F9: What's up with the Firefox home page?
F9, firefox-3.0-0.60.beta5.fc9.i386 When I start firefox, it opens this page: http://start.fedoraproject.org/ The preferences say "When Firefox starts, show my homepage", so one might reasonably infer that start.fedoraproject.org is the default home page for Fedora-packaged firefox. However, if I click the "home" button on the toolbar, or use Alt+Home, I get the Google Firefox home page: http://www.google.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official Even explicitly setting my home page back to start.fedoraproject.org does not change the behavior of the home button. I could swear that the home button used to simply take me to the Fedora start page, but not now. I know it's stupid thing; I don't much care which page is used, but I'd very much like to know what's going on. Maybe something to do with FF3 entering release-candidate phase? https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: F9: What's up with the Firefox home page?
Tom Horsley wrote: ... In the preferences, I set the "startup" page to be be "blank", then I exited firefox, started it again, and observed that I did indeed get a blank page. Then I went back into preferences and set home page to be "current page", so finally I have home and startup pointing to the same place. Now try that using http://start.fedoraproject.org as the home page. Using startup = blank, when I click "current page", FF enters "about: blank" in the home page field. Using startup = home page, and showing start.fedoraproject.org, clicking "current page" does nothing. Entering http://start.fedoraproject.org in the home page entry sets that as the home page, but does not affect the "home" button. Maybe I only imagined that the home button once went to the Fedora page. Maybe they want some easy way for newbies to get to a known page. I just though it was a little weird that the home button doesn't go to the users home page. Thanks for having a look. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: Fedora ain't playin' around w/Firefox 3.
bruce wrote: the issue of the FF security measures (and others) is that the data on the URLs you visit might go back to a 3rd party company (IE google), which could/would therefore have a track of the sites that you visit. ... You bring up a good point, one that I hadn't thought too much about before. Except that isn't what's happening--at least according to Moz: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/phishing-protection/ What information is sent to Mozilla or its partners when Phishing and Malware Protection are enabled? There are two times when Firefox will communicate with Mozilla's partners while using Phishing and Malware Protection. The first is during the regular updates to the lists of reporting phishing and malware sites. No information about you or the sites you visit is communicated during list updates. The second is in the event that you encounter a reported phishing or malware site. Before blocking the site, Firefox will request a double-check to ensure that the reported site has not been removed from the list since your last update. In both cases, existing cookies you have from google.com, our list provider, may also be sent. The Mozilla Privacy Policy expressly forbids the collection of this data by Mozilla or its partners for any purpose other than improvement of the Phishing and Malware Protection feature. The Google Privacy Policy explains how Google handles user cookies. This would be easy to verify, either through the FF source, or by sniffing the traffic. If Mozilla was feeding Google browsing history, even under a "we won't peek" promise, it would be a huge scandal. Since it would be easy for anyone to check if it was happening, I feel pretty sure that it's not happening and that I don't even have to trust Google not to peek: they don't have the data to peek at. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: how to convert text file with unknown 16 bit encoding to 8 bit as cii
Lancashire, Pete wrote: how do I convert a file (or output to stdont) with an unknown 16 encoding into plain ol' ASCII aka 8 BIT ? Example of files contents... This seems to work with your sample: $ recode utf16 \n < B O D Y > \n 020 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: Can I create a link to an inode?
Doug Wyatt wrote: Jose Celestino wrote: ... 1. locate the open (deleted) file you want from the opening pid on /proc/$PID/fd/* 2. cp /proc/$PID/fd/$FD somewhere I think I read, somewhere, that in doing that I could end up with garbage bytes at the end of the last block in the copy, and would need to use the size from the original inode to trim the copied file. Don't know if that's fact or not. Also, by re-linking you preserve the mtime w/o hassling with touch. Interesting topic--I was wondering about this just the other day. A quick test shows that Jose's approach does not suffer from either of these problems. I'm using F9/ext3. I can't say /how/ it works, but it works perfectly: $ cp -p ~/Music/lib/Various\ Artists/Unknown/afm_St9RvdtvLeE.ogg . $ ls -li afm_St9RvdtvLeE.ogg 233608 -rw-rw-r-- 1 joe joe 2246026 2008-07-11 21:15 afm_St9RvdtvLeE.ogg $ audacious afm_St9RvdtvLeE.ogg & [1] 16404 $ file /proc/16404/fd/10 /proc/16404/fd/10: symbolic link to `/home/joe/tmp/afm_St9RvdtvLeE.ogg' $ ls -l /proc/16404/fd/10 lr-x-- 1 joe joe 64 2008-08-15 22:15 /proc/16404/fd/10 -> /home/joe/tmp/afm_St9RvdtvLeE.ogg $ rm afm_St9RvdtvLeE.ogg $ ls -l /proc/16404/fd/10 lr-x-- 1 joe joe 64 2008-08-15 22:15 /proc/16404/fd/10 -> /home/joe/tmp/afm_St9RvdtvLeE.ogg (deleted) $ file /proc/16404/fd/10 /proc/16404/fd/10: broken symbolic link to `/home/joe/tmp/afm_St9RvdtvLeE.ogg (deleted)' $ cp -p /proc/16404/fd/10 afm_back_cp.ogg $ ls -li afm_back_cp.ogg 233609 -rw-rw-r-- 1 joe joe 2246026 2008-07-11 21:15 afm_back_cp.ogg $ [1]+ Doneaudacious afm_St9RvdtvLeE.ogg $ cmp afm_back_cp.ogg ~/Music/lib/Various\ Artists/Unknown/afm_St9RvdtvLeE.ogg $ Note that the copy has the exact same size, mtime and contents as the original file--there's no need at all to use debugfs for this. Even though the /proc/$PID/fd/$FD appears as a symlink in the filesystem, it doesn't behave like a normal symlink. A plain symlink definitely won't support this sort of copy after the target file is deleted. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: USB keyboard and mouse stopped working in X ?
linux guy wrote: I installed the latest F9 updates this morning via yum update. ... When I got to the graphical login screen, I found the keyboard and mouse no longer worked. ... Any idea how this might be fixed ? ... I found the same this morning. Grr. $ less /var/log/Xorg.0.log ... (II) Cannot locate a core pointer device. (II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device. (II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices. If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable AllowEmptyInput. ... So, I added Section "ServerFlags" ... Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" EndSection to xorg.conf, restarted the X server and that did the trick. Not fun, but fortunately not too hard to route around. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: OpenOffice stock pictures path
On 07/28/2009 04:06 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Every upgrade to OO.org has resulted in a few of my documents missing pictures. The pictures in question were OO.org stock pictures I have to edit my documents to the new path so they work again. Is there something I'm doing wrong or does OO.org (or the Fedora RPM) need a change? I can't see that it's your fault, or Fedora's. It seems like a bad design to me, to use stock resources in a way that's almost guaranteed to break, but here's the official response: http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=54406 Yes, "this is a feature and no bug." I'd say it's worth asking them to take another look, since a routine upgrade will break documents that are otherwise untouched, but in the end it's all rather academic. Better to protect the document yourself by going to Edit > Links and "breaking" the link to those images. When you do that, OOo Writer will take a copy of the image and embed it in your document, so there's no way for them to get separated as before. You can also insert the ruler directly, rather than using the Insert > Horizontal Line menu, by using Tools > Gallery > Rulers, right click on the ruler you want > Insert > Copy (not Insert > Link). That will insert an embedded copy of the ruler image with no need to break the link as a separate step. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: How to gut &%$#&#@ Firefox?
On 08/03/2009 11:46 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: Erik P. Olsen wrote: ... As I said, make you you logout/login and you change you language setting at the login screen Or at least start ff with a different setting: $ LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 firefox Gives me ff menus /in espanol/. Make sure you start with a new ff process, else you'll simply get a new window from the currently running process. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
anyone else having problems with liferea?
It's been working fine for months, but today it's MIA. It seems to be running, but shows no window or panel icon. Running it from a console, I get: $ liferea ** (liferea-bin:11257): WARNING **: Liferea seems to be running already! $ killall liferea-bin $ liferea & [1] 11514 ** ** ERROR:(db.c:697):db_init: assertion failed: (sqlite3_get_autocommit (db)) 12c6bfad-4132-3dfd-08809636-3a075dc2 is dumped [1]+ Doneliferea Starting it with an empty config doesn't help; starting under a different user gives: $ liferea ** ** ERROR:(db.c:697):db_init: assertion failed: (sqlite3_get_autocommit (db)) liferea-bin: xcb_io.c:120: process_responses: Assertion `!(req && current_request && !((int) ((req->sequence) - (current_request)) <= 0))' failed. Aborted Any suggestions? https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
X display sharing fails (xauth)
I often need to test gui applications under a different login, so I can easily wipe out .dotfiles and run with a known environment. I've had this working since F8 with an xauth entry that allowed the other user access to my display. All I needed was a terminal window logged in as the other user, and I could run apps that needed access to the X display. A couple of days ago, this stopped working. Now, as the test user, I get $ firefox No protocol specified Error: cannot open display: :0.0 and from my normal desktop login, I get $ xauth list xauth: error in locking authority file /var/run/gdm/auth-cookie-XXGB42IU-for-jes I can use "xhost +" but I'd prefer to be a little more specific, even though I'm the only user. Switching users through the panel "User Switcher" is not convenient: I have to enter a password every time I switch users and I can't run things side by side on the same display. I don't really need full console access, just the display. Any ideas what broke, or suggestions for getting my old configuration working again? https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: X display sharing fails (xauth)
Bill Davidsen wrote: Joe Smith wrote: ... Any ideas what broke, or suggestions for getting my old configuration working again? Several thoughts... first, since you don't tell us what you meant by "an xauth entry that allowed the other user access to my display," no one will see anything there. Fair enough, but I have no idea what to call it. Xauth is an impenetrable mystery to me. All I did was crib from the man page: $ xauth extract - $DISPLAY | ssh testuser xauth merge - Second, did you do anything with networking and/or DNS which could have confused the issue? That includes installing "upgrades," which has been known to close security holes by making the whole method stop working. Nothing obvious. Gdm was updated on 3 Oct, but I'm fairly sure I've shared the display successfully after that. I guess that's the best possibility. There was an update of 'dbus-x11' that fits my time frame estimate better, but the package description seems to throw water on that: | D-BUS contains some tools that require Xlib to be installed, those are | in this separate package so server systems need not install X. And finally, why not just ssh to the other user with X forwarding? ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] would let user2 run X apps without xhost configuration. Maybe some of that will help. Yes, very helpful--thanks. Good point; I forgot about ssh. It's certainly a good solution but seems pretty heavyweight for what I need, both in setup work and while running. Any suggestion on how to follow-up on the gdm angle? I guess I could just file a bug on xauth and see what happens. Thanks again, https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: X display sharing fails (xauth)
Joe Smith wrote: ... Any ideas what broke, or suggestions for getting my old configuration working again? Ack. You know, I've had so few real problems with F9 that I've gotten totally rusty and dusty with age here. Cobwebs in the attic. What's the first thing you check when a system that's been working fine suddenly stops working? Disk space. My /var was full. No space left on device. No can make lock file. Would've been nice if the error message had mentioned that little detail, but I should have checked. I know, I know, disks don't run out of space anymore. You can't fill one up before it's time to get a bigger one. But I like to keep my /var on a partition. I've had silly things go wrong and fill an entire hd with the same log message. Of course that was 10 years ago when it took a few minutes to fill a disk like that. Now it would probably take a few hours. Oh well, embarrassing, but easy to fix. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?
Dave Burns wrote: ... Not sure if it is a bug in find or gvfs, but -xdev and -mount do not help with this problem. I've never seen these options work, ever. I sure would like to know why, or what I'm doing wrong, it would be handy to be able to use them. Can you just skip the .gvfs items specifically, by name, with -prune? Something like: find / -name .gvfs -prune -o -print https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?
Gordon Messmer wrote: ... If you've ever seen find return results from a directory that it wasn't told to search when using -xdev or -mount, then that would be a bug. I've never seen find misbehave in that way, though. Well, there you go: it works as expected now. I should know better; "Test first, complain later". Thanks for making me check ;-) https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: How to enter unicode in F9
Dave Feustel wrote: ... Is there a way to enter unicode characters in xterm? Not for xterm specifically, but in gnome-terminal or other gtk applications, you can type Unicode characters using Ctrl+Shift+U, hex digits, space. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: OpenOfficeWriter: How to insert page-break
Dave Feustel wrote: ... What are good books or tutorials for writer? The OOo User Guides are now online (or as PDFs): http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual There are some more tutorial/educational resources available as well: http://documentation.openoffice.org/conceptualguide/ Check the main doc page for the full meal: http://documentation.openoffice.org https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: always same error in perl debug?
sean darcy wrote:
F9, perl-5.10.0-38.fc9.i386
running perl -d myscript.pl, single-stepping, I always get the same
error, even for really simple statments:
...
So is this a perl bug? Or am I missing something?
It's ok for me:
$ rpm -q perl
perl-5.10.0-38.fc9.i386
$ perl -d utf8_to_cpoint.perl
Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.3
Editor support available.
Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help.
main::(utf8_to_cpoint.perl:3): @utf_bytes = map { hex } @ARGV;
DB<1> q
Sorry, I'm not sure what else to try here.
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Re: How to Capture Flash Streams - (Radio Stations)
Jorge Fábregas wrote: ... I can play this (perfectly fine) using my browser but I'm wondering if anyone knows of a command-line tool that could play/grab these kind of streams? ... I found the following blog post helpful for capturing audio when a Flash video is not downloaded to a temp file: Instructions and shell script for dubbing audio from a running application into a file: http://www.outflux.net/blog/archives/2009/04/19/recording-from-pulseaudio/ The script uses two command line utilities: pactl and parec. "pactl list" produces a list of the active PA channels (is that the right word?). From the list, the appropriate channel name is plucked out, and passed to parec(ord) to grab the audio data. The utilities are packaged on Fedora 9 with "pulseaudio-utils". https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Cannot find -lf2c compilation error
Paul Smith wrote: I am trying to compile a program which was written in C. (The Makefile is shown below.) However, when I run the command 'make', I get the following error: $ make ... -L./f2c -lf2c -lm /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lf2c ... The f2c library is[*] part of the GNU Fortran runtime support. Are some of your source files written in Fortran? If not, then you don't need the f2c lib; just edit it out of the linking step. If you do have some Fortran code lurking in there, then you will need the f2c library. It should be included with GNU Fortran, so there may be a problem with the linker options that's preventing ld from finding the library. [*] Or was--it's been ten years since I used it. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
F11 dvd media errors
I'm having no luck getting the F11 dvd media to pass the initial media check. Has anyone had any luck with this? Downloaded Fedora-11-i386-DVD.iso using the fedoraproject.org torrent. The disk image passed the sha256sum check. Burning to dvd+r gave no errors. Booting the F11 dvd and running the media check failed twice on the first disk I made, and again after burning and booting a new copy. Running the F11 media check on my F10 dvd was successful. Booting the F10 dvd and running the media check on the F11 dvd gave this error: Unable to read the disc checksum from the primary volume descriptor. This probably means the disc was created without adding the checksum. It hardly seems possible that the F11 dvd image is borked, but that's what it looks like. Any suggestions? https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: F11 dvd media errors
Andre Robatino wrote: On 06/09/2009 05:27 PM, Joe Smith wrote: ... Any suggestions? Try using the handy rawread script ... after burning it. I always do this after burning a disc. Good call. Both of the disks I burned show read errors when I use this method to test them. Now to figure out why... Thanks for the tip! https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: F11 dvd media errors
On 06/09/2009 08:52 PM, Tim wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 17:27 -0400, Joe Smith wrote: It hardly seems possible that the F11 dvd image is borked, but that's what it looks like. Any suggestions? Problems with your burner, or the blank discs? Try burning it at a slower speed. Thanks for the suggestion(s). I guess my dvd drive is going flaky. I just repeated (almost) the same command as before: # dvdrecord -dao -speed=0 dev=/dev/dvd Fedora-11-i386-DVD.iso but this time the disk had no errors with rawread/dd and the pre-install media check passed. The only change I made to the command was to add the "-dao -speed=0" options, which are actually the defaults, as far as I can tell, so I doubt that made any difference. The actual burning mode and speed reported during the burn were the same as before. At least it's a huge win to be able to check it before re-booting. Anyway, F11 is installed, and now I'm merrily pounding my head trying to get things configured properly again. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: F11 dvd media errors
On 06/11/2009 11:41 PM, Dave Close wrote: I see a problem which may be identical to the original report, but the solution discovered does not fit. ... Also the correct checksum and precisely the correct size. All this done using the same drive. New ideas? You might want to try the 'rawread' script from the link given previously, although I don't see how it would make any difference. In my case, dd reported read errors with later blocks on the disk, so I have no doubt that the media check failure was accurate. If I got dd to produce the right checksum off the media, as you did, I would feel pretty safe in skipping the boot-time check. But I can tell you from painful experience that media errors late in the install process are Not Fun--especially if you don't have an alternative system, with everything you need to burn a new disk image. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: F11 dvd media errors
On 06/12/2009 11:46 AM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Patrick O'Callaghan said: ... Interesting thought. In fact there's no reason an install DVD can't offer you stuff that's not physically present. ... Um, I'm pretty sure it already does that. The network repos are listed, you just have to click to enable them. Yep. I saw that you could enable other repos during the f11 install. What Alan is talking about is a little more difficult, because you'd have to have the network as a fall-back for the local media A fallback would be slick, but I'd be happy it it would just stop installing packages and do whatever final set up is needed to leave a bootable, if not entirely complete, system. Of course, if a critical package(s) is missing it won't boot, but IME, most media errors come late in the install after all the critical stuff is already loaded. Better to end up with a system that I could at least try to boot, and then decide how to proceed. Instead, the system is a brick until the problem is diagnosed (drive? disk?) and fixed. Even "Abort, Retry, Ignore?" was better than a halt and a dead box. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
f11: gnome-terminal starts up in /
I have a gnome-terminal instance started with my session; the shell it starts is in my home directory. If I start new terminal windows from that one, or if I start 'gnome-terminal' from a command line, they start in ~. But the gnome-terminals I start from the menu, or from a panel launcher, come up with the shell in the system root: /. This is only the case for my normal user account; if I login as a separate 'testing' user, the terminals there are all fine. Any ideas what I may have broken, or what I need to tweak to get all the terminals to start in ~? https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: f11: gnome-terminal starts up in /
On 06/16/2009 01:03 PM, Joe Smith wrote: ... But the gnome-terminals I start from the menu, or from a panel launcher, come up with the shell in the system root: /. ... Hmm... rebooting has cured it. SEtroubleshoot suggested relabeling. I rebooted to do that, and when it was finished, the terminals are all back to normal. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: two F11 issues
On 06/22/2009 11:55 AM, fred smith wrote: ... 2) printing anything to my Brother HL2070N laser printer prints only one line of garbage at the bottom of the page, then nothing else. Or else the job sits in the queue forever without printing Same problem here with that printer on my little network. It was working perfectly for me in f9 using ipp and the hl1250 driver. I could never get it to work with f11--same results you describe. The wedged state seems to accompany a driver problem of some sort: I get cryptic errors saying "/usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp failed' in the printer config dialog, or "[Job 12] Job stopped due to filter errors..." in the CUPS log. The only way I got it to work was to install the driver and lpd bridge from the Brother Linux support site. Not a very satisfying solution, and there are still glitches with it (routine, erroneous "paper out" condition), but at least I can print again. I don't feel like I understand enough of what's happening or what's /supposed/ to happen to even file a useful bug report--which is now the case for huge chunks of desktop Linux, but that's a whole 'nother whine. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: two F11 issues
On 06/23/2009 06:35 AM, fred smith wrote: ... Do you know if anyone has filed a Bugzilla against this problem? Good question. I forgot to check. These two look relevant, at least: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_id=507628,507629 It might be a good idea to go ahead and file a new one specifically for the specific printer model, and include a reference to those existing issues. > I was digging around on the Brother web site last night, after reading > your mail, and couldn't find any mention of Linux. They certainly used > to have Linux drivers, but I couldn't find anything. Do you suppose > they've backslid on their Linux commitment? or is it hiding somewhere > else? No idea. I've never tried to find their Linux stuff, just followed links from other sites. It seems unusual for any vendor to crow about their Linux support. Here's the openprinting page for the printer: http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-HL-2070N There's a link to the Brother support site on that page, but here it is again: http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.html https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: two F11 issues (brother printer)
On 06/23/2009 02:02 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: ... For that model brother printer, this might also be relevant: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496521 ... Yep, that's right on target. I was using the hl1250 driver in f9 and it was working well. Good to see that it's being looked into. Thanks for following up, Tom. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Random screen blanking -- a clue
On 07/10/2009 10:10 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: ... It's the screensaver. Something's causing it to trip, when it shouldn't. Absolutely. The screen going dead while I was working scared me half to death a few times until I went to the power management settings and changed it to never put the display to sleep. No more problems until the other day when I decided to try again, but it's happened again once since I enabled it. It happens both ways: sometimes the screen gets shut off when the system is not idle, and sometimes it doesn't get shut off when the system is idle. And _most_ of the time, it works correctly. I don't think it has anything to do with the screen saver per se; that seems to be ok. I think it's the power management that's a little confused. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
OpenOffice page preview zoom disabled
Anyone else seen this? Start OpenOffice.org Writer with a new text document. File > Page Preview The preview comes up but the zoom functions are all disabled--grayed out. Renaming the OOo profile folder and starting OOo with a fresh one does not help, but, logging in as a test user, OOo works correctly. So, it looks like something in my normal login session is causing the problem, but I can't imagine what. Any ideas? https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Audacity, F9, and sound systems
Michael Schwendt wrote: ... Here's a Test Update for F9 waiting to be pushed into the updates-testing repository: ... Sweet! I can't test inputs ATM, but playback works perfectly on F9, with either the "ALSA: default" or "ALSA: pulse" settings. The three other available settings ALSA: HDA NVidia: ALC861 Digital (hw:0,1) ALSA: iec958 ALSA: spdif don't give any audio output. The last one, I understand. The other two are mysterious. I've had problems fairly consistently with previous versions (from the F9 repos) not finding a suitable output device. It seemed to be some conflict with media players in the browser (Flash player maybe?): if I shut down the browser and restarted audacity, it would show a different set of output devices and I could usually find one that worked. Can anyone point to a good overview of how the various pieces of Fedora's current audio support fit together? Especially pulseaudio and gstreamer, and how to configure/control them. I can't even guess how to use the various mixers and audio settings, because I don't have a clear idea what does what. I realize things are still evolving--maybe it's clearer in F10. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Audacity, F9, and sound systems
Kevin Kofler wrote: ... PulseAudio already uses the hardware, so you can't access it directly, only through PulseAudio. ... This sort of conflicts is exactly what PulseAudio is designed to solve, but it only works if everything goes through PulseAudio, you can't access the hardware directly and expect no conflicts over it. Thanks! That's exactly the kind of information I'm looking for. It's great to have audacity "just work" now. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: rkhunter found this...
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: ... For fun, I looked at: /etc/init.d/nsd and there was code in two places that had: 2>%1 (a stderr redirect?) and I suspected it was intended to be: 2>&1? I was not sure the % was something I have seen before - this does not exists in the entire /etc/init.d directory except for nsd! Bug Thanks! Dan I also found the same problems in: /etc/cron.hourly/nsd There are three places where the same 2>%1 appears but ALSO there is that /dev/nul (one "l") !!! Now, the question I have is: is 2>%1 a valid redirect string? If not, then it is only the cron script in 3 places but if it is not, then there are 5 places, two in init.d and three in the cron script. Yes, it's a valid redirection: it redirects stderr to a file named '%1' in the current directory. You may want to check around for that file--I assume the working directory for cron and init is /, but I could be wrong. Each place where nsdc is run in those two scripts should be changed to look like this: /usr/sbin/nsdc command > /dev/null 2>&1 I.e., with the correct device name and redirect syntax. I expect filing an issue and passing along the corrections would be helpful. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Update and Report on Fedora August 2008 Intrusion
Jonathan Dieter wrote: ... Thank you for the update. I, for one, really appreciate hearing the whole story. Agreed--well done. Any ideas what cron job it was that failed, and why, that first aroused suspicion? I'd like to know better what kind of things to watch for. I can't help thinking that a less clumsy intruder could have done a lot more damage. Hopefully the additional precautions will make it that much harder to be "less clumsy". https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: [OT] sed command to add line after matching lines
Dan Track wrote:
... I want to add a few lines after matching a couple of lines in a
file using sed, ...
sed can be awkward when working with more than one line at a time.
Can you use perl?
$ perl -pe 'BEGIN{undef $/};s/server 10.33.45.3\nserver
ldap.example.com\nserver orion/# server 10.33.45.3\n# server
ldap.example.com\n# server orion\n\nserver fire.example.com\nserver
earth.example.com\nserver space.example.com\n/s'
(That's meant to be all on one line.)
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