Final Details of 'GNU/Linux User Group of KGEC'
by Rohit Gupta
Date of inauguration Followed by FOSS Events: 18th April, 2009
1. The 'GNU/Linux User Group of KGEC' will be the support and
development group for FOSS (Free and Open Source Software).
2. The membership of 'GNU/Linux User Group of KGEC' is open to all,
even from other colleges.
3. A candidate will have to Register for membership and join the
mailing list of 'GNU/Linux User Group of KGEC' to be considered as a member.
Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/kgeclug
After completing this process, the candidate will be given the membership
certificate.
4. The members of the 'GNU/Linux User Group of KGEC' can request free
media (CD's and DVD's) of any available Linux Distribution to the
core-committee.
5. The members of 'GNU/Linux User Group of KGEC' can post all their
Linux related problems in the Mailing List and can also help with the
solution of others problem. The Mailing List also has experts from the FOSS
community to guide and help with the solution.
6. There will be a core-committee of 'GNU/Linux User Group of KGEC'
whose members will be sound in Technical Skill.
7. The core-committee will help the Linux users (support) and will use
their skills for contribution to FOSS community (Development).
8. The core-committee members will take decisions of 'GNU/Linux User
Group of KGEC' and carry on FOSS Events.
9. The core-committee members will install and maintain few computers
assigned to the 'GNU/Linux User Group of KGEC' in Library and Computer Labs
of KGEC.
10. The core-committee members will do their work after the college hour
(since it is branch and year independent).
11. The membership of core-committee is open to all KGEC Students.
12. A candidate can get the membership of the core-committee after
completing the following process:
a. The candidate will have to be a member of 'GNU/Linux User Group of
KGEC'.
b. The candidate will have to register for membership in core-committee.
c. The candidate will have to actively participate and work under the
guidance of the existing core committee.
d. After a month, the candidate will be considered a member of the
core-committee if the existing core-committee feels that the candidate has
worked for the core-committee and is possessing necessary technical skills
for the post. Skills Required:
i) The candidate should be able to perform installation and configure a
Linux System and use it for all basic needs (music, internet, LAN, CD
writing, etc)
ii) The candidate should have the knowledge of partitioning and Linux
file-systems.
iii) The candidate should be able to solve basic problems of users.
e. The candidate will be given the core-committee membership
certificate.
f. If the candidate is still not well suited for the post, he/she will
have to continue his/her activities with the core-committee for few more
days as a non core-committee member. Eventually the membership will be
approved.
13. The Secretary will be the head of core-committee.
14. The President will be the head of 'GNU/Linux User Group of KGEC'.
15. The Treasurer will be in charge of all the Funds of 'GNU/Linux User
Group of KGEC'.
Secretary: Rohit Gupta (IT-2nd year, KGEC)
President: Mr. Kousik Dasgupta (Lecturer, Dept of CSE)
Treasurer: Prof. Satadal Mal (HOD, Dept. of EE)
No. of Computers expected and Details:
a) 1 (one) in Library (already installed).
b) 5 (Five) from every Department (CSE, EE, IT, ME, ECE, MCA).
c) The maintainance of computers will be done after college hours (5 pm).
d)Each computer will have the label as "Maintained by GNU/LUG of KGEC".
Work already Done:
1) Having Successfully conducting an installfest in KGEC. Details:
http://kgeclug.blog.co.in/
Photo Gallery:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/kgec/
http://picasaweb.google.co.in/kgeclug/KGECInstallfest09
http://www.flickr.com/photos/indradg/sets/72157614247371239/
2) Setting up a computer in the college Library which has public access with
a poster as 'Maintained by GNU/Linux User Group of KGEC'.
3) Starting the Linux For You Magazine in college. Starting this month
(April '09).
4) We have the full fedora repository (25.7 GB) for Intel architecture. So
no internet connection required for installation of additional software.
5) We have loads of many other different distributions (ubuntu, suse,
slackware, etc).
6) The setting up of full fedora repo in RBC and VC.
Membership Fees:
1. For membership of 'GNU/Linux User Group of KGEC' : Rs. 60
2. For membership in core-committee of 'GNU/Linux User Group of KGEC' :
Rs. 30
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Re: [fedora-india] Fedora 11 Beta - Installation Issue
by Gaurav Prabhu
Cross posting? What does that means? I don't know. Will you please explain, so that I can pevent it in future.
--- On Sun, 5/4/09, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
From: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Re: [fedora-india] Fedora 11 Beta - Installation Issue
To: fedora-india(a)redhat.com
Cc: "Fedora Ambassador List" <fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com>
Date: Sunday, 5 April, 2009, 8:08 AM
Gaurav Prabhu wrote:
> Hello,
> I went about Installing Fedora 11 Beta, just a few minutes ago but was
> unable to boot from the Fedora 11 Beta KDE LIVE CD.
>
> After loading the vmlinuz & initrd0.img.... It gave the following error.
>
> ACPI : Denied BIOS AML access to invalid port 0x40+0x2 (ELCR)
>
> After waiting for a while the CD proceeded showing me the progress bars,
> but once the bar gets to full progress, the CD fails to go any further.
>
> I tried prefixing "noacpi" just after the rhgb quiet, but no use.
>
> Any solutions?
Use fedora-test list for discussions about bugs in development snapshots
and please avoid cross posting to other lists. Thanks.
Rahul
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Fedora 11 Beta - Installation Issue
by Gaurav Prabhu
Hello,
I went about Installing Fedora 11 Beta, just a few minutes ago but was unable to boot from the Fedora 11 Beta KDE LIVE CD.
After loading the vmlinuz & initrd0.img.... It gave the following error.
ACPI : Denied BIOS AML access to invalid port 0x40+0x2 (ELCR)
After waiting for a while the CD proceeded showing me the progress bars, but once the bar gets to full progress, the CD fails to go any further.
I tried prefixing "noacpi" just after the rhgb quiet, but no use.
Any solutions?
Regards,
Gaurav Prabhu
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fedora freemedia india
by Arnav Kalra
it is useless to have a freemedia system like ubuntu as people just order
and forget. we may also make a budget that each local contact gets a central
copy and a budget of maybe 200 inr to distribute more rest from contact's
pocket and make a point for the contact to know if requester's gonna use it
or not
arnav kalra (fedora inside)
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installation problem through yum
by Rohit Gupta
I recently installed fedora in our EE HOD (prof. SM) computer and We
are having the following problem.
I have connected the computer through local mirror and everything gets
downloaded, dependencies resolved. It just cannot install the
package.
[root@satadal satadal]# yum install vlc
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30975) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal
error, run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30975)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 229, in user_main
errcode = main(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 84, in main
base.getOptionsConfig(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 184, in getOptionsConfig
enabled_plugins=self.optparser._splitArg(opts.enableplugins))
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 192,
in _getConfig
self._conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 758, in
readMainConfig
yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot,
startupconf.distroverpkg)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 828, in
_getsysver
idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg)
TypeError: rpmdb open failed
[root@satadal satadal]#
I also tried with the simple rpm file.
[root@satadal Download]# rpm -Uvh fuse-sshfs-2.1-1.fc10.i386.rpm
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30975) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal
error, run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30975)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
warning: fuse-sshfs-2.1-1.fc10.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature:
NOKEY, key ID 4ebfc273
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30975) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal
error, run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
[root@satadal Download]#
Please add CC while replying as : rohit.kgec(a)gmail.com
Regards:
Rohit Gupta
KGEC
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Re: [Ambassadors] Open Source program :FOSS
by susmit shannigrahi
2009/4/1 Rachit Gupta <rachit.tech(a)gmail.com>:
> Dear ambassadors,
>
> I am rachit gupta , Fedora ambassador of VIT University,Vellore,I have
> recently joined fedora ambassador program, i wish to launch a three day
> event dedicated to FOSS.i termed it FOSS-Kriti
Thanks for the initiative.
Please update the fedora event page as well.
This is a must.
> Following will be the highlights of the event :
>
> day 1: introduction t/o fedora-Aim and objectives , covering basic idea of
> Open Source.this will be followed by fedora installation camp which will run
> for all the three day.
Fiine.
> day 2: bringing the developers and linux newbies together , this session
> will have seminars and guest lectures from linux experts from industry and
> educational institute.session will start with comparing features and powers
> of linux and other operating system.some most hot topic of open source
> technology and open source source software support.
Guest lectures on what topic? Can you please update on this?
> day 3: dedicated to give some hands on experience to linux newbies, session
> will include Linux kernel hack workshop and beagle hack workshop.
Are you sure you want to frighten newbies? ;)
They learn installation on 11th and kernel hack on 13th?
Please give this another thought.
> event planning is under progress.
>
> This event will be conducted in VIT University Vellore
> Tentiative dates : 10th,11th and 12th april.
>
> We will be requiring aprox 50 fedora DVD,respected authority please guide me
> , to get resources early in advance.conformation about he event will be
> mailed soon with event schedule.
For this, we need shall be needing confirmation and entry in the
fedora event page.
> It will be very gr8 if other regional ambassador , near to Vellore, India
> could join us.
I am cc'ing fedora-india and satish, who is also from vellore.
Thanks.
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Regards,
Susmit.
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Fedora Freemedia India, A plan.
by susmit shannigrahi
Hi,
There are a lot of requests for fedora freemedia.
What I did last month for kolkata was I provided a few DVDs to
Dipanjan and asked people to collect personally.
Of the 19 requests we got, only 5 collected personally.
After tomorrow, I am going to flag them invalid. The current system is
such that even if they request DVD next month, they will be flagged as
duplicate.
What we can do is to make it compulsory to collect the DVD personally
if there is an ambassador in locality.
I guess this way, we may cut down the "I-request-whatever-I-get-free" people.
Your thoughts?
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Susmit.
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