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Croquet
by Ric Moore 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

Is anyone playing with this? It seems that the Windoze and Mac users have latched onto this Open Source Program, that shares codebase with "Second Life", the wildly popular commercial Virtual Reality world. Croquet is the toolkit that builds objects and VR worlds. And, it's free! Check it out... http://www.opencroquet.org/index.html I'm running into an issue where it doesn't see openGL as installed. I hope we can get Fedora users to adopt into this project. I can use the help!! If anyone is into this, please drop me a line. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================

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Duplicated packages on x86_64
by Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

Hi! I'm new to Fedora, and I'm using FC6 on a x86_64 desktop. Something that I find really strange is the fact that I have a lot of duplicated packages for both x86_64 and i386 archs. By my counting I have about 173 packages that have both the i386 and x86_64 versions installed. A while ago I tried to install 'subversion' using Yum, and said it would install both arches. Then I tried the same install with Smart, and it said it would install the x86_64 version only. How can I make this behavior stop for Yum? -- % Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) | Maceio/AL/BR % % mteixeira{a}webset{d}net | http://smartpm.org % % http://mteixeira.webset.net | http://pmping.sf.net %

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tip: automated way to delete duplicate rpms
by Kim Lux 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

I recently updated a server from fc3 to fc6. All seemed to go well except the first yum attempt to update the machine failed and when I entered synaptic I received a ton of errors about duplicate rpms installed on the machine. I've run into this issue before. Unfortunately neither yum nor synaptic has a way to deal with it, as far as I can tell. Rather than manually go through the list of offending rpms and delete them, I did things semi automatically. There were 120 duplicate rpms on my machine, so manually typing the full package names would have taken a while. Here is what I did instead. 1) Generate a list of all the rpm packages installed. $rpm -qa --queryformat '%{name}\n' > pkglist This generates an unsorted list that looks like this. libavc1394 libmusicbrainz ethtool desktop-file-utils less time libXrandr rmt 2) Sort the list and find the duplicates $sort -g pkglist | uniq -d > duplicates This list will look like a2ps anacron at audit ... 3) Generate a list of the packages with versions to look at and edit I created a small script file called dupWithVersions with this in it for pkg in `cat duplicates`; do rpm -q $pkg done Redirect the output to another file like this. $dupWithVersions >removeList The remove list will look like this: a2ps-4.13b-57 a2ps-4.13b-57.fc6.3 anacron-2.3-41.fc6 anacron-2.3-44.fc6 at-3.1.8-82.fc6 at-3.1.8-84.fc6 audit-1.2.8-1.fc6 audit-1.3-2.fc6 Go through the remove list and manually remove the versions you want to KEEP ! Remember this is a list of rpms you want to remove ! 4) Remove the rpms in the remove list. To do this I generated a little script as follows: for pkg in `cat removelist`; do rpm -e $pkg done This process quickly and correctly removed the duplicate rpms from my machine. I hope this helps someone. -- Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.

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Webcam and FC6
by Keith Powell 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

Just before Christmas, I was trying to get my Logitech Quickcam Chat working in FC6. In spite of much help, and spending days trying the different suggestions both from here and elsewhere, I couldn't get it to work. Then Christmas took priority and I had to abandon it. I've now been able to have another look at it. I have the i686 version of the kernel, the i686 kernel-devel with the i386 kernel headers. All for the '2798' kernel Like Gilboa, on another thread, I downloaded the gspcav1-20061216.tar.gz file from mxhaard. But, when I try to compile gspca, I get the following error: [root@localhost gspcav1-20061216]# make make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/keith/gspcav1-20061216 CC=cc modules /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i686/scripts/gcc-version.sh: line 11: cc: command not found /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i686/scripts/gcc-version.sh: line 12: cc: command not found make[1]: cc: Command not found make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i686' CC [M] /home/keith/gspcav1-20061216/gspca_core.o /bin/sh: cc: command not found make[2]: *** [/home/keith/gspcav1-20061216/gspca_core.o] Error 127 make[1]: *** [_module_/home/keith/gspcav1-20061216] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i686' make: *** [default] Error 2 [root@localhost gspcav1-20061216]# The gspcav1-20061216.tar.gz has worked with another distro, with no errors. Please can anyone help? Many thanks Keith

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wireless card doesn't work...
by Mike Chalmers 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

I am using a Linksys Wireless card, model WMP54Gv4.1. I just installed Linux on the computer and I cannot get a connection? Any ideas?

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Display the root window
by Steve Searle 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

Does anyone know how I can expose the X Window System root window under Gnome on FC6? Cheers Steve -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting a bad thing? 17:22:13 up 132 days, 19:48, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

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Logitech Communication STX mike.
by Gilboa Davara 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

Hello all, I've just installed a Logitech Communication STX Webcam (using the gspc driver) and it works just fine. (The's a small issue with kopete but the image in mplayer/in is perfect so it must be an application issue.) The only thing missing is microphone support. AFAIK, the webcam includes a built in microphone. Anyone have any idea how to operate it? - Gilboa

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Re: Download and install FC6
by Anne Wilson 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

On Saturday 30 December 2006 02:19, edwardspl(a)ita.org.mo wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >On Friday 29 December 2006 16:18, edwardspl(a)ita.org.mo wrote: > >>Dear All, > >> > >>I want to know how did you install FC6 with your machine ? > >>When I installed FC6 with full packages ( full install ), then the > >>system display error message and recommend report the bug... > >>So, is there a stable of FC6 ( ISO ) files for downloading ? > >> > >>Edward. > > > >Edward, you will need to quote the actual error message so that someone > > can work out where your problem lies. > > > >It may also be useful if you told us where you got your disk(s), and if > > you burned them yourself, what method you used and what checks you made. > > > >Anne > > Hello Anne, > > 1, Send you the error message ( attachment ). > 2, I got the CD Disk(s) iso files under the URL: > http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/iso/ > > Edward. Edward, this needs more expertise than I have, so I'm quoting your attachment to the list. <quote> anacdump.txt Traceback (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/netconfig_dialog.py", line 69, in _netdevChanged if netdev.get("ipaddr"): self.xml.get_widget("ipv4AddressEntry").set_text(netdev.get("ipaddr")) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'set_text' Local variables in innermost frame: val: eth0 netdev: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static BROADCAST=192.168.0.255 HWADDR=00:17:31:7E:F8:34 IPADDR=192.168.0.1 IPV6ADDR= IPV6PREFIX= NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.0.0 ONBOOT=yes self: <netconfig_dialog.NetworkConfigurator instance at 0xb7b69dec> bootproto: static combo: <gtk.ComboBox object (GtkComboBox) at 0xb7a20f2c> active: <GtkTreeIter at 0xacaa9c0> Anaconda instance, containing members: rootPath: /mnt/sysimage rescue_mount: True intf: InstallInterface instance, containing members: intf.icw: InstallControlWindow instance, containing members: intf.icw.handle: 2991 intf.icw.mainxml: <glade.XML object (PyGladeXML) at 0xb7c0425c> intf.icw.reloadRcQueued: 0 intf.icw.curr </quote> I'm sure someone will jump in with some useful hints. What do you mean by 'full install'? Do you mean clean install rather than upgrade, or do you mean that you elected to install every available package? I ask that because I have seen some comments about incompatibilities if you select everything, but it may not be relevant here. Sorry I've nothing useful to add at this point. Anne

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Re: "corrupted orphan linked list" on my home filesystem
by Paulo Cavalcanti 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

> for the second time in a few days, my /home filesystem > (/dev/fc5/home, the name being a holdover when i was running FC5 under > LVM2 on this system) magically reverted to "read-only" status, forcing > me to reboot, at which point i was told: > "Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list were > found." > requiring e2fsck to fix all sorts of apparent corruption. > once is a bit weird, twice is a definite pattern. has anyone else > seen this lately? kernel is 2.6.18-1.2868.fc6. Yes I did. I got it two days in a row. It turns out that it was DMA disk errors. The kernel then remount the disk read only. Use smartmontools to check your disk status: sudo /usr/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/hdx There must be some errors logged. The cause? Who knows .... Power supply, old disk, bad stabilizer, bad luck, etc .... /Paulo Roma

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"corrupted orphan linked list" on my home filesystem
by Robert P. J. Day 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

for the second time in a few days, my /home filesystem (/dev/fc5/home, the name being a holdover when i was running FC5 under LVM2 on this system) magically reverted to "read-only" status, forcing me to reboot, at which point i was told: "Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list were found." requiring e2fsck to fix all sorts of apparent corruption. once is a bit weird, twice is a definite pattern. has anyone else seen this lately? kernel is 2.6.18-1.2868.fc6. rday p.s. the "mount" command insisted that the filesystem was still mounted "rw", and trying a "remount" had no effect.

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