Last flash plugin update has SELinux problems
I'm still using F12 but and of course that are no more Fedora updates but the Adobe repo still does updates. So I updated: From my /var/log/yum.log Oct 04 19:17:50 Updated: flash-plugin-11.0.1.152-release.i386 and then flash no longer worked. I found that I get these SELinux security alerts: SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/epiphany from loading /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so which requires text relocation. I followed the suggested workaround: chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so' which fixed the problem. Now I'm guessing that no one is going to spend time fixing a problem for an old release but the SE security alert suggests it is a problem with the plugin and not with SELinux or F12. Is anybody with a later release having the same issue? If so how should this be reported to Adobe. I didn't see a way to do this on their site. Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Need help with rpmbuild
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:25:41 +0300 Panu Matilainen pmati...@laiskiainen.org wrote: My app depends on python so I have a Requires: python line in the .spec file. Python is installed on my target system but the python binary in located in /usr/bin as indicated by $ rpm -qil python When I try to install my rpm, it complains that it can't find /usr/local/bin/python. Any idea why my rpm is looking for python in all the wrong places? One or more python scripts in your package contain this shebang: #!/usr/local/bin/python Rpm is right to complain: If you tried to execute that file, it would fail because no such python interpreter exists on a normal Fedora installation. You need to locate + patch those files to refer to the system python path instead. - Panu - That was it, thanks. Only 2 instances so not too much work. Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Need help with rpmbuild
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:58:02 -0400 Todd Zullinger t...@pobox.com wrote: On Mar 24, 2011 7:20 AM, Steve Blackwell zep...@cfl.rr.com wrote: Ah, Thanks. That helped. Now I need to lookup the syntax of the install macro. The install I'm referring to here is a normal command, not a macro. Use man install. I have got my rpm to build successfully but now I have a dependency problem. My app depends on python so I have a Requires: python line in the .spec file. Python is installed on my target system but the python binary in located in /usr/bin as indicated by $ rpm -qil python When I try to install my rpm, it complains that it can't find /usr/local/bin/python. Any idea why my rpm is looking for python in all the wrong places? Thanks, Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Need help with rpmbuild
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:21:16 -0400
Todd Zullinger t...@pobox.com wrote:
Steve Blackwell wrote:
Specifically the install section. I'm not understanding how the
%install section works with the %files section.
I hope this is not considered OT.
The RPM_BUILD_ROOT should exactly mirror the direcotry structure you
want to have your package files installed into. If you want the file
in /tmp, then you would want to use $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/tmp as the
destination. You must create RPM_BUILD_ROOT/tmp. If it was me, I'd
use the install command to do this in one step:
%install
install -p -m755 -D %{name} RPM_BUILD_ROOT/tmp/%{name}
Ah, Thanks. That helped. Now I need to lookup the syntax of the install
macro.
And thanks to Chris JD too.
Steve
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Need help with rpmbuild
Specifically the install section. I'm not understanding how the
%install section works with the %files section.
I hope this is not considered OT.
Let's say I want my rpm to install the file hello
in /tmp on a target system. The %prep and %build sections work OK and
create my hello file in BUILD/hello-1. (Why BUILD/hello-1 and not just
BUILD I don't know but for now it doesn't matter.)
The install and files sections of my spec file look like this:
(Obviously %{name} is defined as hello)
%install
cp %{name} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/
%files
%defattr(-,root,root,-)
/tmp/hello
%BuildRoot is defined (by default) to be
%(mktemp -ud %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-XX)
What's with the X?
The cp works as expected but then an error occurs saying:
Extracting debug info ... blah ... blah...
...
error: File not
found: /home/steve/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/hello-1-1.fc12.i386/tmp/hello
I feel like I'm missing the big picture here.
I'd appreciate any direct help or pointers to some good explanation.
I've read a bunch of docs but they have not helped in this case.
Thanks,
Steve
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Kernel errors
I got this error in logwatch this morning: WARNING: Kernel Errors Present [c0796453] error_code+0x73/0x78 ...: 1 Time(s) I don't see any problems with my system. What does it mean? Google wasn't particularly helpful. # uname -a Linux steve.blackwell 2.6.32.21-168.fc12.i686 #1 SMP Wed Sep 15 16:25:04 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
More yum update problems
# uname -a Linux steve.blackwell 2.6.32.21-166.fc12.i686 #1 SMP Fri Aug 27 06:55:23 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux # rpm -qa | grep yum yum-plugin-fastestmirror-1.1.26-1.fc12.noarch anaconda-yum-plugins-1.0-5.fc12.noarch PackageKit-yum-0.5.7-2.fc12.i686 yum-3.2.28-3.fc12.noarch yum-updatesd-0.9-3.fc12.noarch PackageKit-yum-plugin-0.5.7-2.fc12.i686 yum-utils-1.1.26-1.fc12.noarch yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-14.fc12.i686 While attempting to update livna-config-display which showed up yesterday, I get these errors: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2759, in install_signature self.yumbase.getKeyForPackage(pkg, askcb = lambda x, y, z: True) File /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py, line 4329, in getKeyForPackage result = ts.pgpImportPubkey(misc.procgpgkey(info['raw_key'])) File /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rpmUtils/transaction.py, line 59, in __getattr__ return self.getMethod(attr) File /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rpmUtils/transaction.py, line 69, in getMethod return getattr(self.ts, method) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'pgpImportPubkey' Is this a known problem and is anybody else seeing it? Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: More yum update problems
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:09:45 +0530 Ankur Sinha sanjay.an...@gmail.com wrote: While attempting to update livna-config-display which showed up yesterday, I get these errors: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2759, in install_signature self.yumbase.getKeyForPackage(pkg, askcb = lambda x, y, z: True) File /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py, line 4329, in getKeyForPackage result = ts.pgpImportPubkey(misc.procgpgkey(info['raw_key'])) File /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rpmUtils/transaction.py, line 59, in __getattr__ return self.getMethod(attr) File /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rpmUtils/transaction.py, line 69, in getMethod return getattr(self.ts, method) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'pgpImportPubkey' Is this a known problem and is anybody else seeing it? Steve try: (as root) yum clean all yum update That fixed it! Thanks Ankur Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: gdmsetup
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:58:54 -0500 Gregory P. Ennis po...@pomec.net wrote: Dear List, On older versions of Fedora we could use gdmsetup to restrict the logon display choices to certain users. In other words certain users could be displayed as legitimate logon users and other users could be hidden from being displayed. I think somewhere after Fedora 8 gdmsetup was removed from the package. Is there a way to do the same with F13 using the gnome gui? Greg Ennis I believe that you can edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf and use either include=list of users or exclude=list of users in the [greeter] section. I haven't tried this and the re-write of GDM cut some functionality out so it may no longer be possible. Here's a link for you: http://projects.gnome.org/gdm/docs/2.14/configuration.html#greetersection See section 4.2.5. Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: rkhunter warning
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:58:00 -0600 Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:19:50 -0400 Steve Blackwell zep...@cfl.rr.com wrote: Hmmm... Well this is strange. Even though I've added ALLOWHIDDENDIR=/etc/.java to my /etc/rkhunter.conf file, I'm still getting warnings. Is there a way to tell what rkhunter is reading from the conf file? Well, it should read /etc/rkhunter.conf and also /etc/rkhunter.conf.local (which is the better place to make local changes that still allow you to get changes from package updates to /etc/rkhunter.conf. Are you sure this is a dir and not a file? You could try --debug I suppose. kevin /etc/.java is definitely a directory $ ls -ld /etc/.java drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 2010-08-27 21:01 /etc/.java I don't have a /etc/rkhunter.conf/local file $ ls -al /etc/rkhunter* -rw-r-. 1 root root 31048 2010-09-03 09:54 /etc/rkhunter.conf -rw-r-. 1 root root 31030 2010-06-26 20:48 /etc/rkhunter.conf.rpmnew I ran: # rkhunter --check --debug and I have a file in /tmp Doh!!! Never mind. I have fat fingers. I typed: ALLOWHIDDEBDIR=/etc/.java instead of ALLOWHIDDENDIR=/etc/.java in my conf file. Apologies for the noise. Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: [OT] e-mail problems
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:20:53 -0400 Steve Blackwell zep...@cfl.rr.com wrote: On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:41:11 -0600 Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 15:16 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote: I'm struggling to explain why I appear to never have problems when the router is taken out of the equation. How can I prove to my ISP that it is their problem? How can I prove that the fact that I mowed my lawn yesterday didn't cause the pavement to collapse in front of the grocery store downtown? In both instances, you're looking at two things that are REALLY unrelated to each other in any way. There's nothing to prove. OK, so prove is not the right word. I'm looking for something I can do to convince my ISP that they need to look closer at their server. Logic doesn't seem to work on them. Perhaps there is some on-line test to put a router through its paces? The other problem I've been having is that my throughput speed drops from ~27000kbps to ~15000 and when I reboot the router it goes back to the higher number Well I've just noticed that the router firmware could do with upgrading so I'm going offline to do that. Wish me luck. Steve Well the firmware upgrade may have made a difference. I'm now getting e-mails from people who were getting them rejected before. They are just taking 5 hours or so to arrive. I agree with Frank Cox that it SHOULD have made no difference at all. Strange coincidence that its kind of working now though. Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: rkhunter warning
On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 10:25:17 -0400 Steve Blackwell zep...@cfl.rr.com wrote: On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 16:16:05 +0200 Marco Guazzone marco.guazz...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Steve Blackwell zep...@cfl.rr.com wrote: This morning I checked out an rkhunter warning I got and found it was because of a hidden directory /etc/.java. I installed Sun's java recently so I expect it's because of that. I just wanted to check and see that other people who have installed Sun's (or rather Oracle's) java also have a /etc/.java directory. Yes, I have. In order to quiet rkhunter, you can insert the line: ALLOWHIDDENDIR=/etc/.java in your /etc/rkhunter.conf Cheers, -- Marco Yes, I've already done that. Thanks for the feedback. I wanted to make sure I wasn't ignoring something of significance. Steve Hmmm... Well this is strange. Even though I've added ALLOWHIDDENDIR=/etc/.java to my /etc/rkhunter.conf file, I'm still getting warnings. Is there a way to tell what rkhunter is reading from the conf file? Thanks, Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: gpg and gnome
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:52:52 -0400 Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com wrote: What is the gnome equivalent of kgpg ? thanks! gene/ seahorse Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
[OT] e-mail problems
I have been having some problems with my e-mail for about a week or so. Some e-mails are not getting delivered but most are. I contacted my ISP and they had me plug the cable modem directly to the computer instead of through the router and the problems appear to go away. This makes no sense to me. If someone sending an e-mail to me gets the mail bounced back to them with a server time out error from the ISP, how could my router affect that? The router in question is a Linksys e3000. I called them too but they won't talk to me with sending them $s. Can anyone explain that or is my ISP blowing smoke? Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: [OT] e-mail problems
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:07:32 -0600 Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 14:50 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote: This makes no sense to me. If someone sending an e-mail to me gets the mail bounced back to them with a server time out error from the ISP, how could my router affect that? The router in question is a Linksys e3000. I called them too but they won't talk to me with sending them $s. Are you running your own mailserver? If not, and your email is being handled by the ISP's mailserver and you merely run a mail client of some kind to read your email, then what you have on your end has nothing to do with the ISP's mailserver at all. No, I'm just running the claws-mail client on this machine and my wife is running zimbra on her Windows 7 laptop. We've both had e-mails not arrive. I'm struggling to explain why I appear to never have problems when the router is taken out of the equation. How can I prove to my ISP that it is their problem? Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: [OT] e-mail problems
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:41:11 -0600 Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 15:16 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote: I'm struggling to explain why I appear to never have problems when the router is taken out of the equation. How can I prove to my ISP that it is their problem? How can I prove that the fact that I mowed my lawn yesterday didn't cause the pavement to collapse in front of the grocery store downtown? In both instances, you're looking at two things that are REALLY unrelated to each other in any way. There's nothing to prove. OK, so prove is not the right word. I'm looking for something I can do to convince my ISP that they need to look closer at their server. Logic doesn't seem to work on them. Perhaps there is some on-line test to put a router through its paces? The other problem I've been having is that my throughput speed drops from ~27000kbps to ~15000 and when I reboot the router it goes back to the higher number Well I've just noticed that the router firmware could do with upgrading so I'm going offline to do that. Wish me luck. Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: complaining about gcc compiler
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:09:51 +0530 zico banerjee soumabho1...@gmail.com wrote: hey guys i am new to fedora13 and after writing a program in c i cant compile it using gcc file_namecomand.it gives comand not found please help... Can you give us the exact cmd line you are using? If you have a file called junk.c, the usual way to compile it is: $ gcc -o bin_file_name junk.c Now if you are actually typing: $ gcc junk.c command param1 Then you will get this: gcc: command: No such file or directory gcc: param: No such file or directory because gcc is expecting a list of c files to compile. Apologies if this is too obvious. If gcc is the command not found, then you probably don't have it installed as others have suggested. Type: $ rpm -qa | grep gcc and if you get no output, you don't have it. HTH Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
rkhunter warning
This morning I checked out an rkhunter warning I got and found it was because of a hidden directory /etc/.java. I installed Sun's java recently so I expect it's because of that. I just wanted to check and see that other people who have installed Sun's (or rather Oracle's) java also have a /etc/.java directory. Thanks, Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: gtkam
On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 16:05:39 +0200 (CEST) Walter Cazzola cazz...@dico.unimi.it wrote: Hi all, I'm just passed to the fedora flavor of linux after a more than 5 years using mandrake/mandriva. I'm pretty happy with the passage but I'm still looking for some of the applications I was using with mandriva or a good replacement. I was used to download pictures from my camera by using gtkam but yum can't find it. I tried to install the mandriva version but it breaks the dependencies. Can I install gtkam on my fedora and if yes how? otherwise does it exist a good alternative to it better if for kde. Thanks for the help Walter f-spot or digiKam. I think digiKam is a KDE app. Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: rkhunter warning
On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 16:16:05 +0200 Marco Guazzone marco.guazz...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Steve Blackwell zep...@cfl.rr.com wrote: This morning I checked out an rkhunter warning I got and found it was because of a hidden directory /etc/.java. I installed Sun's java recently so I expect it's because of that. I just wanted to check and see that other people who have installed Sun's (or rather Oracle's) java also have a /etc/.java directory. Yes, I have. In order to quiet rkhunter, you can insert the line: ALLOWHIDDENDIR=/etc/.java in your /etc/rkhunter.conf Cheers, -- Marco Yes, I've already done that. Thanks for the feedback. I wanted to make sure I wasn't ignoring something of significance. Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Random kernel update breakage
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:14:48 +0300 Gilboa Davara gilb...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 22:29 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Every once in a while, something breaks when a kernel update gets installed. It doesn't happen every time, I'd say that once in every thirty or so kernel updates, grub fails to come up after a subsequent reboot. This is just a minor annoyance -- I'd have to boot the install CD in rescue mode, let it mount Fedora on /mnt/sysimage, chroot to it, and execute /sbin/grub-install -- but I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing this. This just happened again -- after installing 2.6.33.8-149.fc13, rebooting my laptop only results in a black screen, with a BIOS cursor uselessly blinking away in the top-left corner. Whip out the rescue CD, and now a few minutes later I'm back in business. But then, I updated a different server to 2.6.33.8-149.fc13, and it booted the new kernel just fine. Previously, this same server got similarly de-grubbed by an earlier kernel update, but the laptop had no issues being updated to the same kernel. I've had this happen to me too. My theory has been that either it has nothing to do with Fedora at all and it is a BIOS problem or that the grub device.map file gets reversed somehow. In either case, you would have to have 2 disks so perhaps we can determine if anyone who has seen this problem only has one disk which would dispel my theory. Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: GDM and XDMCP
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:11:19 + (UTC) JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Steve Blackwell zephod at cfl.rr.com writes: ... GDM 2.20 and earlier supported the ability to...and the ability to run the XDMCP chooser from the login screen. These features were not added back during the 2.22 rewrite. So there is no XDMCP chooser on the GDM login screen (which explains why I couldn't find it) but the way this is written implies that you can run the XDMCP chooser from somewhere else. Perhaps from a terminal window? Does anyone know if this is possible and if so how? Thanks, Steve Hi, an overview/solutions to this problem: http://www.peppertop.com/blog/?p=690 PLease read all 4 parts. JB Hey JB! Thanks for the link to that blog. Very informative. Using the xinit method from the second post, I was actually able to get the login screen to the remote SuSE box and successfully login. Unfortunately, after a couple of minutes the Xserver dies. It's strange because it spits out: ... waiting for X server to begin accepting connections FreeType: couldn't find encoding 'iso8859-13' for '/usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF/luximr.ttf' and then .. No protocol specified repeatedly even though it appears to be working until eventually it says giving up. xinit: Resource temporarily unavailable (errno 11): unable to connect to X server waiting for X server to shut down xinit: Server error. I don't see anything unusual in the logs. I'm going to try the xephyr method next as that is reported to be the most stable. Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Auto save for .txt files
On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:23:42 +0930 Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 14:50 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote: vim apparentlt doesn't do it: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/vimfaq2html3.pl#5.9 Though, if I've had a crash, or some other interruption (e.g. loss of network connection). When I restart vim to edit the same file, or re-open the same file in vim, it finds the swap file it was previously using, and offers to let me recover from where I left off. Ahh, yes, vim -r, where r stands for recovery. I had forgotten about that. Steve. -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: GDM and XDMCP
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:09:48 -0700 Daniel B. Thurman d...@cdkkt.com wrote: On 08/19/2010 07:48 AM, Steve Blackwell wrote: I want to be able to log in to another computer from this computer using XDMCP. Assuming that I have configured the other computer correctly, a big assumption to be sure, what do I have to do to GDM to show a menu or some other way of displaying the available XDMCP computers on my login screen? I get plenty of google hits on GDM XDMCP but they all appear to be about how to configure GDM to allow a remote computer to log in to my local computer and not the other way around. Is XDMCP even the right way to go? Should I be using VNC? I know XDMCP is inherently insecure but this is on a local private network. Thanks, Steve I use XDMCP on all of my boxes and force only local connections. Tested from 5 - 13 and it works. Are you using GDM or KDM? If GDM can you post your custom.conf file and if it is possible, a pic of your GDM screen with the XDMCP hosts shown? Thanks, Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
GDM and XDMCP
I want to be able to log in to another computer from this computer using XDMCP. Assuming that I have configured the other computer correctly, a big assumption to be sure, what do I have to do to GDM to show a menu or some other way of displaying the available XDMCP computers on my login screen? I get plenty of google hits on GDM XDMCP but they all appear to be about how to configure GDM to allow a remote computer to log in to my local computer and not the other way around. Is XDMCP even the right way to go? Should I be using VNC? I know XDMCP is inherently insecure but this is on a local private network. Thanks, Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: GDM and XDMCP
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:29:28 + (UTC) JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Steve Blackwell zephod at cfl.rr.com writes: I want to be able to log in to another computer from this computer using XDMCP. Assuming that I have configured the other computer correctly, a big assumption to be sure, what do I have to do to GDM to show a menu or some other way of displaying the available XDMCP computers on my login screen? I get plenty of google hits on GDM XDMCP but they all appear to be about how to configure GDM to allow a remote computer to log in to my local computer and not the other way around. Is XDMCP even the right way to go? Should I be using VNC? I know XDMCP is inherently insecure but this is on a local private network. Thanks, Steve Hi, is it about XDMCP Chooser ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_display_manager Gnome Display Manager Reference Manual http://projects.gnome.org/gdm/docs/2.8/gdm.html 3. Configuration 3.2.6. XDCMP Chooser Options I added AllowAdd=true and Broadcast=true to the custom.conf file and DisallowTCP=false to the security section. I also open ports 177, 6000-6005 and 7100 in the host's firewall (not the router's) and restarted gdm but there was no change. If AllowAdd=true was being honored, there would have to be some way of adding a host but there isn't. I also note the the gdm reference manual has not been updated since 2004. Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: kernel crash
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:44:16 +0300 Gilboa Davara gilb...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 13:08 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote: On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 02:12:16 +0930 Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 12:05 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote: I've been looking at my logs some more. I don't understand these messages: Aug 17 10:30:50 steve kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 455) Aug 17 10:30:50 steve kernel: CPU1: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 455) Aug 17 10:30:50 steve kernel: CPU1: Temperature/speed normal Aug 17 10:30:50 steve kernel: CPU0: Temperature/speed normal And the CPU overheating as well as your hard drive? Is the computer in a hot room? Are the fans working? Is the ventilation blocked? Is the computer wedged in between things that restrict airflow? Are things full of fluff and dust? Well it would seems so but I don't trust the messages. It doesn't seem reasonable that the CPUs go overtemp and then immediately cool down enough to be OK. Actually it is possible. Your CPU has auto-throttle support. Read: When the CPU passes a certain temperature threshold, it automatically clocks down (or inserts NOPs) in-order to prevent is from burning out. Never the less, if your machine's cooling is sufficient you shouldn't see this message. If you CPU's high and low water mark are the same (E.g. 90C), the CPU will reach 90C, throttle, and drop to 89C - all in one second. I'd suggest you configure lm_sensros and monitor the CPU and board temperature. $ sensors-detect $ /etc/init.d/lm_sensors restart $ sensors -s $ sensors - Gilboa P.S. can you post your hardware configuration? Running sensors-detect produced the same /etc/sysconfig/lm_sensors file that I already had. Running sensors shows this: # sensors atk0110-acpi-0 Adapter: ACPI interface Vcore Voltage: +1.42 V (min = +1.45 V, max = +1.75 V) +3.3 Voltage: +1.68 V (min = +3.00 V, max = +3.60 V) +5.0 Voltage: +1.62 V (min = +4.50 V, max = +5.50 V) +12.0 Voltage:+11.98 V (min = +11.20 V, max = +13.20 V) CPU FAN Speed:56250 RPM (min =0 RPM) CHASSIS FAN Speed: 0 RPM (min =0 RPM) POWER FAN Speed: 0 RPM (min =0 RPM) CPU Temperature: +62.0°C (high = +90.0°C, crit = +125.0°C) MB Temperature:+49.0°C (high = +70.0°C, crit = +125.0°C) Power Temperature: +24.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +125.0°C) The first thing that jumps out at me is that I think I need a new PSU! How is this machine even running if 3 of the 4 voltages are low? The second thing is that the temps are just fine. So why do I keep getting these messages in the logs? Perhaps because the power rails are low? The chassis and power fans are 2 wire so no data. lshw dumps a lot of information. Anything in particular you are looking for? I think I have solved my lockup problem. I'll write a separate post about that. Thanks, Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: kernel crash [SOLVED]
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:07:18 +0300 Gilboa Davara gilb...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 09:44 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote: I leave my computer on 24/7 so that my backups can run at night. Lately, it has been crashing during the night usually leaving no trace of what happened. Last night it crashed but left this in /var/log/messages: Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: INFO: task kjournald:1960 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: echo 0 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs disables this message. Could a hard drive get shut down because it was getting too hot? What would be a normal temp for a hard drive that has just completed a backup? 124C seems really hot. The HD cooling fan had been broken so I replaced it this past weekend but it doesn't seem to have helped. Too late? Permanent HD damage already done? Any other comments or suggestions? Hello Steve, This is not a crash. The kjournald kernel process (which handles various file-system task). You assumption that the HD went into some type of sleep/suspend mode during write sounds reasonable to me. My machine locked up again yesterday evening and my inner Grissom had been nagging me all day. Something just didn't make sense. If it was a temperature problem, then why did it always happen after long periods of inactivity and usually at night when the temperatures should be at their coolest? I went back and looked at the logs from yesterday. This time I found that the last log written was pm-suspend.log. (Ah-ha!) At the bottom of this log are these lines: ... /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/98smart-kernel-video suspend suspend: success. /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99hd-apm-restore.hook suspend suspend: Advanced Power Management not supported by device sdc. Advanced Power Management not supported by device sda. Advanced Power Management not supported by device sdb. success. /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99video suspend suspend: kernel.acpi_video_flags = 0 success. Tue Aug 17 21:42:23 EDT 2010: performing suspend I found that I have 2 screensavers enabled, an X screensaver and a GNOME screensaver. One of them had power management enabled and set to suspend after 2 hrs of inactivity. I disabled the X screensaver and disabled power management. Last night the machine ran all night with no problems. It looks like the power management was able to put the disks to sleep but not wake them up because power management is not supported by the disks. This problems started a few weeks ago so I suspect an update of screensaver on Aug 6 started the problem. So nothing to do with overheating but I am learning more about smartd. Steve. -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
kernel crash
I leave my computer on 24/7 so that my backups can run at night. Lately, it has been crashing during the night usually leaving no trace of what happened. Last night it crashed but left this in /var/log/messages: Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: INFO: task kjournald:1960 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: echo 0 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs disables this message. Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: kjournald D 2743 0 1960 2 0x0080 Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: cf98fd9c 0046 ff2f442e 2743 00032558 f15c756c cf82d400 Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: c0a5e6ac c0a63140 f15c756c c0a63140 c0a63140 cf98fd74 c05b61ef f1714e18 Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: 0001 2743 f15c72c0 b39690c0 1b48082c f6630a60 c2208140 Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: Call Trace: Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: [c05b61ef] ? cfq_may_queue+0x48/0xa8 Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: [c0793ef7] io_schedule+0x5f/0x98 Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: [c05ac02f] get_request_wait+0xc7/0x13c Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: [c0454641] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34 Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: [c05ac4a4] __make_request+0x27f/0x386 Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: [c04cebd4] ? __slab_alloc+0x269/0x3f6 Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: [c05ab011] generic_make_request+0x286/0x2d0 Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: [c04a77e5] ? mempool_alloc_slab+0x13/0x15 Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: [c04a78b1] ? mempool_alloc+0x5c/0xf2 Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: [c05ab122] submit_bio+0xc7/0xe0 Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: [c04fc9d3] ? bio_alloc_bioset+0x2a/0xb9 Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: [c04f9038] submit_bh+0xf4/0x114 Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: [c0562f74] journal_commit_transaction+0x38b/0xcc7 Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: [c044747a] ? lock_timer_base+0x26/0x45 Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: [c0447696] ? try_to_del_timer_sync+0x5e/0x66 Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: [c0565f1d] kjournald+0xb8/0x1cc Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: [c0454641] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34 Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: [c0565e65] ? kjournald+0x0/0x1cc Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: [c0454409] kthread+0x64/0x69 Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: [c04543a5] ? kthread+0x0/0x69 Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: [c04041e7] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 This happened in the middle of the backup which started at 1:00am and finished (successfully) at 1:28am so perhaps the backup blocked the kjournald process but it didn't crash the computer because there are later messages in the backup log and the messages file. The last entry in the messages file is: Aug 17 02:03:55 steve smartd[2347]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Prefailure Attribute: 3 Spin_Up_Time changed from 167 to 168 Aug 17 02:03:55 steve smartd[2347]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 122 to 124 Could a hard drive get shut down because it was getting too hot? What would be a normal temp for a hard drive that has just completed a backup? 124C seems really hot. The HD cooling fan had been broken so I replaced it this past weekend but it doesn't seem to have helped. Too late? Permanent HD damage already done? Any other comments or suggestions? Thanks Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: kernel crash
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:07:18 +0300 Gilboa Davara gilb...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 09:44 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote: I leave my computer on 24/7 so that my backups can run at night. Lately, it has been crashing during the night usually leaving no trace of what happened. Last night it crashed but left this in /var/log/messages: Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: INFO: task kjournald:1960 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: echo 0 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs disables this message. Could a hard drive get shut down because it was getting too hot? What would be a normal temp for a hard drive that has just completed a backup? 124C seems really hot. The HD cooling fan had been broken so I replaced it this past weekend but it doesn't seem to have helped. Too late? Permanent HD damage already done? Any other comments or suggestions? Hello Steve, This is not a crash. The kjournald kernel process (which handles various file-system task). You assumption that the HD went into some type of sleep/suspend mode during write sounds reasonable to me. 124C seems -very- hot. Even during heavy I/O. Two things spring into mind: A. Is it a normal desktop SATA drive or high-speed SCSI/SAS drive? B. Please post the SMART log of the drive. (smartctl -a /dev/sdX). - Gilboa Hello Gilboa, Yes I realize that it was not a crash. When I first saw the kernel messages I thought it was and started writing the e-mail. I neglected to correct the subject line after I actually read the messages. Sorry about that. I had already run the command: smartctl -t long /dev/sdb before I got your reply. The results should be ready soon. I've been looking at my logs some more. I don't understand these messages: Aug 17 10:30:50 steve kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 455) Aug 17 10:30:50 steve kernel: CPU1: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 455) Aug 17 10:30:50 steve kernel: CPU1: Temperature/speed normal Aug 17 10:30:50 steve kernel: CPU0: Temperature/speed normal These messages are repeated every hour or so. It seems unlikely that every time the threshold is exceeded, it immediately (within one second) drops back again. What is going on here? The drive is an old IDE drive: WDC WD1600JB-00F Thanks, Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: kernel crash
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:05:44 -0400 Steve Blackwell zep...@cfl.rr.com wrote: On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:07:18 +0300 Gilboa Davara gilb...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 09:44 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote: I leave my computer on 24/7 so that my backups can run at night. Lately, it has been crashing during the night usually leaving no trace of what happened. Last night it crashed but left this in /var/log/messages: Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: INFO: task kjournald:1960 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Aug 17 01:04:56 steve kernel: echo 0 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs disables this message. Could a hard drive get shut down because it was getting too hot? What would be a normal temp for a hard drive that has just completed a backup? 124C seems really hot. The HD cooling fan had been broken so I replaced it this past weekend but it doesn't seem to have helped. Too late? Permanent HD damage already done? Any other comments or suggestions? Hello Steve, This is not a crash. The kjournald kernel process (which handles various file-system task). You assumption that the HD went into some type of sleep/suspend mode during write sounds reasonable to me. 124C seems -very- hot. Even during heavy I/O. Two things spring into mind: A. Is it a normal desktop SATA drive or high-speed SCSI/SAS drive? B. Please post the SMART log of the drive. (smartctl -a /dev/sdX). - Gilboa Hello Gilboa, Yes I realize that it was not a crash. When I first saw the kernel messages I thought it was and started writing the e-mail. I neglected to correct the subject line after I actually read the messages. Sorry about that. I had already run the command: smartctl -t long /dev/sdb before I got your reply. The results should be ready soon. I've been looking at my logs some more. I don't understand these messages: Aug 17 10:30:50 steve kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 455) Aug 17 10:30:50 steve kernel: CPU1: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 455) Aug 17 10:30:50 steve kernel: CPU1: Temperature/speed normal Aug 17 10:30:50 steve kernel: CPU0: Temperature/speed normal These messages are repeated every hour or so. It seems unlikely that every time the threshold is exceeded, it immediately (within one second) drops back again. What is going on here? The drive is an old IDE drive: WDC WD1600JB-00F Thanks, Steve Well, the long self test passed. Here is the result of # smartctl -a /dev/sdb smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Caviar SE family Device Model: WDC WD1600JB-00FUA0 Serial Number:WD-WCAES1024695 Firmware Version: 15.05R15 User Capacity:160,041,885,696 bytes Device is:In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 6 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is:Tue Aug 17 12:36:35 2010 EDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x85) Offline data collection activity was aborted by an interrupting command from host. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (5073) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities:(0x79) SMART execute Offline immediate. No Auto Offline data collection support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities:(0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability:(0x01) Error logging supported. No General Purpose Logging support. Short self-test routine recommended polling time:( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time:( 67
Re: kernel crash
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 02:12:16 +0930 Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 12:05 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote: I've been looking at my logs some more. I don't understand these messages: Aug 17 10:30:50 steve kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 455) Aug 17 10:30:50 steve kernel: CPU1: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 455) Aug 17 10:30:50 steve kernel: CPU1: Temperature/speed normal Aug 17 10:30:50 steve kernel: CPU0: Temperature/speed normal And the CPU overheating as well as your hard drive? Is the computer in a hot room? Are the fans working? Is the ventilation blocked? Is the computer wedged in between things that restrict airflow? Are things full of fluff and dust? Well it would seems so but I don't trust the messages. It doesn't seem reasonable that the CPUs go overtemp and then immediately cool down enough to be OK. As for your other questions, I spent the weekend replacing a broken cooling fan, removing the dust build-up, rearranging the internal components to maximize the space between them and rearranging my office to place the computer in a more open space. None of these actions appear to have helped. Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
X-chat question
I wanted to join an IRC chat on irc.gnome.org so I fired up XChat-GNOME (v0.26.1) and got the list of servers. The problem is irc.gnome.org is not on the list! I was able to get to it by starting Firefox and entering irc://irc.gnome.org in the locator bar which started another XChat-GNOME with the server already selected. So my question is: how do I get to the server I want without starting Firefox if that server is not in the xchat server list? Just curious. Steve. -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: X-chat question
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:45:49 +0100 Andrew Haley a...@redhat.com wrote: On 07/22/2010 02:40 PM, Steve Blackwell wrote: I wanted to join an IRC chat on irc.gnome.org so I fired up XChat-GNOME (v0.26.1) and got the list of servers. The problem is irc.gnome.org is not on the list! I was able to get to it by starting Firefox and entering irc://irc.gnome.org in the locator bar which started another XChat-GNOME with the server already selected. So my question is: how do I get to the server I want without starting Firefox if that server is not in the xchat server list? XChatNetwork ListAdd No such option. At least not in v0.26.1 (F12) When you 1st start up XChat-Gnome and you close the server list that pops up because the server I want is not listed, then all the options under Network (Reconnect, Disconnect, Close Channels) are all greyed out. There is no Network List menu option. Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: X-chat question
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:15:38 +0100 Andrew Haley a...@redhat.com wrote: On 07/22/2010 03:07 PM, Steve Blackwell wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:45:49 +0100 Andrew Haley a...@redhat.com wrote: On 07/22/2010 02:40 PM, Steve Blackwell wrote: I wanted to join an IRC chat on irc.gnome.org so I fired up XChat-GNOME (v0.26.1) and got the list of servers. The problem is irc.gnome.org is not on the list! I was able to get to it by starting Firefox and entering irc://irc.gnome.org in the locator bar which started another XChat-GNOME with the server already selected. So my question is: how do I get to the server I want without starting Firefox if that server is not in the xchat server list? XChatNetwork ListAdd No such option. At least not in v0.26.1 (F12) When you 1st start up XChat-Gnome and you close the server list that pops up because the server I want is not listed, then all the options under Network (Reconnect, Disconnect, Close Channels) are all greyed out. There is no Network List menu option. Ah, OK. I just installed xchat-gnome, and I have the same problem. I'd just delete it and use xchat. You can add a server with EditPreferencesNetworks. Andrew. Thanks, that works. Isn't it a little odd that the GNOME xchat does not include their own server? Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Preupgrade F11 --- F12 ?
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:49:26 -0700 Dave Stevens g...@uniserve.com wrote: Quoting Peter Diercks di-lis...@jls-hh.de: Hello List, I am running a server under F11. It is a remote machine which I have no physical access to. It has a network connection. I wanted to upgrade to F12 using preupgrade again, but this time I am afraid I'll run into problems due to the size of /boot (194M, 153M free space). Does anybody know if this issue has been fixed? Greetings, Peter I just upgraded F11 top F12 using preupgrade and had a too-small /boot, it doesn't seem to have been a problem, as I recall the installer figured out that there wasn't enough space and used a workaround, no intervention on my part needed. Pretty nice. Dave Likewise. I upgraded from F11-F12 with a boot size of 190M. I got messages about boot being to small but I continued and it all worked out. Good luck. Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Missing ephiphany plugin?
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 10:44:41 +0200 Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:06:08 +0200, birger wrote: On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 14:33 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote: Perhaps it is because no one cares? Epiphany wouldn't exist if nobody cared. I guess it's just that epiphany isn't used by a lot of those who frequent this mailing list. There don't seem to be any epiphany maintainers here either. bz it ( http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs_and_feature_requests ). That will reach the Fedora package maintainer. Or go upstream to find the epiphany developers. http://projects.gnome.org/epiphany/ birger Check out http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/epiphany It also contains a direct link for opening a new ticket quickly. Thanks for the replies. I've always liked epiphany; it's clean and simple. However it's not much use if it doesn't work! Based on the link you gave me it looks like they have lots of crash bugs. I signed up to the mailing list. Hopefully I can get some help there. Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Missing ephiphany plugin?
On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 22:09:31 -0400 Steve Blackwell zep...@cfl.rr.com wrote: I think I'm missing a plugin or two for ephiphany. After upgrading from F11-F12 some web pages display blank areas where (presumably) a picture should be. An example is http://www.licklibrary.com/classifieds_rolandad.aspx BTW this page is OK in Firefox. Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: F12 updates having a slow week?
On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 17:42:52 +0900 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: Yesterday, and, I think, the day before, yum update said no updates. The day before that, and today, less than 10 MB, when I'm accustomed to 60M or 120M or so. Slow week for updates, or have I got a rogue mirror in my cache? Joel Rees My vote is for just slow. I upgraded from F11-F12 a few days ago and I have had only one update since. Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Question on /etc/hosts
On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 09:32:41 +0900 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 4, 2010, at 11:34 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: 8-- What I'm trying to figure out is how to tell a host who it is when assigning DHCP, without using internal DNS. It seems like a waste to run a local name server on every portable machine I have, just so it doesn't forget who it is when it's on the road. Joel Rees Is this what you're looking for? Create a file /etc/dhclient.conf containing: send host-name your-host-name; Check out man dhclient.conf for details and don't forget the semi-colon. Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Missing ephiphany plugin?
I think I'm missing a plugin or two for ephiphany. After upgrading from F11-F12 some web pages display blank areas where (presumably) a picture should be. An example is http://www.licklibrary.com/classifieds_rolandad.aspx The main part of the page is blank for me. It used to work in F11. Is it even called ephiphany any more? Help-About shows Web Browser 2.28.2. Typing about:plugins in the location bar gives me an empty page and yet /usr/lib/plugins has these: # ls /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins libflashplayer.so librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so libtotem-gmp-plugin.solibtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so libjavaplugin.so libtotem-cone-plugin.so libtotem-mully-plugin.so mozplugger.so What am I missing? Thanks, Steve -- Changing lives one card at a time http://www.send1cardnow.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Fw: Can't start X on F12 [SOLVED]
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preupgrade failure
Time to upgrade from f11 to f12. Preupgrade failed and my question is
Is it OK to try again or will I end up in some screwed up state
halfway between f11 and f12?
Here is the output of preupgrade with some of my comments embedded.
Thanks,
Steve
# preupgrade
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py:203: UserWarning:
Use .preconf instead of passing args to _getConfig
warnings.warn('Use .preconf instead of passing args to _getConfig')
Loaded plugins: blacklist, dellsysidplugin2, fastestmirror,
refresh-packagekit, : whiteout preupgrade-main (mirrorlist) url:
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-12arch=$basearch
now:
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-12arch=i386
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* fedora: ftp.usf.edu
* livna: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de
* rpmfusion-free: mirror.liberty.edu
* rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.liberty.edu
* rpmfusion-nonfree: mirror.liberty.edu
* rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.liberty.edu
* updates: ftp.usf.edu
preupgrade (mirrorlist)
url:
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/12/Fedora/$basearch/os
now:
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/12/Fedora/i386/os
Checking for new repos for mirrors
* preupgrade-main: ftp.usf.edu
preupgrade-adobe-linux-i386 (baseurl)
url: http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/
now: http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/
Checking for new repos for mirrors
preupgrade-fedora (mirrorlist)
url:
https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-12arch=i386
now:
https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-12arch=i386
Checking for new repos for mirrors preupgrade-livna (mirrorlist) url:
http://rpm.livna.org/mirrorlist now: http://rpm.livna.org/mirrorlist
Checking for new repos for mirrors
* preupgrade-fedora: ftp.usf.edu
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://rpm.livna.org/mirrorlist error was
[Errno 4] IOError: urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused
Can't set up new repo preupgrade-livna - removing
Hmmm... Continuing
preupgrade-rpmfusion-free (mirrorlist)
url:
http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=free-fedora-12arch=i386
now:
http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=free-fedora-12arch=i386
Checking for new repos for mirrors preupgrade-rpmfusion-free-updates
(mirrorlist) url:
http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=free-fedora-updates-released-12arch=i386
now:
http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=free-fedora-updates-released-12arch=i386
Checking for new repos for mirrors
* preupgrade-rpmfusion-free: mirror.liberty.edu
preupgrade-rpmfusion-nonfree (mirrorlist)
url:
http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=nonfree-fedora-12arch=i386
now:
http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=nonfree-fedora-12arch=i386
Checking for new repos for mirrors
* preupgrade-rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.liberty.edu
preupgrade-rpmfusion-nonfree-updates (mirrorlist)
url:
http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=nonfree-fedora-updates-released-12arch=i386
now:
http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=nonfree-fedora-updates-released-12arch=i386
Checking for new repos for mirrors
* preupgrade-rpmfusion-nonfree: mirror.liberty.edu
preupgrade-updates (mirrorlist)
url:
https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f12arch=i386
now:
https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f12arch=i386
Checking for new repos for mirrors
* preupgrade-rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.liberty.edu
Fetched treeinfo from
http://mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/releases/12/Fedora/i386/os//.treeinfo
treeinfo timestamp: Sun Nov 8 18:54:19 2009 Not enough space
in /boot/upgrade to download install.img.
===
Again, Hmmm... http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PreUpgrade says
The installer will need approximately 26M of free space in /boot.
# df -h /boot
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 190M 22M 159M 13% /boot
So I should have enough space right? Anyhow, I clicked continue since I
have a wired connection.
Continuing further.
Checking for new repos for mirrors
* preupgrade-updates: ftp.usf.edu
failure: repodata/filelists.sqlite.bz2 from
preupgrade-rpmfusion-free-updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
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Re: logwatch schedule control
On Wed, 12 May 2010 15:31:07 -0700 jack craig jcr...@extraview.com wrote: AARRGGg! No wonder i couldnt find the control, its out of control!!! Thx Tom! On 05/12/2010 03:03 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2010 14:33:18 -0700 jack craig wrote: I am assuming its whatever drives /etc/cron.daily, but where??? You are suffering from anacron's disease :-). In recent fedoras all the default /etc/cron.* jobs are now driven by anacron from the /etc/anacrontab file and the old /etc/crontab file is empty by default. Anacron just runs things at some random time when it happens to think of it, which drives me crazy (because it always manages to pick a inappropriate time due to Murphy's Law). I move all the entries out of /etc/anacrontab, given them specific times to run, and format them to go in the /etc/crontab file. I run nothing in anacron (and every release it gets harder and harder to turn it off). Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacron for a brief explanation of anacron. Steve -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Breakin attempts
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:33:11 -0400 Steve Blackwell zep...@cfl.rr.com wrote: I was looking at my logwatch mail and saw: Failed logins from: 62.39.117.140 (140.117.39-62.rev.gaoland.net): 139 times 220.128.67.41: 9 times Illegal users from: 62.39.117.140 (140.117.39-62.rev.gaoland.net): 229 times 220.128.67.41: 2 times Received disconnect: 11: Bye Bye : 379 Time(s) so it appears that someone was trying to break in to my machine. I googled rev.gaoland.net (http://whois.domaintools.com/gaoland.net) and it appears to be some kind of French ISP. Is there some place to report this? Steve rkhunter is reporting this: -- Start Rootkit Hunter Scan -- Warning: Suspicious file types found in /dev: /dev/shm/mono-shared-500-shared_fileshare-steve.blackwell-Linux-i686-36-12-0:data /dev/shm/mono-shared-500-shared_data-steve.blackwell-Linux-i686-312-12-0:data /dev/shm/mono.2812: data process 2812 is tomboy so that should be OK. What are the other 2? Normal? OK to whitelist them? Thanks, Steve -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Lexmark printer
My wife just got a new Lexmark X2670 all-in-one printer with her new laptop that we want to share. I can't find any drivers for it for F11. Does anyone else have this printer and if so have you found a way to make it work? Thanks, Steve -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Lexmark printer
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:00:52 +0200 Mohamed El Morabity pikachu.2...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/4/20 Steve Blackwell zep...@cfl.rr.com My wife just got a new Lexmark X2670 all-in-one printer with her new laptop that we want to share. I can't find any drivers for it for F11. Does anyone else have this printer and if so have you found a way to make it work? Thanks, Steve -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Hi, Linux drivers seem to be available on the Lexmark web site: http://md.lexmark.com/md4?dest=downloadslang=encountry=en_USproductID=4922 (see the Downloads tab) Anyway only 32-bit RPMs are available. I didn't test them, no garranty that dependancies for them are OK for Fedora 11. Thanks for the link. I downloaded lexmark-inkjet-08-driver-1.0-1.i386.rpm.sh and ran it and I can report that both the printer and the scanner work - at least with the very limited testing I have done so far. Steve. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Breakin attempts
I was looking at my logwatch mail and saw: Failed logins from: 62.39.117.140 (140.117.39-62.rev.gaoland.net): 139 times 220.128.67.41: 9 times Illegal users from: 62.39.117.140 (140.117.39-62.rev.gaoland.net): 229 times 220.128.67.41: 2 times Received disconnect: 11: Bye Bye : 379 Time(s) so it appears that someone was trying to break in to my machine. I googled rev.gaoland.net (http://whois.domaintools.com/gaoland.net) and it appears to be some kind of French ISP. Is there some place to report this? Steve -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
How to disable panel context menus
The subject says it all - How do I prevent the right mouse button context menu from appearing from a panel, specifically the bottom panel. Thanks, Steve -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: How to disable panel context menus
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:41:23 -0600 Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net wrote: On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 12:31 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote: The subject says it all - How do I prevent the right mouse button context menu from appearing from a panel, specifically the bottom panel. yum install gconf-editor gconf-editor Apps - Panel - Global - locked_down killall gnome-panel Well, that is certainly better but I'm now left with a menu that has 2 entries: help and about. I'd like to get rid of all of it if possible. Thanks, Steve -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
