Re: yum update question

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Monday 04 January 2010 05:50:54 Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> While doing a "yum update" after an install from DVD, I noticed that I
> got the following message (this is a "write it down and then retype into
> computer that has mail" so I might have a typo:
> 
> [...]
> Installing: kernal-PAE-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686
>  W:  Possible missing firmware ql8100_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.lo
>  W:  Possible missing firmware aic94xx-seq_fw.bin for module aic94xx.lo
> [...]

Did you also get the message like:

Processing delta metadata
/boot/initramfs-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64.img: contents have been changed
delta does not match installed data

or similar, somewhere in the early stages of the update process (before the 
actual installing of .rpm's)?

If yes, then you have probably hit this bug:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544901

In short, those warnings are harmless and you are pretty safe to ignore them.

HTH, :-)
Marko


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Re: Also having NFSv4 problems

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Ed Greshko wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Ed Greshko wrote:
> >
> >
> >> http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Deployment_Guide/ch-nfs.html
> >>
> >> States
> >>
> >> |rpc.mountd| — This process receives mount requests from NFS
> >> clients and verifies the requested file system is currently
> >> exported. This process is started automatically by the |nfs|
> >> service and does not require user configuration. This is not used
> >> with NFSv4.
> >
> >   and if that's truly the case, then the NFS start script
> > /etc/init.d/nfs should not try to invoke rpc.mountd (or rpc.statd
> > for that matter) when it's obvious that you're trying to run
> > exclusively with NFSv4, no?  if that's the case, i can bugzilla
> > that as well but i want to make sure that it's really an error
> > first.
> >
> I suppose a case could be made for that either way.  Seems rather
> minor to me.
>
> I've not yet had time to look a this stuff.  However, is there any
> downside from starting rpc.mountd even if it isn't going to be used?

  i don't know.  and it's not only rpc.mountd.  as i read it,
rpc.statd *also* becomes superfluous.  and if there's no reason to run
a daemon, i see no point in running it.  why waste the cycles?

  also, the fact that you're (unnecessarily) running rpc.mountd and
rpc.statd might, in some weird way, support NFSv3 operations.  if
you're not running those, it's pretty much a *guarantee* that you're
supporting only NFSv4, no?  think of it as a sanity check.  (and
remember my earlier bit where someone claimed that you *do* need to be
running them, they just don't need to be available to the outside
world so you don't need to allow them through the firewall.)

  in any event, i just want to clarify the situation since i've seen
two apparently differing explanations.

rday

p.s.  just FYI, i didn't plan on this discussion getting quite so
animated.  :-)  i figured getting a simple NFSv4 example running on
f12 would be a piece of cake.  apparently, not quite.

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Re: Kde problems

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Sunday 03 January 2010 21:22:32 david walcroft wrote:
> I'm using fc12-86_64,my problem is when ever I logout/login or
> shut-down/reboot I lose kde,it will not start,only a blue screen.
> and no desktop.Sometimes I get the error 'cannot access
> /usr/bin/autorun: no such file or directory' so I cp -r /usr/bin/autorun
> from my backup and logout/login with no result.
> An install a while ago my sys. booted into a default desktop not my
> usual desktop,I found out that kde was not reading my ~/.kde file,I cp
> -r a copy from ~.kde.old ~.kde but on logging out/in the ~.kde file was
> over written.The only solution I've had is to reinstall the system.
> I've got no idea how to troubleshoot these problems.Help would be
> appreciated.

Ok, how about this: create a new, dummy user, and log into that account (into 
KDE, of course). Check that everything is ok, logout, log back in. Is it the 
same? Do you still see the error message?

If the dummy user works as expected, then something in your old settings in 
~/.kde.old is making KDE unhappy.

If the dummy user doesn't work, then there is some deeper problem and it needs 
troubleshooting. My idea would be to read the system and KDE log files, and 
look for errors and warnings. Or to switch to runlevel 3, do a startx, 
reproduce the error, read the output from the terminal. Or to do a strace or 
something, to see what app is trying to access /usr/bin/autorun.

Incidentally, I don't have /usr/bin/autorun on my system, and it runs KDE just 
fine.

HTH, :-)
Marko


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Re: Problems ripping DVDs I legally own to my media server

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Monday 04 January 2010 04:29:37 Thomas Cameron wrote:
> To make clear - I am only doing this with DVDs I legally own.

I always understood all this DVD ownership thing in the following way --- you 
own the disk itself (the hardware media, the cheap part), and you own the 
right to play it in your home (the expensive part). But you don't own the data 
on the disk (I guess that would be 8-digit expensive), and therefore are not 
allowed to make copies of it, even for yourself. I am not sure that this 
interpretation is correct, but you may want to reread and rethink the 
copyright clause of your DVD's and understand more precisely what exactly you 
do own and what you do not own.

That said, I perfectly understand the need to backup those DVD's. If movie 
companies would provide a service of replacing original but broken (or worn 
off) media with new ones, free of charge (or only for the cost of media), life 
would be much easier. But unfortunately, movie companies are greedy enough to 
require you to buy not only two copies of the media (cheap), but also two 
copies of the right to play it (expensive) when your media wears off. As a 
user, the only legitimate option you have is the illegal one --- to break the 
law and copy the data... :-)

> Specifically, I tried to rip Transformers 2 Revenge of the Fallen.  It
> apparently has some new copy protection scheme where it reports that it
> is 80 gigs, and every method I tried to decrypt them under Linux failed.

In principle, every movie that can be played back on a computer can be copied 
on a hard disk (think of capturing the screen on every frame). So the real 
question is --- can you *play* the damn thing in Linux? If you can do a

mplayer dvd://

and are able to watch it, then you can use mencoder to rip it. If you are not 
comfortable with command line, there are various GUI's for various encoders 
out there that can make things easier.

> I wound up having to fire up my dusty old Windows box and use Ideal DVD
> Copy to rip them successfully (http://tinyurl.com/yg8269g).

Do you want to rip the DVD or to copy it? These things are not quite the same. 

Making an exact copy of the DVD may not be so easy, if at all possible. The 
manufacturer may intentionally implement hardware errors in the media, with 
the idea to check if those errors are present during playback (thus 
determining if the copy is legal or not). Those things are not easy to 
reproduce.

OTOH, ripping is the procedure of re-recording the data that is being played. 
Provided that you are able to play the movie at all, this can always be done.

> What, if anything, are you using to make legit backups of your newer,
> copy-protected DVDs under Linux?

If I want to rip the movie, I use mencoder. And I tweak the custom detailed 
options for every particular movie in order to get the best rip.

If I want to copy the DVD, I usually use dd to create an .iso file. While the 
.iso is on the hard disk, I always loop mount it and check if the movie is 
playable from there (ie that there are no nasty copy-protection schemes 
involved). If it is, good. If it is not, I try to understand why, tweak the dd 
options a little in order to get it right, etc. If I fail or tweaking takes 
too much time, I give up and rip the movie instead.

HTH, :-)
Marko


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Re: Also having NFSv4 problems

[Ed Greshko]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Ed Greshko wrote:
>
>   
>> http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Deployment_Guide/ch-nfs.html
>>
>> States
>>
>> |rpc.mountd| — This process receives mount requests from NFS clients and
>> verifies the requested file system is currently exported. This process
>> is started automatically by the |nfs| service and does not require user
>> configuration. This is not used with NFSv4.
>> 
>
>   and if that's truly the case, then the NFS start script
> /etc/init.d/nfs should not try to invoke rpc.mountd (or rpc.statd for
> that matter) when it's obvious that you're trying to run exclusively
> with NFSv4, no?  if that's the case, i can bugzilla that as well but i
> want to make sure that it's really an error first.
>
>   
I suppose a case could be made for that either way.  Seems rather minor
to me.

I've not yet had time to look a this stuff.  However, is there any
downside from starting rpc.mountd even if it isn't going to be used?



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Re: Also having NFSv4 problems

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Ed Greshko wrote:

> http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Deployment_Guide/ch-nfs.html
>
> States
>
> |rpc.mountd| — This process receives mount requests from NFS clients and
> verifies the requested file system is currently exported. This process
> is started automatically by the |nfs| service and does not require user
> configuration. This is not used with NFSv4.

  and if that's truly the case, then the NFS start script
/etc/init.d/nfs should not try to invoke rpc.mountd (or rpc.statd for
that matter) when it's obvious that you're trying to run exclusively
with NFSv4, no?  if that's the case, i can bugzilla that as well but i
want to make sure that it's really an error first.

rday
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Re: Also having NFSv4 problems

[Robert P. J. Day]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552144

  feel free to add any further observations to that BZ.

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Re: Also having NFSv4 problems

[Ed Greshko]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
>
>   
>> On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 22:05 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
>>> ... snip ...
>>>   
 The problem appears to be on the F12 client side:

 # service nfs restart
 Shutting down NFS mountd:  [FAILED]
 Shutting down NFS daemon:  [  OK  ]
 Shutting down NFS quotas:  [  OK  ]
 Shutting down NFS services:[FAILED]
 Starting NFS services: [  OK  ]
 Starting NFS quotas:   [  OK  ]
 Starting NFS daemon:   [  OK  ]
 Starting NFS mountd: Usage: rpc.mountd [-F|--foreground] [-h|--help] 
 [-v|--version] [
 -d kind|--debug kind]
 [-o num|--descriptors num] [-f exports-file|--exports-file=file]
 [-p|--port port] [-V version|--nfs-version version]
 [-N version|--no-nfs-version version] [-n|--no-tcp]
 [-H ha-callout-prog] [-s|--state-directory-path path]
 [-g|--manage-gids] [-t num|--num-threads=num]
[FAILED]


 About four years ago I was able to set up a similar arrangement
 using nfs3 on RHEL4 and F6, but this is my first attempt with nfs4.
 I seem to be having the same problem Robert P.J. Day is having with
 rpc.mountd.
 
>>>   a private emailer tells me that what's causing the problem above is
>>> deselecting the NFSv1 line from /etc/sysconfig/nfs.  apparently, that
>>> causes the problem so you should try this:
>>>
>>> #MOUNTD_NFS_V1="no"
>>> MOUNTD_NFS_V2="no"
>>> MOUNTD_NFS_V3="no"
>>>
>>> weirdly, that fixes that last problem.  why should that be?
>>>   
>> Robert,
>>
>> Weird is right. It does fix the nfs restart problem, but not the
>> manual nfs mount problem. There's something else still lurking.
>> Thanks.
>> 
>
>   i'll start with submitting the above rpc.mountd error(?) to
> bugzilla.  it seems pretty clear that *needing* NFSv1 support simply
> to *start* rpc.mountd makes no sense.  but there's still another issue
> related to this.
>
>   as i read it, NFSv4 now incorporates the mount operation in the
> protocol, and i read that as saying that you don't even *need* a
> running rpc.mountd anymore if you restrict yourself to NFSv4.
> however, the earlier emailer wrote the following:
>
> "My understanding is that mountd, statd etc are still needed but they
> do not need to be exposed to the outside world. That is, you can limit
> all of them in /etc/hosts.allow to 127.0.0.1 and only open port 2049
> on the firewall."
>
>   so does anyone know for sure?  in any event, i'll bugzilla that
> earlier error.
>
> rday
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> 
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>
> Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry.
>
> Web page:  http://crashcourse.ca
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> 
>
>   
http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Deployment_Guide/ch-nfs.html

States

|rpc.mountd| — This process receives mount requests from NFS clients and
verifies the requested file system is currently exported. This process
is started automatically by the |nfs| service and does not require user
configuration. This is not used with NFSv4.

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Re: control-C and yum update

[Paul Allen Newell]

Chris Smart wrote:

2010/1/4 Paul Allen Newell :
  

I though "control-C" was an immediate kill of whatever was running and was
wondering why yum didn't stop when I tried to kill it.




It's an interrupt, which could be blocked or it might be on a
different queue. You should be able to background yum and kill it
straight away:

Ctrl+z
kill %1

-c

  

Chris:

Got it ... this makes sense as there are jobs I run that I have to ps 
and then kill. If yum blocks until first "y/N", it makes sense.


Thanks,
Paul


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Re: Also having NFSv4 problems

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 22:05 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> > ... snip ...
> > > The problem appears to be on the F12 client side:
> > >
> > > # service nfs restart
> > > Shutting down NFS mountd:  [FAILED]
> > > Shutting down NFS daemon:  [  OK  ]
> > > Shutting down NFS quotas:  [  OK  ]
> > > Shutting down NFS services:[FAILED]
> > > Starting NFS services: [  OK  ]
> > > Starting NFS quotas:   [  OK  ]
> > > Starting NFS daemon:   [  OK  ]
> > > Starting NFS mountd: Usage: rpc.mountd [-F|--foreground] [-h|--help] 
> > > [-v|--version] [
> > > -d kind|--debug kind]
> > > [-o num|--descriptors num] [-f exports-file|--exports-file=file]
> > > [-p|--port port] [-V version|--nfs-version version]
> > > [-N version|--no-nfs-version version] [-n|--no-tcp]
> > > [-H ha-callout-prog] [-s|--state-directory-path path]
> > > [-g|--manage-gids] [-t num|--num-threads=num]
> > >[FAILED]
> > >
> > >
> > > About four years ago I was able to set up a similar arrangement
> > > using nfs3 on RHEL4 and F6, but this is my first attempt with nfs4.
> > > I seem to be having the same problem Robert P.J. Day is having with
> > > rpc.mountd.
> >
> >   a private emailer tells me that what's causing the problem above is
> > deselecting the NFSv1 line from /etc/sysconfig/nfs.  apparently, that
> > causes the problem so you should try this:
> >
> > #MOUNTD_NFS_V1="no"
> > MOUNTD_NFS_V2="no"
> > MOUNTD_NFS_V3="no"
> >
> > weirdly, that fixes that last problem.  why should that be?
>
> Robert,
>
> Weird is right. It does fix the nfs restart problem, but not the
> manual nfs mount problem. There's something else still lurking.
> Thanks.

  i'll start with submitting the above rpc.mountd error(?) to
bugzilla.  it seems pretty clear that *needing* NFSv1 support simply
to *start* rpc.mountd makes no sense.  but there's still another issue
related to this.

  as i read it, NFSv4 now incorporates the mount operation in the
protocol, and i read that as saying that you don't even *need* a
running rpc.mountd anymore if you restrict yourself to NFSv4.
however, the earlier emailer wrote the following:

"My understanding is that mountd, statd etc are still needed but they
do not need to be exposed to the outside world. That is, you can limit
all of them in /etc/hosts.allow to 127.0.0.1 and only open port 2049
on the firewall."

  so does anyone know for sure?  in any event, i'll bugzilla that
earlier error.

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Re: control-C and yum update

[Chris Smart]

2010/1/4 Paul Allen Newell :
>
> I though "control-C" was an immediate kill of whatever was running and was
> wondering why yum didn't stop when I tried to kill it.
>

It's an interrupt, which could be blocked or it might be on a
different queue. You should be able to background yum and kill it
straight away:

Ctrl+z
kill %1

-c

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Re: Also having NFSv4 problems

[Robert G. (Doc) Savage]

On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 22:05 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> ... snip ...
> > The problem appears to be on the F12 client side:
> >
> > # service nfs restart
> > Shutting down NFS mountd:  [FAILED]
> > Shutting down NFS daemon:  [  OK  ]
> > Shutting down NFS quotas:  [  OK  ]
> > Shutting down NFS services:[FAILED]
> > Starting NFS services: [  OK  ]
> > Starting NFS quotas:   [  OK  ]
> > Starting NFS daemon:   [  OK  ]
> > Starting NFS mountd: Usage: rpc.mountd [-F|--foreground] [-h|--help] 
> > [-v|--version] [
> > -d kind|--debug kind]
> > [-o num|--descriptors num] [-f exports-file|--exports-file=file]
> > [-p|--port port] [-V version|--nfs-version version]
> > [-N version|--no-nfs-version version] [-n|--no-tcp]
> > [-H ha-callout-prog] [-s|--state-directory-path path]
> > [-g|--manage-gids] [-t num|--num-threads=num]
> >[FAILED]
> >
> >
> > About four years ago I was able to set up a similar arrangement
> > using nfs3 on RHEL4 and F6, but this is my first attempt with nfs4.
> > I seem to be having the same problem Robert P.J. Day is having with
> > rpc.mountd.
> 
>   a private emailer tells me that what's causing the problem above is
> deselecting the NFSv1 line from /etc/sysconfig/nfs.  apparently, that
> causes the problem so you should try this:
> 
> #MOUNTD_NFS_V1="no"
> MOUNTD_NFS_V2="no"
> MOUNTD_NFS_V3="no"
> 
> weirdly, that fixes that last problem.  why should that be?

Robert,

Weird is right. It does fix the nfs restart problem, but not the manual
nfs mount problem. There's something else still lurking. Thanks.

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  Fairview Heights, IL

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yum update question

[Paul Allen Newell]

While doing a "yum update" after an install from DVD, I noticed that I 
got the following message (this is a "write it down and then retype into 
computer that has mail" so I might have a typo:


[...]
   Installing: kernal-PAE-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686
W:  Possible missing firmware ql8100_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.lo
W:  Possible missing firmware aic94xx-seq_fw.bin for module aic94xx.lo
[...]

The machine is old and I am prepared to understand that it might be 
getting "too old". But I can't figure out how I am decipher this message 
into something which lets me understand what f12 thinks is missing in my 
firmware. I checked my f11 install logs on another machine and do not 
see these warnings.


IMHO, it would be nice if yum told me where to look to understand these 
messages, but MHO might be ignorant of something obvious, so I can't 
complain until I understand this warning.


Thanks in advance,
Paul

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Re: help - recovering virtual machine

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi Gene,

On Sunday 03 January 2010 08:40 PM, Mail Lists wrote:

On 01/03/2010 10:43 PM, suvayu ali wrote:


Try /etc/libvirt/qemu for the xml files.



  Holy smoke - you're right!!

  I never woulda guessed it would be in /etc ... who would have thunk!!!
Shouldn't it be in /var/lib or whatever?



Technically speaking, all settings stuff go to /etc and the xml files 
would probably be considered settings for the virtual machines.


I would suggest look into the virsh interactive command line to manage 
your virtual machines. Its way more efficient compared to the gui. To 
open one, try `virsh --connect qemu:///system'. You can see all the 
commands with `help' and more specifics about every commands with `help 
'.



  Thank you!



I found this the hard way about a week back. Hope this helps you. And 
Happy New Year to all. :)

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control-C and yum update

[Paul Allen Newell]

A quick question which is hopefully just "an education request" ...

While reinstalling f12 on a machine that I "messed up", I was following 
all my notes and directions and reached the point where the install was 
successful and it was time to update. I did a "su -l" and then typed 
"yum update". I realized I had forgotten something and immediately did a 
"control-C" in the terminal that I had executed the "yum update". To my 
surprise, it ignored it until it got to the first confirm and then 
proceeded to kill the process. No problem as the update was stopped but ...


I though "control-C" was an immediate kill of whatever was running and 
was wondering why yum didn't stop when I tried to kill it.


Am I missing something about either "control-C" or "yum update" .. or both?

Thanks in advance for any explanation as I am wondering if I really 
understand "control-C"

Paul

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Re: Problems ripping DVDs I legally own to my media server

[john wendel]

On 01/03/2010 08:29 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote:

All -

To make clear - I am only doing this with DVDs I legally own. I am not
pirating, I am just trying to get all my DVDs onto a media server I am
building instead of having them strewn all over the entertainment center.

Specifically, I tried to rip Transformers 2 Revenge of the Fallen. It
apparently has some new copy protection scheme where it reports that it
is 80 gigs, and every method I tried to decrypt them under Linux failed.

I wound up having to fire up my dusty old Windows box and use Ideal DVD
Copy to rip them successfully (http://tinyurl.com/yg8269g).

What, if anything, are you using to make legit backups of your newer,
copy-protected DVDs under Linux?



Newest thing I have is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Copied 
fine with F11 and K3B 1.0.5. I haven't seen anything about any new copy 
protection schemes.


Maybe you should post what you actually used to rip and the version numbers.

Regards,

John

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Re: Problems ripping DVDs I legally own to my media server

[Ed Greshko]

Thomas Cameron wrote:
> All -
>
> To make clear - I am only doing this with DVDs I legally own.  I am
> not pirating, I am just trying to get all my DVDs onto a media server
> I am building instead of having them strewn all over the entertainment
> center.
>
> Specifically, I tried to rip Transformers 2 Revenge of the Fallen.  It
> apparently has some new copy protection scheme where it reports that
> it is 80 gigs, and every method I tried to decrypt them under Linux
> failed.
>
> I wound up having to fire up my dusty old Windows box and use Ideal
> DVD Copy to rip them successfully (http://tinyurl.com/yg8269g).
>
> What, if anything, are you using to make legit backups of your newer,
> copy-protected DVDs under Linux?
>
Are you saying it worked with older DVDs?

Do you have libdvdcss installed?



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Re: help - recovering virtual machine

[Mail Lists]

On 01/03/2010 10:43 PM, suvayu ali wrote:
> Hi Gene,
> 

> Try /etc/libvirt/qemu for the xml files.
> 

 Holy smoke - you're right!!

 I never woulda guessed it would be in /etc ... who would have thunk!!!
Shouldn't it be in /var/lib or whatever?

 Thank you!

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Re: Kde problems

[Mail Lists]

On 01/03/2010 10:47 PM, Chris Smart wrote:
could well be it.
> 
> My understanding is that he does fresh installs and KDE works
> correctly the first time, but then dies after the first reboot. That

  I've seen that - for me was usually a graphics driver problem -
installer works great (in vesa mode) - but as soon as it boots the
'real' driver jumps in and craps out.

  I'd look in /var/log/X* and /var/log/boot and see if there's anything
of interest (using recovery or live cd or whatever).

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Problems ripping DVDs I legally own to my media server

[Thomas Cameron]

All -

To make clear - I am only doing this with DVDs I legally own.  I am not 
pirating, I am just trying to get all my DVDs onto a media server I am 
building instead of having them strewn all over the entertainment center.


Specifically, I tried to rip Transformers 2 Revenge of the Fallen.  It 
apparently has some new copy protection scheme where it reports that it 
is 80 gigs, and every method I tried to decrypt them under Linux failed.


I wound up having to fire up my dusty old Windows box and use Ideal DVD 
Copy to rip them successfully (http://tinyurl.com/yg8269g).


What, if anything, are you using to make legit backups of your newer, 
copy-protected DVDs under Linux?


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Re: Kde problems

[Chris Smart]

2010/1/4 Mail Lists :
>
>  Before changing back to ext3 and reinstalling - which looks like a shot
> in the dark to me - you may want to a boot live cd and run fsck on the
> partition.

Complete stab in the dark :-) Doing a fsck is a good idea - I was
assuming that the partition was being formatted each time Fedora was
re-installed, but if he uses a separate partition for /home, then that
could well be it.

My understanding is that he does fresh installs and KDE works
correctly the first time, but then dies after the first reboot. That
doesn't make sense, so seems like his KDE configs aren't being written
properly. I've had a similar problem with Fedora 11 and ext4.

-c

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Re: help - recovering virtual machine

[suvayu ali]

Hi Gene,

2010/1/3 Mail Lists :
> On 01/03/2010 08:10 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
>> the vm ?
>>
>> The simplest way is to regularly backup your machine definitions
>> via "virsh dumpxml name > name.xml", then you can recover the
>> machine definition via "virsh define name.xml". If you can still
>> boot f11, that would be the way to go.
>
>  I have backups of the entire disk but cannot still boot f11. Is that
> .xml file stored somewhere ?
>
>  I looked in /var/lib/libvirt/ but didnt find anything useful
>

Try /etc/libvirt/qemu for the xml files.

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Re: Kde problems

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On 01/03/2010 09:45 PM, Chris Smart wrote:

> Using ext4? If your file system's not syncing before poweroff, perhaps
> it's file system corruption. Have you tried ext3?
> 
> -c
> 

 Before changing back to ext3 and reinstalling - which looks like a shot
in the dark to me - you may want to a boot live cd and run fsck on the
partition.


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Re: Firefox KDE integration à la openSUSE

[Chris Smart]

2010/1/2 Rex Dieter :
>
> We (fedora-kde sig) would be more interested in this if there were more
> effort to push such integration to mozilla upstream.  As far as I'm aware,
> there is very little to date.  (ie, I personally wouldn't be too interested
> in trying to maintain something like this that doesn't have good/broad
> support by mozilla developers too).

FYI, although there's nothing to report yet, there is a bug track
entered upstream here:
"https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=528510";

-c

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Re: Also having NFSv4 problems

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
... snip ...
> The problem appears to be on the F12 client side:
>
> # service nfs restart
> Shutting down NFS mountd:  [FAILED]
> Shutting down NFS daemon:  [  OK  ]
> Shutting down NFS quotas:  [  OK  ]
> Shutting down NFS services:    [FAILED]
> Starting NFS services: [  OK  ]
> Starting NFS quotas:   [  OK  ]
> Starting NFS daemon:   [  OK  ]
> Starting NFS mountd: Usage: rpc.mountd [-F|--foreground] [-h|--help] 
> [-v|--version] [
> -d kind|--debug kind]
>     [-o num|--descriptors num] [-f exports-file|--exports-file=file]
>     [-p|--port port] [-V version|--nfs-version version]
>     [-N version|--no-nfs-version version] [-n|--no-tcp]
>     [-H ha-callout-prog] [-s|--state-directory-path path]
>     [-g|--manage-gids] [-t num|--num-threads=num]
>    [FAILED]
>
>
> About four years ago I was able to set up a similar arrangement
> using nfs3 on RHEL4 and F6, but this is my first attempt with nfs4.
> I seem to be having the same problem Robert P.J. Day is having with
> rpc.mountd.

  a private emailer tells me that what's causing the problem above is
deselecting the NFSv1 line from /etc/sysconfig/nfs.  apparently, that
causes the problem so you should try this:

#MOUNTD_NFS_V1="no"
MOUNTD_NFS_V2="no"
MOUNTD_NFS_V3="no"

weirdly, that fixes that last problem.  why should that be?

rday
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Re: Also having NFSv4 problems

[Robert G. (Doc) Savage]

On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 00:42 +, Amadeus W.M. wrote:

> On the client side just install and run autofs. Then, from any client 
> 
> cd /net/lion/pub 
> 
> and you're there. No need for cryptic mount commands in /etc/fstab 
> (although, of course, you can go that way too, if you want). The 
> automounter will do the work for you, on demand. 


Well, slap my momma on the a$$!! That works, but /net/lion/pub isn't
quite where I'd wanted the mount to appear.

If I put the following line in /etc/fstab:


lion:/pub   /lion   nfs4  rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr 0
0


I wonder why I can't manually mount the nfs-exported directory in /lion,
which is owned by root:root and permissions 755?? I appreciate
automount's almost magical capabilities, but I'd sure like to know why
the old fashioned way no longer works. I'm old school in stuff like
this.

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Re: Kde problems

[Chris Smart]

2010/1/4 david walcroft :
> No I don't think it's a dying disk or bad media as kde runs on a fresh
> install,my trouble starts upon a reboot.

Using ext4? If your file system's not syncing before poweroff, perhaps
it's file system corruption. Have you tried ext3?

-c

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Re: Kde problems

[david walcroft]

On 01/04/2010 09:37 AM, Chris Smart wrote:

2010/1/4 david walcroft:

Hi,
I've reposted as I need to try and get a response as it's a ridiculous
situation reinstalling because I cannot get kde to work as it should.


Dying hard drive? Bad installation media?

-c

No I don't think it's a dying disk or bad media as kde runs on a fresh 
install,my trouble starts upon a reboot.


david

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Re: random lockups when using Firefox

[Julian C. Dunn]

On 01/03/2010 04:18 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:40:32 -0500
> Julian C. Dunn wrote:
> 
 Could there be some bug with the radeon driver that is causing this?  
>>>
>>> Do you have desktop effects enabled?  
>>
>> Nope, I don't.
> 
> There are certainly radeon bugs out there. For instance:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541387
> 
> You might want to check yout /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
> file from the crash to see if there is a similar
> backtrace in there to the on in the above bugzilla.

Thanks Tom -- it seems to be the same issue.

- Julian

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Re: help - recovering virtual machine

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  While I am still unable to find the original .xml files on the backup
- I did find a log file in root/.virt-manager which has the xml
definitions from when they were created.

  Then Tom's virsh define should now work if I copy the lines from log
to a .xml file.

   Thanks for help!

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Re: Also having NFSv4 problems

[Amadeus W.M.]

On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:02:03 -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:

> I have mirrors of several repositories a 1TB hardware raid array mounted
> as /pub on a RHEL54 server. I want to locally export that to several F12
> laptops and desktop machines on a gigabit home network using nfs4. I'm
> having trouble getting F12 nfs4 clients to mount the exported directory
> on the RHEL54 server. The error I'm getting on the F12 client is:
> 
> 
> # mount -v -t nfs4 -o rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr
> lion:/pub /lion mount.nfs4: timeout set for Sun Jan  3 17:16:25
> 2010 mount.nfs4: trying text-based options
> 
'rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr,addr=192.168.1.2,clientaddr=192.168.1.7'
> mount.nfs4: mount(2): Operation not permitted mount.nfs4:
> Operation not permitted
> 
> 
> Local details:
> RHEL54 server 'lion' = 192.168.1.2
> /etc/exports = *(rw), owned by root, permissions 644 F12 laptop 'tiger'
> = 192.168.1.7
> 
> The server looks fine:
> 
> 
> # service nfs restart
> Shutting down NFS mountd:  [  OK
>  ] Shutting down NFS daemon:  [ 
> OK  ] Shutting down NFS quotas: 
> [  OK  ] Shutting down NFS services:
>[  OK  ] Starting NFS services:  
>   [  OK  ] Starting NFS quotas: 
>  [  OK  ] Starting NFS daemon:  
> [  OK  ] Starting NFS mountd:   
>[  OK  ]
> 
> 
> The problem appears to be on the F12 client side:
> 
> # service nfs restart
> Shutting down NFS mountd: 
> [FAILED] Shutting down NFS daemon:  
>[  OK  ] Shutting down NFS quotas:   
>   [  OK  ] Shutting down NFS services:  
>  [FAILED] Starting NFS services:
> [  OK  ] Starting NFS quotas:   
>[  OK  ] Starting NFS daemon:
>   [  OK  ] Starting NFS mountd: Usage:
> rpc.mountd [-F|--foreground] [-h|--help] [-v|--version] [-d
> kind|--debug kind]
> [-o num|--descriptors num] [-f
> exports-file|--exports-file=file] [-p|--port port] [-V
> version|--nfs-version version] [-N
> version|--no-nfs-version version] [-n|--no-tcp] [-H
> ha-callout-prog] [-s|--state-directory-path path]
> [-g|--manage-gids] [-t num|--num-threads=num]
>
[FAILED]
> 
> 
> About four years ago I was able to set up a similar arrangement using
> nfs3 on RHEL4 and F6, but this is my first attempt with nfs4. I seem to
> be having the same problem Robert P.J. Day is having with rpc.mountd.
> 
> --Doc Savage
>   Fairview Heights, IL.0
> 
>  
> 
>   
>   
> 
> 
> I have mirrors of several repositories a 1TB hardware raid array mounted
> as /pub on a RHEL54 server. I want to locally export that to several F12
> laptops and desktop machines on a gigabit home network using nfs4. I'm
> having trouble getting F12 nfs4 clients to mount the exported directory
> on the RHEL54 server. The error I'm getting on the F12 client is:
> 
> 
> 
> # mount -v -t nfs4 -o rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr
> lion:/pub /lion mount.nfs4: timeout set for Sun
> Jan  3 17:16:25 2010 mount.nfs4: trying
> text-based options
> 
'rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr,addr=192.168.1.2,clientaddr=192.168.1.7'
> mount.nfs4: mount(2): Operation not permitted
> mount.nfs4: Operation not permitted
> 
> 
> 
> Local details:
> RHEL54 server 'lion' = 192.168.1.2 /etc/exports = *(rw), owned by
> root, permissions 644 F12 laptop 'tiger' = 192.168.1.7
> 
> The server looks fine:
> 
> 
> 
> # service nfs restart Shutting down
> NFS
> 
mountd: 
> [  OK  ] Shutting down NFS
> 
daemon: 
> [  OK  ] Shutting down NFS
> 
quotas: 
> [  OK  ] Shutting down NFS
> 
services:   
> [  OK  ] Starting NFS
> 
services:
> [  OK  ] Starting NFS
> 
quotas:  
> [  OK  ] Starting NFS
> 
daemon:  
> [  OK  ] Starting NFS
> 
mountd:  
> [  OK  ] 
> 
> 
> The problem appears to be on the F12 client side: 
> 
> # service nfs restart Shutting down
> NFS
> 
mountd: 
> [FAILED] Shutting down NFS
> 
daemon: 
> [  OK  ] Shutting down NFS
> 
quotas:   

Re: Fedora 11 network share browsing using Natuilus with Samba - Fixed?

[Robert G. (Doc) Savage]

On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 00:04 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 22:53 -0500, KC8LDO wrote:
> > Speaking about bogus resolvers, having the ISP's mess with DNS, is
> > just the start of it. Wait until they get around to forcing people to
> > install custom TCP/IP stacks that ONLY will work on their network as a
> > means to monitor and control traffic. There is nothing the FCC has
> > done that excludes this option.
> 
> The FCC has no control whatsoever over Internet protocols, particularly
> outside the USA.

The tinfoil helmet brigade is getting restless. ;-P
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gthumb problems

[Paolo Galtieri]

I have a Nikon D70s camera.  I also have an external USB smart card reader

Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0b97:7762 O2 Micro, Inc. Oz776 SmartCard Reader

When I plug the 4GB SanDisk from my Nikon into the card reader it mounts the
disk and puts an icon on my desktop.  When I double click on the icon it
brings up a file browser.  It identifies the contents as being digital
photos and there is a button on the file browser to start the gthumb photo
import tool.  Clicking on this button does not bring up gthumb.   When I
look in my .xsession-errors file I find the following:

(nautilus:2163): Nautilus-GDU-WARNING **: unable to query info: The
specified location is not supported

handle_message(member:'NameOwnerChanged')
handle_message(member:'NameOwnerChanged')
handle_message(member:'NameOwnerChanged')
handle_message(member:'NameOwnerChanged')
D70S"; exec gthumb --import-photos: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking
for matching `"'
D70S"; exec gthumb --import-photos: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end
of file

The same problem occurs if I attach the camera directly to the PC.  The
actual mount point is

/media/NIKON D70S

Note the space between the NIKON and the D70S.  It looks like the file
browser is choking on the space since it is showing D70S" rather than "NIKON
D70S".

This all worked fine under F11.

Once the device is mounted I can run gthumb manually on the mount point to
import the files.

Paolo
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Re: Fedora 11 network share browsing using Natuilus with Samba - Fixed?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 22:53 -0500, KC8LDO wrote:
> Speaking about bogus resolvers, having the ISP's mess with DNS, is
> just the start of it. Wait until they get around to forcing people to
> install custom TCP/IP stacks that ONLY will work on their network as a
> means to monitor and control traffic. There is nothing the FCC has
> done that excludes this option.

The FCC has no control whatsoever over Internet protocols, particularly
outside the USA.

poc

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Also having NFSv4 problems

[Robert G. (Doc) Savage]

I have mirrors of several repositories a 1TB hardware raid array mounted
as /pub on a RHEL54 server. I want to locally export that to several F12
laptops and desktop machines on a gigabit home network using nfs4. I'm
having trouble getting F12 nfs4 clients to mount the exported directory
on the RHEL54 server. The error I'm getting on the F12 client is:


# mount -v -t nfs4 -o rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr lion:/pub 
/lion
mount.nfs4: timeout set for Sun Jan  3 17:16:25 2010
mount.nfs4: trying text-based options 
'rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr,addr=192.168.1.2,clientaddr=192.168.1.7'
mount.nfs4: mount(2): Operation not permitted
mount.nfs4: Operation not permitted


Local details:
RHEL54 server 'lion' = 192.168.1.2
/etc/exports = *(rw), owned by root, permissions 644
F12 laptop 'tiger' = 192.168.1.7

The server looks fine:


# service nfs restart
Shutting down NFS mountd:  [  OK  ]
Shutting down NFS daemon:  [  OK  ]
Shutting down NFS quotas:  [  OK  ]
Shutting down NFS services:[  OK  ]
Starting NFS services: [  OK  ]
Starting NFS quotas:   [  OK  ]
Starting NFS daemon:   [  OK  ]
Starting NFS mountd:   [  OK  ]


The problem appears to be on the F12 client side:

# service nfs restart
Shutting down NFS mountd:  [FAILED]
Shutting down NFS daemon:  [  OK  ]
Shutting down NFS quotas:  [  OK  ]
Shutting down NFS services:[FAILED]
Starting NFS services: [  OK  ]
Starting NFS quotas:   [  OK  ]
Starting NFS daemon:   [  OK  ]
Starting NFS mountd: Usage: rpc.mountd [-F|--foreground] [-h|--help] 
[-v|--version] [-d kind|--debug kind]
[-o num|--descriptors num] [-f exports-file|--exports-file=file]
[-p|--port port] [-V version|--nfs-version version]
[-N version|--no-nfs-version version] [-n|--no-tcp]
[-H ha-callout-prog] [-s|--state-directory-path path]
[-g|--manage-gids] [-t num|--num-threads=num]
   [FAILED]


About four years ago I was able to set up a similar arrangement using
nfs3 on RHEL4 and F6, but this is my first attempt with nfs4. I seem to
be having the same problem Robert P.J. Day is having with rpc.mountd.

--Doc Savage
  Fairview Heights, IL.0

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Re: Wrong page format Avery A4 labels. [SOLVED]

[Randy Yates]

"Erik P. Olsen"  writes:

> On 30/12/09 00:54, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
>> My environment is OpenOffice 3.1.1 on Linux, Fedora 12.
>>
>> The scenario is the following:
>>
>> 1. File -> New -> Labels
>>
>> 2. Select Brand: Avery A4
>> and Type: L7160
>> Press "New Document"
>>
>> 3. Format -> Page
>>
>> 4. As you may see the page format is set to "User" which has a geometry
>> different from "A4". If the final labels are printed with page format
>> "User" they come out wrongly. If, however, the page format is changed to
>> "A4", printing is correct.
>>
>> This happens every time I make new labels, Sometimes I forget to set the
>> page format to "A4" and consequently ruin a whole bunch of labels. I bet
>> there must be a way to change this silly default but I haven't been able
>> to find how. Maybe it's a bug. Who knows?
>>
> Just to let you all know that the problem seems to be printer
> related. On my HP LaserJet 2200 the label sheets print wrongly as
> mentioned above. But when I print using my colour printer HP
> Photosmart 8450 they print correctly.

FWIW, we've been using an HP Photosmart 8450 for about 2 months and
really like it. It works well with Fedora.
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Re: Kde problems

[Chris Smart]

2010/1/4 david walcroft :
> Hi,
> I've reposted as I need to try and get a response as it's a ridiculous
> situation reinstalling because I cannot get kde to work as it should.

Dying hard drive? Bad installation media?

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Re: Wrong page format Avery A4 labels. [SOLVED]

[Erik P. Olsen]

On 30/12/09 00:54, Erik P. Olsen wrote:

My environment is OpenOffice 3.1.1 on Linux, Fedora 12.

The scenario is the following:

1. File -> New -> Labels

2. Select Brand: Avery A4
and Type: L7160
Press "New Document"

3. Format -> Page

4. As you may see the page format is set to "User" which has a geometry
different from "A4". If the final labels are printed with page format
"User" they come out wrongly. If, however, the page format is changed to
"A4", printing is correct.

This happens every time I make new labels, Sometimes I forget to set the
page format to "A4" and consequently ruin a whole bunch of labels. I bet
there must be a way to change this silly default but I haven't been able
to find how. Maybe it's a bug. Who knows?

Just to let you all know that the problem seems to be printer related. On my HP 
LaserJet 2200 the label sheets print wrongly as mentioned above. But when I 
print using my colour printer HP Photosmart 8450 they print correctly.


Thanks to Peter Hillier-Brook who somehow forced me into trying this other 
printer.

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Re: Email Hosting Recommendations?

[Sam Sharpe]

2010/1/3 BeartoothHOS :
> On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:06:05 +, Sam Sharpe wrote:
>        []
>> If you want to pay for Support, then something like here:
>>
>>     http://www.rackspace.com/email_hosting/rackspace_email
>>
>> (Full Disclosure: I work in another division of that Company)
>
>        Do they support Alpine??

It supports POP3 and IMAP, so I can't see why not.

>        Several million people at last count (I for one) still consider
> it the only mailer worth installing. I always get rid of any others --
> especially any form of webmail, which I happen to detest with a passion.
>
>        Rackspace seems to take webmail for granted, though -- always and
> only webmail.
>
>        They do say at one point "... or any other POP/IMAP client." But
> it doesn't sound very convincing in context.

Considering that one of Mailtrust's (the Rackspace Division that does
this) employees is the lead developer of Dovecot, I would expect it to
work.
http://www.rackspace.com/email_hosting/blog/2009/02/creator_of_dovecot_joins_mailt/

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Re: Need usb troubleshoting tool

[g]

Gene Heskett wrote:

> Attached.

well, it was really for you to see. anyway, a file of name '*.cgi' is for
use in a web browser, and not a true command line executable. even tho it
was found by 'locate stat|grep bin/'.

my bad for not explaining it "mo' betta" than,

>> you do not run a '.cgi' from a shell. run "man 8 upsstats.cgi" to see what
>> it is for.

'man' should have explained it for you. i do not have this man page so i can
not run it to see what it says. :(

> All from tarballs since the rpms are too old to deal with this 2+ year old
> ups, with paths corrected well enough it now runs, except for a fail report
> from upsdrvctl when starting the init.d/ups script, which works, but reports
> a FAIL.  And it was configured with all optional pieces, built and installed.

even with ups being 2+ years old, you should be able to pull what you need
and use it in a current version. or is this what you did? not sure from above.

primarily what you would need is the communications that are used to receive
and send to ups, so they should work.


also, please excuse my delay in replying. i have been cleaning up and rebuild
my archive drive so i can get things restored.

what is taken so long is that i made changes to how i do archiving, and i am
trying to clean up duped files and directories that have been moved around
and even renamed. i need a good dupe file finder.


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Re: Nut 0 vs F10 winner

[g]

Gene Heskett wrote:

>> this is fun of working to different threads of near same topic from same
>> person.
>>
> Sorry about that, if you were handy I'd buy you a beer & see if we can get 
> confused together. :)

scotch and water, or an aggravation. [that is an actual drink]

>> what is more fun is similar topics from 2 different people. ;)
>>
> Now that I think begins to have the flavor of a bug.

not always. sometimes it is 2 people going about the same wrong way. :)


> I did find a gui that sorta works, knutclient-0.9.5.tar.gz.  Its not 100% but 
> well enough to see if everything is healthy.

you should have them in repo. what i pulled to get file list is for f-12,
but it should be in f-10 and f-11.

btw, what version are you using?


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Re: Email Hosting Recommendations?

[BeartoothHOS]

On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:06:05 +, Sam Sharpe wrote:
[]
> If you want to pay for Support, then something like here:
> 
> http://www.rackspace.com/email_hosting/rackspace_email
> 
> (Full Disclosure: I work in another division of that Company)


Do they support Alpine?? 

Several million people at last count (I for one) still consider 
it the only mailer worth installing. I always get rid of any others -- 
especially any form of webmail, which I happen to detest with a passion. 

Rackspace seems to take webmail for granted, though -- always and 
only webmail. 

They do say at one point "... or any other POP/IMAP client." But 
it doesn't sound very convincing in context.

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Re: Changing GNOME "default" directories

[Alessandro Boggiano]

>
> change /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf to enabled=False
> Then I deleted the Videos, Pictures, Music, Documents, Public, etc,
> which I do not want in the first place.

Thanks Henk,
but this is not what I want! I'd like to have them, but with the right values!
Maybe, I could disable, delete them, and using bookmarks, but it's
like a workaround!

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Kde problems

[david walcroft]

Hi,
I've reposted as I need to try and get a response as it's a ridiculous
situation reinstalling because I cannot get kde to work as it should.

I'm using fc12-86_64,my problem is when ever I logout/login or 
shut-down/reboot I lose kde,it will not start,only a blue screen.
and no desktop.Sometimes I get the error 'cannot access 
/usr/bin/autorun: no such file or directory' so I cp -r /usr/bin/autorun 
from my backup and logout/login with no result.
An install a while ago my sys. booted into a default desktop not my 
usual desktop,I found out that kde was not reading my ~/.kde file,I cp 
-r a copy from ~.kde.old ~.kde but on logging out/in the ~.kde file was 
over written.The only solution I've had is to reinstall the system.
I've got no idea how to troubleshoot these problems.Help would be 
appreciated.


david

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Re: Changing GNOME "default" directories

[Alessandro Boggiano]

>> Yes, I tried! But I can't find anything in it!
>>
> Just blame this on my age. I thought I understood what you wanted to do
> in your original post. Now I am clueless.
> What do you mean by the position of the Gnome default directories?
ate/MailingListGuidelines

Blame on your age, but on my English as well! ;)

I'd like to change the destination of the default GNOME directories :
the directories like "Videos","Music"," Documents".. ( I'm using GNOME
in Italian, so
the original name, maybe, are a little different).
Usually their definition is in the file ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs, and
the file is there!
Here a couple of lines:
[snip]
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Scrivania"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Musica"
[snip]

But if I change the values, for example:
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="/Dati/Mp3"

The change is not detected, even after a logout.

Maybe I could use sym links, but,IMHO, is not the "clean" answer!

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Re: random lockups when using Firefox

[Tom Horsley]

On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:40:32 -0500
Julian C. Dunn wrote:

> >> Could there be some bug with the radeon driver that is causing this?  
> > 
> > Do you have desktop effects enabled?  
> 
> Nope, I don't.

There are certainly radeon bugs out there. For instance:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541387

You might want to check yout /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
file from the crash to see if there is a similar
backtrace in there to the on in the above bugzilla.

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Enna media center on Fedora?

[Valent Turkovic]

Media Center support for Fedora is currently really lacking when
compared to Ubuntu, so when I saw announcement of new Media Center
called Enna based on Mplayer I hope that it comes to a Fedora
repository near me ;)

Read more about it here:
http://gxben.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/first-public-enna-0-4-0-release/
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nzg1NA

ps. I would love to also see XBMC in Fedora repositories...

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KDE 4.3.4 global keyboard shortcuts not saving

[slamp slamp]

I changed the Show Menu for the Plasma Workspace to META-W and it only
works during the session but when I logout and login, my changes does
not save.

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Re: graphical login screen

[Mail Lists]

On 01/03/2010 02:49 PM, Ralph Blach wrote:
> On Fedora 12, my machine is running to init 5, and comes up to a
> graphical login screen,  How do I change the users showed on the screen,
> I see users, but no root,
> 
> I would only like to see only the user which I specify, and of course root.
> 
> 
 I believe you can have them all on or turn them all off (except
'other') but cannot just show one user.

 As for root - I'll let others answer - see past long threads - it was
turned off intentionally but there is a way to allow root to
gracphically login if you really want it. (Tho why you'd ever need this
is beyond me. I've used linux for many many years, and never once needed
a graphical root login.

 If you want the control you seek - you may want to try kdm instead of
gdm. You can still use gnome desktop with kdm.


  I am not recommending this one way or another - I am an ex kde user.
kde  was so wonderfully configurable ... but somehow they shot
themselves in the foot and lost a huge number of users alng the way and
seem to be struggling to regain their user base.  Even Linus himself
switched to Gnome .. after criticizing gnome for its lack of
configurabilty for a few years ..
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9126619/Q_A_Linux_founder_Linus_Torvalds_talks_about_open_source_identity?taxonomyName=Software

 Good luck ..

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Re: graphical login screen

[Tony Nelson]

On 10-01-03 14:49:14, Ralph Blach wrote:
> On Fedora 12, my machine is running to init 5, and comes up to a 
> graphical login screen,  How do I change the users showed on the
> screen, I see users, but no root,
> 
> I would only like to see only the user which I specify, and of course
> root.

It would be foolish to log in graphically as root.  Don't do it.  Log 
in in text mode as root by switching to a different Virtual Terminal 
with Ctrl-Shift-F2 (F1 to F6, F7 or sometimes F1 is the X session).  
>From a graphical login, either use the normal graphical tools and 
authenticate from time to time, or open a terminal and `su -` to become 
root there.

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graphical login screen

[Ralph Blach]

On Fedora 12, my machine is running to init 5, and comes up to a 
graphical login screen,  How do I change the users showed on the screen,

I see users, but no root,

I would only like to see only the user which I specify, and of course root.

Thanks

Chip

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Re: random lockups when using Firefox

[Julian C. Dunn]

On 01/03/2010 12:41 AM, Hiisi wrote:

> 2010/1/3 Julian C. Dunn :
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a F12 box that periodically locks up solid when visiting certain
>> Flash-based sites in Firefox. There are usually no odd messages found in
>> /var/log/messages to indicate what went wrong, except a couple of days
>> ago, after a crash, I found this:
>>
>> Dec 29 13:01:50 jupiter kernel: [drm:radeon_fence_wait] *ERROR*
> <--SNIP-->
>>
>> Could there be some bug with the radeon driver that is causing this?
> 
> Do you have desktop effects enabled?

Nope, I don't.

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wine dxdiag - shows nothing

[AlannY]

Hi there.

Recently, I've used Gentoo and runs Wine for games on it. But now, I switched 
to Fedora 12 x86_64.

I've installed wine successfuly:

%# yum instal wine.i686

After that, I've installed directx9 and gecko with winetricks script.

Set up wine is OK:

%# winecfg

Some win-programs already works.

Then, I need to test graphics:

%# wine dxdiag

But, this command shows nothing. Exit code ($?) is 0 (which means everything 
ok).

What to do? I cannot play games with wine-directx on Fedora, but can on Gentoo.
I've fell in love with Fedora and don't want to switch back.

P.S. Are you playing win-games in Fedora?

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Re: any fundamental difference between fedora and suse NFSv4?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Ed Greshko wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   i'm currently reviewing a doc on suse linux enterprise 11, the
> > section on NFS, but i don't have a SLES 11 machine in front of me.
> > could anyone who uses both SLES 11 and fedora 12 comment on how
> > indistinguishable the NFS setups are across those two distros?
> >
> >   so far, i haven't seen a lot that's massively incompatible, and
> > i wouldn't expect to.  obviously, the fundamental files are going
> > to be the same.

... snip ...

> Should I get the chance to experiment with NFSv4 on it I will.
> Probably try to export and mount file systems from/to a F12 system.
> Sounds like a nice challenge.

  ok, a few questions/observations regarding nfsv4, if i might.  as i
mentioned in an earlier post, i'm working off of this:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Deployment_Guide/ch-nfs.html

and seeing what it would take to set up a simple NFS configuration on
fedora 12 that uses *nothing* but nfsv4.  so feel free to comment on
the following suppositions:

* NFSv4 appears to be a stable technology that should work.  (there is
an NFS 4.1 that is labelled as experimental, but am i correct in
assuming that NFSv4 is supposed to work properly?)

* i did notice that mounting via NFSv4 requires the "-t nfs4" mount
option, not just "-t nfs".  is that actually a *requirement*?  is the
mount command not smart enough to figure that out?

* as i read it, nfsv4 no longer requires portmapper, rpc.mountd,
rpc.lockd or rpc.statd, which inspires the question -- if you're
running *exclusively* NFSv4, is there any reason to even *start* those
last three daemons?

  i ask since i'm looking at the startup script /etc/init.d/nfs, and
the "start" argument is processed thusly:

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
  start)

# Check that networking is up.
[ "${NETWORKING}" != "yes" ] && exit 6

[ -x /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd ] || exit 5
[ -x /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd ] || exit 5
[ -x /usr/sbin/exportfs ] || exit 5
... snip ...

  the problem, of course, is that if you're running exclusively NFSv4,
what's the point of checking for the existence of /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd
if you have no need to run it?   and that same startup sequence
invokes rpc.mountd later, again unnecessarily.


 and as i mentioned in an earlier
posting, if i make this change to /etc/sysconfig/nfs:

MOUNTD_NFS_V1="no"
MOUNTD_NFS_V2="no"
MOUNTD_NFS_V3="no"

then when i run "service nfs restart", i get:

# service nfs restart
Shutting down NFS mountd:  [  OK  ]
Shutting down NFS daemon:  [  OK  ]
Shutting down NFS quotas:  [  OK  ]
Shutting down NFS services:[  OK  ]
Starting NFS services: [  OK  ]
Starting NFS quotas:   [  OK  ]
Starting NFS daemon:   [  OK  ]
Starting NFS mountd: Usage: rpc.mountd [-F|--foreground] [-h|--help]
[-v|--version] [-d kind|--debug kind]
[-o num|--descriptors num] [-f exports-file|--exports-file=file]
[-p|--port port] [-V version|--nfs-version version]
[-N version|--no-nfs-version version] [-n|--no-tcp]
[-H ha-callout-prog] [-s|--state-directory-path path]
[-g|--manage-gids] [-t num|--num-threads=num]
   [FAILED]
#

  debugging the call to start rpc.mountd shows it being invoked with
the following args:

--no-nfs-version 1 --no-nfs-version 2 --no-nfs-version 3

which i would have *thought* is what i wanted to see.  apparently not.

  in conclusion, what capability *should* i expect from NFSv4 on
fedora 12?  can't i even *start* it without supporting earlier
versions?

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Re: Fedora 12 Second Monitor issue

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 01/03/2010 10:46 AM, John Clark wrote:
Hey everyone, I may just not be  seeing this topic and if so I am 
sorry. I just started running Fedora 12 with two monitors. The main 
display is fine, but my second display will not give me more than 
800X600 resolution. It is a HP vs19 LCD, and I know it is capable of 
more. Is there any solution to this? 


similar to my bug report:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551920


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Re: how can I capture my desktop (video)??

[Martin Airs]

On 01/03/2010 09:13 AM, Felix Schwarz wrote:
> 
> Am 03.01.2010 09:15, schrieb Adel ESSAFI:
>> I want to make capture for my desktop.
> 
> What about istanbul? (install from updates-testing, stable version is
> unusable due to bug 543278)
> 
> fs
> 
I personaly use ffmpeg, heres the command i use...

ffmpeg -f x11grab -s 1280x1024 -r 15 -b 5000k -i :0.0 -s 480x360 -r 15
-b 500k out.flv

-s 1280x1024 is my desktop size

-r 15 is 15 fps

-b 5000k is the input quality, i use a nice high number for good quality

-s 480x360 is the final size of the output video

the second -r 15 is the final fps of the output video

the second -b 500k is the output quality, this saves me converting it
later, you could just use...

ffmpeg -f x11grab -s 1280x1024 -r 15 -b 5000k -i :0.0 out.flv

but the output would be huge but really good quality, so you could then
resize it with...

ffmpeg -i out.flv -s 480x360 -r15 -b 500k resized.flv

the top example does both these in 1 command

i use .flv as the output so i can put it my website, you can just change
out.flv to out.mpg or out.ogv or out.avi and ffmpeg will automatically
encode it in that format

Martin



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Re: help - recovering virtual machine

[Mail Lists]

On 01/03/2010 10:50 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:29:14 -0500
> Mail Lists wrote:
> 
>>   I have backups of the entire disk but cannot still boot f11. Is that
>> .xml file stored somewhere ?
> 
> Libvirt itself stashes all its info in some random place, God knows
> where :-). 

  Was hoping someone aside from him/her might know!! I suspect its
buried in the registry somewhere.

>>
If you really have an complete disk image of f11, you might
> be able to chroot to it, start libvirtd, and do the dumpxml command
> that way :-).

 I dont have a disk image - i have rdiff-backup's.

> 
> If your runs of the XP image with the qemu command line work with
> no activation problems, you can probably tweak the new machine
> definition xml to match the qemu command line, since basically all
> the xml does is define the things it will pass to qemu (you just
> have to guess how to translate things :-). More or less complete
> docs for the xml appear at libvirt.org.

  Ug.
> 

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Re: Fedora 11/12 kernels as xen domU

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 10:19:40AM +1100, Norman Gaywood wrote:
> Is anyone having any stability with the fedora kernels running as a Xen
> DomU. Dom0 is a Centos 5.4 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5xen kernel.
> 
> These fedora kernels seem to lockup (processes get stuck in D state)
> whenever put under any load:
> 
> kernel-2.6.30.10-105.fc11.x86_64
> kernel-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64
> kernel-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64
> 
> Yes, I tried a fedora 11 kernel on a fedora 12 system. This is the most
> stable for me.
> 
> Here are some bugzilla entries (one posted by me) that point to this
> problem:
> 
> kernel 2.6.31 processes lock up in D state
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=550724
> 
> FC12 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64 hangs under heavy disk I/O
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551552
> 

I know Jeremy is away on vacation atm, but hopefully he can comment
about these when he gets back. 

Jeremy: Have you seen this kind of domU problem reports earlier ?

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Re: any fundamental difference between fedora and suse NFSv4?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Ed Greshko wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   i'm currently reviewing a doc on suse linux enterprise 11, the
> > section on NFS, but i don't have a SLES 11 machine in front of me.
> > could anyone who uses both SLES 11 and fedora 12 comment on how
> > indistinguishable the NFS setups are across those two distros?
> >
> >   so far, i haven't seen a lot that's massively incompatible, and i
> > wouldn't expect to.  obviously, the fundamental files are going to be
> > the same.
> >
> I haven't use suse in quite some time.  Are you asking about SLES
> (which is the equivalent of RHEL) or openSUSE which is more akin to
> Fedora, AFAIK?

  technically, SLES 11, but i have to imagine that there's not going
to be a lot of difference between the two in terms of NFS.

> Should I get the chance to experiment with NFSv4 on it I will.
> Probably try to export and mount file systems from/to a F12 system.
> Sounds like a nice challenge.

  i'm currently digging through the docs and scripts, and my current
challenge is to see what it takes to set up simple NFS on f12 using
*only* nfsv4 with no earlier version compatibility.  so far, still a
bug or two in the system.

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Re: help - recovering virtual machine

[Tom Horsley]

On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:29:14 -0500
Mail Lists wrote:

>   I have backups of the entire disk but cannot still boot f11. Is that
> .xml file stored somewhere ?

Libvirt itself stashes all its info in some random place, God knows
where :-). If you really have an complete disk image of f11, you might
be able to chroot to it, start libvirtd, and do the dumpxml command
that way :-).

If your runs of the XP image with the qemu command line work with
no activation problems, you can probably tweak the new machine
definition xml to match the qemu command line, since basically all
the xml does is define the things it will pass to qemu (you just
have to guess how to translate things :-). More or less complete
docs for the xml appear at libvirt.org.

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Fedora 12 Second Monitor issue

[John Clark]

Hey everyone, I may just not be  seeing this topic and if so I am sorry. I
just started running Fedora 12 with two monitors. The main display is fine,
but my second display will not give me more than 800X600 resolution. It is a
HP vs19 LCD, and I know it is capable of more. Is there any solution to
this?
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Re: Sansa mp3 player support

[Robert Moskowitz]

Got it working!!!

There was a dialog about what to open for the device behind all my other 
open apps.  So I just selected Nautilus.


On 01/03/2010 10:27 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I have a Sansa Connect player that has a number of the setup functions 
disabled (for example the wifi is turned off).  I cannot get it into 
the mode where it appears as a USB drive to non-M$ systems that have 
itunes installed on it.


I just installed FC12 on this notebook.  When I plug the Sansa player 
in, it displays messages about geting Ablum and song info and then 
comes up in its regular Music Library.  On my FC12 system, I cannot 
find any mounted device (like in /media) and RythmBox (which was 
running at the time) does not show any of the songs on the player.


help?




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Re: help - recovering virtual machine

[Mail Lists]

On 01/03/2010 08:10 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> the vm ?
> 
> The simplest way is to regularly backup your machine definitions
> via "virsh dumpxml name > name.xml", then you can recover the
> machine definition via "virsh define name.xml". If you can still
> boot f11, that would be the way to go.

  I have backups of the entire disk but cannot still boot f11. Is that
.xml file stored somewhere ?

 I looked in /var/lib/libvirt/ but didnt find anything useful

> 
> The error-prone, will probably force you to re-activate windows, way
> is to define a new virtual machine with virt-manager, and when
> it gets to the disk image part, say "use existing", then "browse local",
> then point it at your existing image file. When it boots from
> the iso image, use "force off", then you should be able to boot
> from the disk image and maybe it will be back.
> 

 Yeh ok .. thanks for your help

 gene

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Sansa mp3 player support

[Robert Moskowitz]

I have a Sansa Connect player that has a number of the setup functions 
disabled (for example the wifi is turned off).  I cannot get it into the 
mode where it appears as a USB drive to non-M$ systems that have itunes 
installed on it.


I just installed FC12 on this notebook.  When I plug the Sansa player 
in, it displays messages about geting Ablum and song info and then comes 
up in its regular Music Library.  On my FC12 system, I cannot find any 
mounted device (like in /media) and RythmBox (which was running at the 
time) does not show any of the songs on the player.


help?


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Re: Calendar with recurring tasks?

[Amadeus W.M.]

On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:08:52 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:


> I have been using the "remind" program for years. It takes input in text
> files and can generate task lists, text calendars for email, or HTML
> calendars to your web size. It handles things like "first tuesday after
> the first monday", the bizarre rules about when US holidays have been
> moved to make three day weekend and remove historical significance, and
> the like.
> 
> Also does differences, so you can print not only the birthday of kids
> but their age this year, anniversaries, last friday in the quarter,
> Easter, whatever. And you can generate documentation or actually execute
> programs, which is also handy.
> 

Very nice indeed. 

Also dayplanner may be worth a try. Not as sophisticated as remind (can't 
skip over holidays, doesn't seem to be able to take an action upon an 
event, etc.) but runs as a daemon, so it reduces desktop clutter.


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Re: any fundamental difference between fedora and suse NFSv4?

[Ed Greshko]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   i'm currently reviewing a doc on suse linux enterprise 11, the
> section on NFS, but i don't have a SLES 11 machine in front of me.
> could anyone who uses both SLES 11 and fedora 12 comment on how
> indistinguishable the NFS setups are across those two distros?
>
>   so far, i haven't seen a lot that's massively incompatible, and i
> wouldn't expect to.  obviously, the fundamental files are going to be
> the same.
>   
I haven't use suse in quite some time.  Are you asking about SLES (which
is the equivalent of RHEL) or openSUSE which is more akin to Fedora,
AFAIK? 

In any event, if I were doing what I think you're doing I would download
either the openSUSE DVD or the openSUSE live CD's and try it myself in a
Virtual Machine.  I mean, who better to know what exact comparisons I'm
looking for?

As I said, I've not used suse in quite a while.  But, your question as
well as the post about firefox/kde integration has prompted me to start
downloading the DVD to give it a try.  I think it is safe to say that
Fedora/RH place less emphasis on KDE than suse does.  So, being a KDE
leaning person it would be worth the time to check it out.

Of course, just like trying any other distro there will be differences. 
I believe suse uses yast as their package manger.  But, at least it is
rpm based and I'm used to the warts of that system. 

Should I get the chance to experiment with NFSv4 on it I will.  Probably
try to export and mount file systems from/to a F12 system.  Sounds like
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Re: help - recovering virtual machine

[Tom Horsley]

On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:33:40 -0500
Mail Llists wrote:

>   What do I need to do/recover from backups - so that virt-manager sees
> the vm ?

The simplest way is to regularly backup your machine definitions
via "virsh dumpxml name > name.xml", then you can recover the
machine definition via "virsh define name.xml". If you can still
boot f11, that would be the way to go.

The error-prone, will probably force you to re-activate windows, way
is to define a new virtual machine with virt-manager, and when
it gets to the disk image part, say "use existing", then "browse local",
then point it at your existing image file. When it boots from
the iso image, use "force off", then you should be able to boot
from the disk image and maybe it will be back.

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running *only* NFSv4 on f12 produces rpc.mountd error

[Robert P. J. Day]

  i'm currently still messing with various bits of NFS on f12, and
i wanted to see if i could properly run *only* NFSv4 (that is, no
support for any earlier version of NFS), so some questions.

  first, is there a short way to examine what versions are supported
by a running nfsd?  i'm *guessing* that i can see that via "rpcinfo
-p":

...
132   tcp   2049  nfs
133   tcp   2049  nfs
134   tcp   2049  nfs
132   udp   2049  nfs
133   udp   2049  nfs
134   udp   2049  nfs
...

  is that what i'm being shown above?  that i currently have support
for versions 2, 3 and 4?is there no simpler way to query a running
nfsd for that info?

  but here's where it gets trickier.  from here (which i assume is
relevant):

http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Deployment_Guide/ch-nfs.html

i'm told that, under NFSv4, there is no need for any of rpc.mountd,
rpc.lockd or rpc.statd (as i read it, all this functionality has been
moved into the kernel with NFSv4).

  so i can see how to disable support for all earlier versions of nfs
in /etc/sysconfig/nfs:

#
# Define which protocol versions mountd
# will advertise. The values are "no" or "yes"
# with yes being the default
#MOUNTD_NFS_V1="no"
#MOUNTD_NFS_V2="no"
#MOUNTD_NFS_V3="no"
...

  so i uncomment all those lines to (allegedly) disable all earlier
version support and:

# service nfs restart
Shutting down NFS mountd:  [  OK  ]
Shutting down NFS daemon:  [  OK  ]
Shutting down NFS quotas:  [  OK  ]
Shutting down NFS services:[  OK  ]
Starting NFS services: [  OK  ]
Starting NFS quotas:   [  OK  ]
Starting NFS daemon:   [  OK  ]
Starting NFS mountd: Usage: rpc.mountd [-F|--foreground] [-h|--help]
[-v|--version] [-d kind|--debug kind]
[-o num|--descriptors num] [-f exports-file|--exports-file=file]
[-p|--port port] [-V version|--nfs-version version]
[-N version|--no-nfs-version version] [-n|--no-tcp]
[-H ha-callout-prog] [-s|--state-directory-path path]
[-g|--manage-gids] [-t num|--num-threads=num]
   [FAILED]
#

  ok, what just happened there?  am i not allowed to do what i just
tried?  and if i explicitly try to run *only* NFSv4, why is rpc.mountd
even being invoked?  is there something else i need to be doing here?


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Re: Fedora 11 network share browsing using Natuilus with Samba - Fixed?

[Alan Cox]

> way through the user account preferences to turn this "feature" OFF. Various 
> posts on the 'net claim this violates the documented way DNS look ups work. 

It is

> The suggestion is to either turn it off if you can, which may involve a 
> phone call to your ISP, if not then LOUDLY complain about it screwing up you 
> network.

Oh and one other if you are particularly evil. If they are redirecting
stuff which contains trademarks you can let the trademark owners know
their marks are being used this way 8)

Fortunately you can also run your own nameserver which generally works
around the ISP.

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Re: any fundamental difference between fedora and suse NFSv4?

[Hiisi]

2010/1/3 Robert P. J. Day :
>
>  i'm currently reviewing a doc on suse linux enterprise 11, the
> section on NFS, but i don't have a SLES 11 machine in front of me.
> could anyone who uses both SLES 11 and fedora 12 comment on how
> indistinguishable the NFS setups are across those two distros?
>
>  so far, i haven't seen a lot that's massively incompatible, and i
> wouldn't expect to.  obviously, the fundamental files are going to be
> the same.
>
> rday
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I saw SLES 11 on my bro' laptop. I think it's totally different from
any Fedora I've ever seen. It's strange and ugly. It has different
folder structure and there's no yum (only some package manager called
'zypper')! Sorry, can't help you any more - I have no access to it now
- I've persuaded my brother to install CentOS on it.
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any fundamental difference between fedora and suse NFSv4?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  i'm currently reviewing a doc on suse linux enterprise 11, the
section on NFS, but i don't have a SLES 11 machine in front of me.
could anyone who uses both SLES 11 and fedora 12 comment on how
indistinguishable the NFS setups are across those two distros?

  so far, i haven't seen a lot that's massively incompatible, and i
wouldn't expect to.  obviously, the fundamental files are going to be
the same.

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Re: whence RPCBIND_ARGS?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Cameron Simpson wrote:

> On 02Jan2010 14:47, Robert P. J. Day  wrote:
> |   i'm tracing the execution of rpcbind on my f12 system, and in the
> | common code, i read:
> |
> | prog="rpcbind"
> | [ -f /etc/sysconfig/$prog ] && . /etc/sysconfig/$prog
> |
> | while in the start() function, there is:
> |
> | daemon $prog $RPCBIND_ARGS $1
> |
> |   i'm curious about this since:
> |
> | 1) there's no apparent documentation for setting/using $RPCBIND_ARGS
>
> "man rpcbind" describes a heap of options. Clearly you can put any of
> them into RPCBIND_ARGS.
>
> | 2) there's no /etc/sysconfig/rpcbind file for initial config
>
> A pity. There really ought to be a stub file with an empty
> RPCBIND_ARGS="" assignment. And a comment.
>
> | 3) there's no mention of RPCBIND_ARGS in the rpcbind man page
>
> Of course not. It's an artifact of the f12 startup scripts, not the
> rpcbind daemon itself.
>
> |   admittedly, that doesn't make any of this *wrong*, it just seems
> | that $RPCBIND_ARGS is kind of hanging out there, without anyone making
> | an effort to explain what might be done with it or why it would be
> | useful.  thoughts?
>
> Like all the /etc/sysconfig files, you can put something like:
>
>  RPCBIND_ARGS="-h some.local.lan.address"
>
> or the like to start rpcbind with particular arguments.

  i'm not suggesting there's anything *wrong* with the current
situation, just that since /etc/init.d/rpcbind explicitly refers to
RPCBIND_ARGS, it would have been handy to have mentioned it somewhere
so users might be able to take advantage of it.

  personally, i like your suggestion 2) above -- have a no-op
/etc/sysconfig/rpcbind file with at least a few comments and sample
variable settings.

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Re: how can I capture my desktop (video)??

[Felix Schwarz]

Am 03.01.2010 09:15, schrieb Adel ESSAFI:

I want to make capture for my desktop.


What about istanbul? (install from updates-testing, stable version is unusable 
due to bug 543278)


fs

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Re: how can I capture my desktop (video)??

[Ed Greshko]

Adel ESSAFI wrote:
> http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.3/index.php
>
>
>
> Hi list,
> I want to make capture for my desktop. xvidcap is a good tool but it
> is not suitable for capturing all the screen.
> Have you any idea about the tool that was used to capture the video in
> the link above?
recordmydesktop is in Fedora extras

Why not give that a try.




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how can I capture my desktop (video)??

[Adel ESSAFI]

http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.3/index.php



Hi list,
I want to make capture for my desktop. xvidcap is a good tool but it is not
suitable for capturing all the screen.
Have you any idea about the tool that was used to capture the video in the
link above?

Thanks

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