VNC development plan - discuss
by Adam Tkac
Hi all,
I did thinking about next development on vnc bits. Fedora 7 has three
vnc servers - GNOME's vino, KDE's krfb and headless Xvnc with module to
X. I'm not sure that we really need three different vnc servers in
distribution. krfb and vino are very simillar. Both of these export real
display. I think we could try substitute this two servers by one - for
example x11vnc (http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/). x11vnc has more
features than actual "real desktop" servers. So two programs could be
removed and one added => cost of maintaining and bugfixing could be
lower. In next stage we could discuss about standardized RFB protocol
library which could be used by all vnc servers in distro. In the end we
could have one rfb library which will be used by all servers (and
viewers), one real server, one virtual server and X module. What do you
think about this idea?
Regards, Adam
17 years, 1 month
speaking of time zones -- syslogd 1.4.1 timezone behavior odd....
by Matthew Miller
The frenzy of people auditing their systems for timezone-change compliance
has brought this to my attention. One deficiency of the syslog format is
that it doesn't record the timezone (particularly annoying around the DST
change). But to compound this, the datestamp recorded from local syslog
calls is apparently based on whatever the calling client has their timezone
set as. Thus, you can do:
TZ="UTC+23:56" logger "Look! I'm logging from yesterday!"
if you want.
Apparently, there's a patch for this behavior in the perennially not
released sysklogd 1.4.2 (what's up with that?). I think we should consider
backporting this to Fedora. Comments?
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=231326>
--
Matthew Miller mattdm(a)mattdm.org <http://mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
17 years, 1 month
freeze during install
by Axel
I downloaded boot iso from ftp.crihan.fr mirror and tried to make a
fresh install of FC7. Boot goes well and installation wizard starts
without problem.
After the dependancies computation and the / & swap format the install
stop. No "lock", GUI can be use but the install waits with a progress
bar which doesn'nt progress anymore.
In one of the tty I see the message "No handler could be found for
yum.Yumbase" or something like that.
Is that a known problem for test 2 or maybe I forgot something ?
Regards
Axel
17 years, 1 month
KDE-Live-Spin
by Sebastian Vahl
Hi.
I don't know if somebody is working on this but I've created a live cd
with KDE for fc6-i386 with the livecd-tools. So far it seems to work
quite fine.
The livecd-files based on the ones from David Zeuthen [1]. I've just
created a config for a kde live spin which requires livecd-base-package.
What I have done:
- created 20-fedora-livecd-kde.conf
- removed most gnome packages and gnome settings
- included kde packages [2] (just to fill the cd)
- not included gdm to start kdm automatically
- inserted "startkde" in /home/fedora/.xsession
- made autologin for user "fedora" work with kdm
- also set user "fedora" as default and recent user (if somebody logs
out of kde)
- replaced redhat-web.desktop and redhat-email.desktop with "konqueror
--profile webbrowsing" and kmail in kicker (firefox and
evolution are not included)
The size of the cd is actually ~570 MB.
The files to create the live cd could be found here:
http://www.deadbabylon.de/fedora/livecd/
Perhaps this could be a start for someone (eg. the KDE-SIG?).
Sebastian
[1] http://people.redhat.com/davidz/livecd/i386/
[2] http://www.deadbabylon.de/fedora/livecd/20-fedora-livecd-kde.conf
17 years, 1 month
spamassassin in rawhide buid problem
by Warren Togami
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Mail::SpamAssassin
Makefile written by ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.30
+ /usr/bin/make 'SSLCFLAGS=-DSPAMC_SSL -I/usr/kerberos/include'
'OPTIMIZE=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions
-fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic'
make: *** No rule to make target
`/usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE/config.h', needed
by `Makefile'. Stop.
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.48771 (%build)
http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/spamassassin/
spamassassin-3.2.0-pre2 builds on FC6, but fails here in F7. I am
currently traveling without access to a rawhide machine. Anybody have
any idea what could be causing this build failure?
Warren Togami
wtogami(a)redhat.com
17 years, 1 month
Missing P-ATA CDROM support in Fedora 7 Test 2 ?
by Axel
Hello
I just tried to install Fedora 7 with "cdrom" as packages support, but
no drives seems to be detected. I use a P-ATA drive on a Nforce4-4x
powered motherboard (Asus K8N4-E Deluxe) and didn't found any suitable
driver in the list (maybe I missed it ?).
Anyway, I will try network install, I just post this message for
information.
Regards.
17 years, 1 month
how to manage the package specific accounts
by Akira TAGOH
Hi,
Some packages are creating the system account for their
programs/deamons in the scriptlet with the specific user
id. So how does it actually prevent the duplicate user id
between the packages? I just wanted to know if there are
any policy/guildeline or the management system in Fedora for
the user id.
--
Akira TAGOH
17 years, 1 month
Hal and device identification
by Mike McGrath
I've got a usb disk, hal finds it and identifies it as a JUMPDRIVE
ELITE. This value is not in /usr/share/hwdata/usb.ids. My question is
where did hal get this info, and how can I retrieve it given only the
vendor id and device id (5dc:a400)
------------------------------------------------------------
udi =
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_5dc_a400_00000000000000000001'
info.udi =
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_5dc_a400_00000000000000000001'
(string)
linux.subsystem = 'usb' (string)
linux.hotplug_type = 1 (0x1) (int)
usb_device.bus_number = 5 (0x5) (int)
usb_device.can_wake_up = false (bool)
usb_device.is_self_powered = false (bool)
usb_device.version_bcd = 512 (0x200) (int)
usb_device.speed_bcd = 294912 (0x48000) (int)
usb_device.serial = '00000000000000000001' (string)
usb_device.linux.device_number = 9 (0x9) (int)
usb_device.num_ports = 0 (0x0) (int)
usb_device.max_power = 100 (0x64) (int)
usb_device.device_revision_bcd = 256 (0x100) (int)
info.product = 'JUMPDRIVE ELITE' (string)
usb_device.product = 'JUMPDRIVE ELITE' (string)
info.vendor = 'Lexar Media, Inc.' (string)
usb_device.vendor = 'Lexar Media, Inc.' (string)
usb_device.product_id = 41984 (0xa400) (int)
usb_device.vendor_id = 1500 (0x5dc) (int)
usb_device.device_protocol = 0 (0x0) (int)
usb_device.device_subclass = 0 (0x0) (int)
usb_device.device_class = 0 (0x0) (int)
usb_device.num_interfaces = 1 (0x1) (int)
usb_device.num_configurations = 1 (0x1) (int)
usb_device.configuration_value = 1 (0x1) (int)
usb_device.linux.sysfs_path =
'/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb5/5-4' (string)
info.linux.driver = 'usb' (string)
info.bus = 'usb_device' (string)
info.parent =
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_0_0_0000_00_1d_7' (string)
linux.sysfs_path_device =
'/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb5/5-4' (string)
-Mike
17 years, 1 month
(no subject)
by Artur Bartek
Hello,
lately I found nice stuff
http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/Mac_Menubar_for_GNOME_and_Xfce , but I
can't compile gtk2 with patch need for macmenu and I can't compile macmenu
too;/ I think it's very good thing for the people who migrate from macosx to
fedora ;] Maybe somebody will make a two little packages for fedora
community ?:>
Have a nice day!
Stiffler
17 years, 1 month
Jabber, JIngle, VoIP, telepathy - howto ?
by Anuj Verma (Kevin)
Hello,
I am sorry to post this to devel list, but I guess this should better get
some initial insight & help from developers for now.
I will like to know how to get VoIP working on Fedora using Jabber
clients supported by libjingle & telepathy ?
Please provide some pointers to help me get started.
Kevin
17 years, 1 month