Reading docbook files
by Anne Wilson
I attempted to open the handbook for konsole, and got 'the requested help file
could not be parsed: '
The file exists, is correctly placed, so presumably I'm missing the
wherewithall to read it. What do I need? Shouldn't this be a default
package?
Anne
14 years, 1 month
Gnome Bug(let)
by Leslie S Satenstein
What would cause a Gnome logon to start, without any icons shown on the desktop and with the desktop (via command line) showing all the files that would appear.
This would happen once every 5 to 10 logons.
Relogging causes correct action.
14 years, 1 month
Re: Encryption support in Anaconda failing
by Rahul Sundaram
Dave Lehman wrote:
>> No RAID. Just the default LVM setup and settings which IIRC encrypts
>> both swap and root. Do you have a bug number for the bug you are
>> referring to?
>
> 441001, although it does not apply if you are using the default
> automatic partitioning layout. The default layout encrypts the PVs, not
> the LVs.
>
> You should probably open a bug against mkinitrd. I don't think Peter
> will mind if you assign it to me. I'd like to see your init script from
> the initrd (gzip -dc < /boot/initrd-<blah>.img | cpio -iv init), along
> with a rundown of what devices root and swap are on.
You want me to reinstall with encryption support and boot into rescue
mode and do this or would the init script from the a non encrypted
installation do?
Rahul
14 years, 1 month
Re: Bad rendering FF beta 5
by Steven I Usdansky
On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:39:13 -0700
Andrew Farris <lordmorgul(a)gmail.com> attempted to state:
> Steven I Usdansky wrote:
> > Checking out my local weather with the most recent Firefox3 beta 5
> > build, I get
> > http://soleil.nfldinet.com/~rockdoctor/bad_rendering.png
> > I believe it was fine a week ago - I'm not sure when it went bad. Any
> > ideas?
>
> Renders correctly for me, even if I zoom the text sizing back and forth.
Did
> you have javascripts denied/blocked maybe?
>
No denials/blocks on javascripts. Setting layout.css.dpi to 96 (was at
the default -1) in about:config appears to have solved the problem.
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14 years, 1 month
64 Rawhide install floods network
by Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX
Saturday's Rawhide NFS install was proceeding at a snail's pace.
After 6-8 hours only 2/3 of the packages had been installed
on my Intel DG33BU based system. Until lately NFS installs
on this machine had been responsive and fast (or not at all).
My wife complained that she couldn't run internet or email
apps on a compaq laptop which accesses my subnet via wifi.
I stopped the Rawhide install. Voila. All was well at Caddyshack.
As I write this, the same Rawhide is installing on an older AMD
machine without obvious problems other than the Anaconda X server
still not working.
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14 years, 1 month
Re: Exiting urxvt freezes system
by Scott Robbins
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:48:28PM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:
I accidentally deleted Andrew's response (and this is mutt so there was
no turning back.)
Original problem:
>
> It opens, I can type things in it and everything's fine. However, if I
> type exit to close the terminal, my entire system freezes. I can't ping
> it from another machine, I can't use any keystrokes to get out of X, the
> mouse is frozen and the only thing to do is a hard reboot of the machine
> by pressing the power key.
>
>
> /var/log/messages shows kernel: X[2109]: segfault at 0 ip 0812fdf2
> spbf94c03c error 4 in Xorg[8048000+1ae000].
>
Andrew suggested installing kernel-debuginfo. Oddly enough, there
doesn't seem to be a kernel-debuginfo package available--doing a yum
search for kernel and debug, I still couldn't find it. What am I
missing?
Running -F on /var/log/messages only showed the same information as
given above, that kernel: X[2109] segfault message.
It doesn't surprise me that Andrew can't reproduce it, this laptop is
rather flakey.
--
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slayer dies.
Joyce: Then that means you... When did you die? You never told me
you died.
Buffy: It was just for a few minutes.
14 years, 1 month
Re: Encryption support in Anaconda failing
by Rahul Sundaram
Dave Lehman wrote:
> Rahul,
>
> It would help to know your partition layout, including LVM and RAID and
> which devices are encrypted.
>
> If you are encrypting LVs and have swap and root both on LVs you will
> hit a similar bug. If you have only swap *or* root on an encrypted LV
> you should be okay.
No RAID. Just the default LVM setup and settings which IIRC encrypts
both swap and root. Do you have a bug number for the bug you are
referring to?
> I'm not on fedora-test-list, just so you know. I will remedy that on
> Monday.
Thanks.
Rahul
14 years, 1 month
Re: Rawhide snapshot installation woes
by Fulko Hew
On 4/5/08, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Fulko Hew wrote:
> > Here's my (poor) experience with
> > Rawhide-20080404-Snapshot-i686-Live-KDE.torrent.
> > installation on a Dell Inspiron 6400 (aka 1505) laptop, with Intel
video.
> >
> > After installation to disk and rebooting, all I get is the 'blue screen'
> > with X cursor.
> > Either booting in text mode or by viewing the boot progress, I see the
> > following:
> >
> > S99firstboot line 44: FILENAME: command not found
> > S99firstboot line 44: [: missing `]'
> > S99firstboot line 44: FILENAME: command not found
> >
> > and then it just hangs... no GUI login, no text login.
>
> Either boot into run level 3 or press I for interactive startup and skip
> first boot. You can then do a update which fixes this problem. First
> boot will start the next time you reboot after that.
Booting into run level 3 wasn't enough for me, but the interactive
startup was. I then fixed the problem, and ran firstart manually.
That now lets me get on with testing Rawhide...
Now where do I start with my comments and opinions?
1/ Click on _anything_, or try to do _anything_ and
the SELinux AVC denial popup appears. Arghh, I want to
throw this thing against the wall!
2/ I tried changing the size of the task bar and the
widgets are not drawn properly inside it.
3/ I can't find anything 'useful' on the menu. Note that my
frustration is starting to set in big time!
4/ I hate this new menu mechanism. Having to constantly
click to expand a menu... click to get back a level,
clock to pick the right group out of the bottom,
before you start your clicking exercise.
Click, click, click, click click! All this clicking
is going to give me RSI, and I'm going to sue somebody! :-(
5/ I can't find where I can choose the video driver for X.
Its picked VESA by default instead of the Intel driver
more apropos for this hardware, and so I'd like to change it,
but I can't find it on the menu. (Though I can run
system-config-display manually) When I did, I'm pretty
sure that it didn't work, but I don't know the details...
I'll have to do it again and record the symptoms.
6/ I tried the KDE news ticker. It now popup up as a
window rather than part of the taskbar.
Keeping things on the task bar, keeps them in a known
location and always visible. Forcing them to be another
window makes them 'yet another window that you need to
personally manage. Thats make it time consuming... that
make any work on the desktop time consuming when I create,
resize, move windows, etc.
7/ The calendar that you get when you click on the clock goes
away as soon as you click on another spot on the desktop or
a window. What happens if I want to keep it visible and
actually refer to it while I do other work in other windows...
I can't... Argh.
8/ If this is the new KDE... count me out!!! (It is a lot
more unfriendly and alot more timeconsuming.)
14 years, 1 month
Copyright notice
by Anne Wilson
I'm in the middle of installing the F9 beta downloaded just over a week ago.
I've just noticed that the copyright notice is 2003-2007. Surely that's a
mistake? Has it been corrected since then?
Anne
14 years, 1 month