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Python, RPM error
by Austin Isler 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

I apologize if this is in the archives, and I missed it. I updated rpm a while back with: # yum -y update rpm I believe it installed a python2.4 package as well. Ever since then, I have had problems with python and rpm. I get this error when trying to use yum: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 6, in ? import yummain File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 23, in ? import yum File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 21, in ? import rpm ImportError: No module named rpm Appreciate the help, Austin

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firefox bookmarks
by Richard E Miles 21 Jul '07

21 Jul '07

Is it possible to save the firefox bookmarks so that when I do a clean install of FC4 I can reload them? I tried to cp the bookmarks.html file back into the /home/rmiles/.mozilla/firefox/0qem39dn.default directory but it did not restore them from an earlier saving of this file. It would be nice to be able to reset the bookmarks that I had in FC 3 to the FC 4 firefox. -- Richard E Miles Federal Way WA. USA registered linux user 46097

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Public keys - again.
by Anne Wilson 26 Jun '07

26 Jun '07

Realising that I hadn't installed lshw since I installed FC6, I tried to get it today and came up once again against the public key problem. I'll never get the hang of this :-( I followed the link on freshrpm's web page and saved the file, then ran 'rpm --import path/to/file' which appeared to put it into the right place, but still the package wouldn't install because it said there was no public key. Wondering whether the problem was because something was broken in my repo setup - out of date, perhaps - I removed the repo and reinstalled it. Still no joy. Just what is it that I have forgotten? Anne

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/dev/mapper and Anaconda install failures (FC6 x86_64)
by Sean Bruno 12 Jun '07

12 Jun '07

I've been wrestling with anaconda this evening on my x86_64 machine. It seems that anaconda (or some other piece of the installer) is forcing /dev/mapper to be created even when I have no RAID devices enabled. I have cleared the 'fake' raid stuff off of my disks from rescue mode(dmraid -E), but with 2 disks installed the installer insists on trying to configure /dev/mapper/mpath0. I see each disk individually if I only have one SATA drive connected at a time. Which seems odd as heck to me, but I can install FC6 and at least send you folks this email this way. Is there a 'nodmraid' option to the installer that I can pass to allow me to see /dev/sda & /dev/sdb instead of the dmraid stuff? What's even stranger is that there appears to be a way to disable dmraid from the GUI screen when you choose to 'remove all partitions', but the option is greyed out?!? Any guidance would be appreciated. Sean

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YUM update dies with confict between poppler-utils and xpdf-utils
by Arch Willingham 25 May '07

25 May '07

I have two machines that are running into a problem when doing a YUM update (or YUMEX or PUP update) when they hit the poppler-utils package. The error is as follows: Transaction Check Error: file /usr/bin/pdftoppm from install of poppler-utils-0.5.4-3.fc6 conflicts with file from package xpdf-utils-3.01-26.fc6 file /usr/share/man/man1/pdftoppm.1.gz from install of poppler-utils-0.5.4-3.fc6 conflicts with file from package xpdf-utils-3.01-26.fc6 Any ideas? Thanks! Arch

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Anyone know what this means?
by Adam Hough 24 May '07

24 May '07

I get this from dmesg running FC5 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5smp. The machine seems to be stable (was crashing very frequently before this kernel in FC). Also yes I know to boot with noapci as a kernel parameter to most likely get rid of this error. I am still curious as to what it means. ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0681): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20060707] ACPI: Getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x2 ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0681): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20060707] ACPI: Getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x3 Also hyperthreading is disabled in the bios as the machine refuses to boot if it is enabled with this kernel and all previous FC5 kernels panic on this machine. Memory is fine also no errors after ~90 hours of memtest86+. The motherboard and processors are new also. -- Adam Hough High Performance Computing ahough(a)lsu.edu

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Cursor problem
by Астахов Петр 24 May '07

24 May '07

Hello! I bought motherboard Gigabyte GA-K8N51PVMT-9 on chipset GeForce 6150 and installed FC5. I can't see cursor in X. When computer loading, and rhgb show the progress of loading, I see cursor and everything OK. When computer is loaded and X started, there is no viewable cursor on the screen. I move mouse, all necessary menus etc are highlighted, but no cursor. I update kernel and xorg - result the same. I installed nvidia drivers for video from livna - but result the same - no cursor. What shall I do? With best regard, Peter (Zebar) Astakhov

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dump/restore (or "star") and SELinux problems
by Kayvan A. Sylvan 04 May '07

04 May '07

Hi folks, I am trying again. I haven't gotten an answer that works yet and hoping that people who know more about SELinux and Fedora can see this and suggest a solution (or at least a way to investigate). My goal: To be able to reszie a partition (or rearrange filesystems) without losing any data or meta-data. parted is useless, since it won't handle the xattr filesystem data. I used dump to create a filesystem backup, then used the FC5 Install DVD to go into rescue mode and restore the dump. That seem to work okay for the file data. However, for each and every file, I get the message: restore: lsetxattr ./filename_being_restored failed: Invalid argument Using "ls -Z", I see that all the files end up being unlabeled (or they are in the unlabeled_t context). These files were all set up in Fedora FC4, using the targeted policy. When I am booting up using the FC5 Install DVD ("linux rescue"), the SELinux startup shows: security: 3 users, 6 roles, 1161 types, 135 bools, 1 sens, 256 cats security: 55 classes, 38679 rules SELinux: Completing initialization. SELinux: Setting up existing superblocks. SELinux: initialized (dev loop0, type squashfs), not configured for labeling SELinux: initialized (dev usbfs, type usbfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev ramfs, type ramfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev ramfs, type ramfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev debugfs, type debugfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev selinuxfs, type selinuxfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev mqueue, type mqueue), uses transition SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev hugetlbfs, type hugetlbfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev devpts, type devpts), uses transition SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev eventpollfs, type eventpollfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev inotifyfs, type inotifyfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev futexfs, type futexfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev pipefs, type pipefs), uses task SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev sockfs, type sockfs), uses task SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev cpuset, type cpuset), not configured for labeling SELinux: initialized (dev proc, type proc), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev bdev, type bdev), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev rootfs, type rootfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev sysfs, type sysfs), uses genfs_contexts I have also tried using "star" with the following args: star -v -c -xdev -sparse -acl -link-dirs level=0 -wtardumps \ f=root.star -C / . And then, when booted into the rescue mode, did the following to extract: star -xpU -restore f=root.star This produced the same result. The files end up being unlabeled. I am wondering if I have to have the same SELinux policy loaded while in the rescue mode in order to avoid the "lsetxattr: invalid argument" error? How would I go about doing that? Thanks for any help! ---Kayvan -- Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids: Sylvan Associates, Inc. | Laura Isabella Sylvan, | Katherine Yelena (8/8/89) http://sylvan.com/~kayvan | my beautiful Queen. | Robin Gregory (2/28/92)

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Re: Webcam with FC6
by Mike Zingale 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Keith, I have, I believe, the same camera. You need to install the SPCA driver for it -- this is not part of the mainline kernel. The following worked for me: wget http://drpixel.tuxfamily.org/fedora/drpixel-release-1-1.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh drpixel-release-1-1.noarch.rpm yum install --enablerepo=drpixel kmod-gspca in aMSN, if you use a NAT/router, you need to open ports 6890-6900 for the camera to work. I believe I also had to do this in the fedora firewall. Mike > I have read that the Logitech Quickcam Chat web cam works 'out of the > box' with Linux. So I have bought one. Unfortunately, I can't get it > to work in Linux, let alone 'out of the box'! It works extremely well > with XP and Windows Live Messenger. > The camera active light is on, but no Linux programs appear to be able > to find it. The camera is plugged into a USB socket on the back of > the computer. [snip] > Please, what should I try next to get the webcam to work? > Any advice will be *very* gratefully received. > Many thanks > Keith

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Skype solution
by Matthew Saltzman 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

I remember a relatively recent thread in which folks complained about having trouble getting their microphones to work in Skype with FC6, but I don't recall a definitive solution being posted. It took me quite a bit of fiddling, but I finally got it. For the use of anyone who cares, here are the relevant mixer settings from my GNOME volume control. I did this on a Thinkpad T41, with Intel 82801DB-ICH4 using the ALSA drivers. I'm using skype-1.3.0.53-fc5. On the Playback tab, line in and mic are muted. Master and PCM are unmuted--Master is up full and PCM is at about 75%. On the Capture tab, both the speaker icon and the mic icon are unmuted. They are linked, and they are set at about 40% gain. (Much higher and you'll start to hear feedback.) On the Switches tab, I have Mic Boost (+20dB) checked, and (inexplicably, but it works--I don't know yet if other settings also work) Microphone Capture and Line-in Capture are unchecked. On the Options tab, Mic Select is Mic1. When the Skype test call connects, if you have the Capture tab displayed, you will see the gain boosted to about 70%. The test call works fine and the playback is perfectly audible. So the key seems to be to put Mic Boost on and adjust the gain for a reasonable level with no feedback. Hope that info helps somebody. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs

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