sys.argv[1:])
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 710,
in dispatcher
self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:])
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 657,
in dispatch_command
self.update_packages(only_trusted, package_ids)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 1948, in
update_packages
signed = self._is_package_repo_signed(pkg)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 1437, in
_is_package_repo_signed
repo = self.yumbase.repos.getRepo(pkg.repoid)
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/repos.py, line 121, in getRepo
'Error getting repository data for $s, repository not found' $ (repoid)

How to rectify this problem? Any help on this please?

Thank you.

Kishore
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Re: Upgrading with preupgrade: flawless!

[Robert G. (Doc) Savage]

On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 22:55 -0800, Clark Martin wrote:

> 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.

Clark,

Michael Chronenworth posted a simple solution to this problem. He moved
install.img from /boot to a thumb drive. When anaconda doesn't find it
in /boot, it asks for its location. Point anaconda to the thumb drive
and your upgrade will proceed without a hitch.

HTH

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Re: F12 Live CHECKSUM failing

[Robert G. (Doc) Savage]

On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 01:24 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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.

Gene,

In this case a better alternative to torrent would probably be rsync,
especially since you probably have 99.99% of the right bits. The Fedora
downloads site doesn't support rsync, but lots of its mirrors do.

rsync's command line options can be a bit imposing if you haven't used
it before. From your Fedora-12-x86_64-Live directory, type and run the
following command line (this is long and may wrap, but it's all one line
including the trailing " .").

$ rsync -acvzP
rsync://rsync.gtlib.gatech.edu/fedora-enchilada/linux/releases/12/Live/x86_64/Fedora-12-x86_64-Live.iso
 .

This will do a block-by-block comparison of a known good source file at
the Georgia Tech mirror against your local copy. It will replace any
local blocks that don't match those on the mirror. It should only take
rsync a very few minutes to repair your iso file.

HTH

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Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

[Robert G. (Doc) Savage]

On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 01:02 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage
>  wrote:
> > 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
> 
> 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.

Marcel,

(Apologies about your name. Yes, it was late.)

Regardless of what filesystem you install in /dev/sdb1, the current
partition table in this device is coded to identify it as fat32:

> /dev/sdb1   11198 3951100b  W95 FAT32

When you repartition this device using fdisk, you'll want to change its
system id from "b W95 FAT32" to "83 Linux" with the "t" command.

Are you quite certain yours is an 8 GB device??

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

This says it's a 4 GB device (plus or minus). You now have both gparted
and fdisk in agreement on that point. This means everything else you've
seen and done is correct, and the formatted capacity of this device will
be about 3.7 GB in both fat32 and ext3. (Note that you'll want to use
the "-m 0" option with mke2fs to create an ext2 filesystem (ext3 with
"j" option) with zero space reserved for the root user.)

Get to know fdisk. Even though it's not a GUI, it's very powerful. Used
with care, like a surgeon's scalpel, it can be a very precise tool. It's
the best tool for you to use in this situation.

HTH

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