mc - B/W in su - environment using gnome-terminal - Error mesage
by Jim Cornette
I noticed that running mc in a root terminal su- not su without the -
causes mc to be displayed in b/w. I don't see this behavior in a regular
user either.
Running mc in a normal screen shell is displayed in color.
I believe mutt and other programs do the same thing.
running setup displays in color.
Is anyone else seeing something like this?
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I guess no one is having the b/w problem with mc and mutt through
gnome-terminal after su - to root then starting mc.
Additionally, I get this output within the gnome-terminal.
# mc
subshell.c: couldn't open master side of pty
pty_open_master: No such file or directory
Oh well! Is this a bug more apt to be related to mc and mutt,
gnome-terminal or some type of lone configuration on my end. I did not
puroposefully change any of the default configuration files.
Thanks!
Jim
19 years, 9 months
upgrade to latest success except perl
by Harry Putnam
I've taken my update list in bites of 5-7 pkgs and gotten everything
updated. The only outstanding dep problem seems to be the stray
dependancy in vim-enhanced:
(From `yum upgrade perl')
debug dep: vim-enhanced req
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.4/i386-linux-thread-multi - None - 0 Cannot find
a resolution attempting update out of loop on vim-enhanced
Is this just a basic typo in the build of vim-enhanced. Can it be
fixed by a simple edit in spec file?
19 years, 9 months
Still got yum probs on fc3t1 + Evolution 2 beta
by Paul F. Johnson
Hi,
The gtkhtml3/libgtkhtml3 problem is still in rawhide as is the perl
problem. Any ideas when these will be resolved?
There was talk of the first Ev. 2 beta coming available at the back end
of last week. Sorry to be jumping the gun here, but has it materialised?
TTFN
Paul
(looking forward to updating)
--
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ever wanted. One moment to capture or would you just let it slip?" -
Marshall Mathers III (Lose Yourself)
19 years, 9 months
startx vs init 5
by Dwaine Castle
If use init 5 as root to start the GUI the console is error free. If I
execute startx as either root or an ordinary user the console is littered
with error messages mostly xorg config errors and python script errors. I
saw this in FC2 also.
As an experiment I ran all the scripts in the /etc/rc.d/rc5.d and then ran
startx. The error messages were still there. What else does the init 5
command do that might set up the environment to eliminate the errors? And,
shouldn't startx use this environment?
Thank you.
Dwaine
19 years, 9 months
status of USB coldplug? (hotplug for always-plugged-in device)
by John Reiser
What is going on with USB "coldplug"? A device such as a USB scanner does not
have a service dedicated to managing it (like a USB printer usually has CUPS,
for instance), but the scanner often is never unplugged, so the hotplug
machinery never deals with it to identify the correct device name, load
kernel modules, or to re-assign ownership or permissions in order to
facilitate practical usability. The result is that configuring and using
such a scanner often is cumbersome and frustrating. It would be nice
for kudzu/hotplug/usb.agent/whatever to cooperate enough so that this
not-uncommon case "just works".
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19 years, 9 months
GPG signatures
by Mark Haney
When I'm running up2date on FC3T1 I'm getting the kernels but it says there
is no GPG signature on them. Is this correct? Or am I missing something?
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Mark Haney
Network Administrator
Interact Public Safety Systems
19 years, 9 months
FC3T1 works nicely but:
by Jason Dravet
FC3T1 seems stable for me. Kernel is 2.6.7-1.494. The system is mostly
up-to-date as of 7-22 (no glibc-238 stuff).
Now for the few issues I have:
There still is no way to edit the gnome menus.
I am stuck using dial-up. I can connect to my ISP once, then I have to
reboot to connect again. To connect to to my ISP I do /etc/ppp/ppp-on.
Then I do /etc/ppp/ppp-off when I am done. At this point I cannot reconnect
until I reboot. When I try to reconnect I see the following in
/var/log/messages:
Jul 26 08:54:51 excalibur pppd[3664]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0
Jul 26 08:54:51 excalibur pppd[3664]: Removed stale lock on ttyS4 (pid 3279)
Jul 26 08:54:51 excalibur kernel: ttyS4: LSR safety check engaged!
Jul 26 08:54:52 excalibur last message repeated 2 times
Jul 26 08:54:52 excalibur chat[3665]: Can't get terminal parameters:
Input/output error
Jul 26 08:54:52 excalibur pppd[3664]: Connect script failed
Jul 26 08:54:53 excalibur pppd[3664]: Exit.
Jul 26 08:55:19 excalibur pppd[3680]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0
Jul 26 08:55:19 excalibur kernel: ttyS4: LSR safety check engaged!
Jul 26 08:55:20 excalibur chat[3681]: Can't get terminal parameters:
Input/output error
Jul 26 08:55:20 excalibur pppd[3680]: Connect script failed
Jul 26 08:55:20 excalibur kernel: ttyS4: LSR safety check engaged!
Jul 26 08:55:20 excalibur kernel: ttyS4: LSR safety check engaged!
Jul 26 08:55:21 excalibur pppd[3680]: Exit.
Any ideas on why I cannot connect a second time?
I have notice the ncpfs has been deprecated. Why? I need this module. Is
there a replacement?
And finally how do compile a module? I don't want to have to recompile the
whole kernel. I was able to do the following before the upgrade:
cp configs/kernel-2.6.7-i686 .config
make menuconfig
vi Makefile and remove custom from extraversion
make modules SUBDIRS=fs/ntfs
etc.
>From what I have read the SUBDIRS= option has been 'replaced' with O=. So
how should I compile my module. I have been to ntfs-sourceforge.net but the
only module they had was for the stock kernel that came with FC3T1, but the
494 kernel.
Thanks and keep up the good work.
Jason
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19 years, 9 months
Kooka Scanning Problems with Rawhide
by Dwaine Garden
I'm running the latest version of rawhide. I've had this problem since
the Fedora Core 2 final testing.
When I load kooka, the scanner scans just fine. But, there is no output
in the output window. Even in preview mode, there is no output from the
scanner. The USB scanner does go through it's excerise of scanning the
paper and acts normally.
I did test out my scanner to see if it was a problem with the libusb.
Using xsane, the scanner scans and outputs the image. It seems there is
a problem with kooka. I even tried to uninstall the kdegraphics rpm and
reinstall. That did not fix the problem. I tried to get any output
from running kooka from a terminal session. There was no output from
kooka.
Running KDE 3.2.2-6
Kernel 2.6.7 (custom compile)
kooka 0.42
Has anyone experienced this problem?
Dwaine.
19 years, 9 months
yum update - dependancy problems
by Paul F. Johnson
Hi,
Trying to do an update on this box (FC3t1) and am hitting the following
dependency problems
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora Core 2 - Development tree
Server: Evolution Devel Snaps
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released updates
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Updates testing
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
.....Unable to satisfy dependencies
Package gimp needs libcrlayeng.so.1, this is not available.
Package gimp needs libcroco.so.1, this is not available.
Package gimp needs libcrseleng.so.2, this is not available.
Package subversion needs libswigpy.so, this is not available.
Package gtkhtml3 needs libgtkhtml-3.1.so.10, this is not available.
Package subversion-perl needs libswigpl.so, this is not available.
Any ideas when these will be sorted?
TTFN
Paul
--
"Look. If you had one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything you
ever wanted. One moment to capture or would you just let it slip?" -
Marshall Mathers III (Lose Yourself)
19 years, 9 months
grpconv: Out Of Memory
by Janina Sajka
I'm trying to dip my toe into ldap. So, I've tried using authconfig and
checking ldap. After 'next' the system becomes very busy for about 2
minutes. Eventually I see the following in /var/log/messages:
kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 31691 (grpconv).
and authconf closes.
Looking at top during this I see most of my 2 Gb of Ram and 2 Gb of swap
used, and about 25% cpu as well.
Can anyone shed light on this? Is there a bug here? Or, should this tool
run only after some by-hand configuration of ldap/slapd?
19 years, 9 months