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FC6 shutdown error with vmware
by Paul Smith 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Dear All When I shutdown the PC, it repeats an error message, in fact, endless. The error message starts after killall process activated. Here is the error: unregister_netdevice: waiting for vmnet1 to become free Usage Count = 1 The error is endless, I have to press i/o button to hard shutdown. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul

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multiple-user behavior
by Michael Klinosky 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Hello. I have FC 6, and use gnome. I just created a second user, and I'm curious about the behavior when I log in to the other user. On the first user, I run BOINC (a distributed processing client). So, I log out of that account, and into the second. I used 'top', and noticed that boinc is still running. I logged out of the second and back into the first. With 'top', I see boinc is still running; however, its gui is nowhere to be found! How do I get it back?

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DVD Playback problems
by Rob Brown-Bayliss 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Hi, I am not sure if it's a hardware problem or a software problem, but it seems like the problems started with fc6, that is I dont recall having these isuues with 4 and 5... I have a dvd/cdr combo drive... The problem is some dvd's are not being mounted, and some are, but sometimes after a couple of tries the disk will automount, other times if I reboot with the dvd in the drive it's there, and other times it's not. I have no problems with CD's in the same drive. Reading and writing works fine. Any one else having dvd playback problems? And is there any way other than buying a new drive to prove it is a hard ware problem? -- Rob

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good command-line audio player for fc5?
by Peter Horst 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Is there a good command-line audio player for fc5? I just want something simple that I can use via PuTTY to play .oggs and internet radio streams. I tried a program called 'orpheus', but it stopped working almost immediately ('cannot open the mixer device: /dev/mixer' and 'The ogg player program has terminated.'). Thanks much!

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foomatic-rip: catastrophic memleak
by Colin Brace 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Hi all, Just now I went to print a pdf document in evince. The print job quit halfway through, and a program called "foomatic-rip" started grabbing all my memory; the last top reading was 667 MB resident memory and 1069 MB virtual. Alas, I didn't get to the command line in time enough to kill it and completely choked my system; I could neither ssh in from another machine to kill it nor kill X with ctrl-alt-backspace; my only recourse was a hard-reboot (accompanied by a lot of cursing). I've seen footmatic-rip sporadically misbehave this way before, both under FC6, which I am currently running, and FC5; previous occasions it has been printing from Firefox. I don't see it happen when printing from Abiword or glabels on the other hand. Anyone have any idea what is going on? I am printing to a Lexmark Z-51 USB printer. $ rpm -qf /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip foomatic-3.0.2-39.1.fc6 -- Colin Brace Amsterdam

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Enable printer wierdness ??
by Bill Case 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Hi; This is a little complex to follow. It's taken me two weeks to define the problem without finding a solution. Basically, my HP psc_1310_series printer keeps becoming un-enabled and removed as default. Here is what happens: I login, check my printer_config settings and my HP psc_1310_series printer is check marked as enabled. Open a word processing or text editing program such as Open Office Writer, AbiWord, emacs or gedit and try and print a test page. The test page is put in the queue but no printing. I again check my printer_config; my HP psc_1310_series printer is no longer enabled. If I re-checkmark the enabled box and 'Apply', the printer immediately prints everything in the queue even if I have cancelled all the outstanding jobs. Everything continues to print fine in every program until I log out and in again. The cycle continues with the printer_config being marked as enabled until I call a new test print job. I am baffled. -- Regards Bill

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Help with data retrieval
by Arthur Pemberton 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

Hello list, I have an IDE HDD with a vfat (FAT32) partition, in a USB enclosure. There seems to be a hardware failure. Machines can still mount the partition, but errors cause reading to be very slow. What are the optimal methods for automating the retrieval process? I'm guessing some of you have techniques/scripts which would help me get as much data as possible. Please advise. Than you. -- Fedora Core 6 and proud

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Blocking Spam
by Todd Simi 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

Hi, I'm getting spammed to death. I'm running sendmail and ClamAV. Is there a way of filtering mail by keyword? I seem to get a few particular emails from different sources, but they are all the same messages. Thanks Todd

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KVM and Xen
by Mike Chalmers 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

I was wondering if anyone new about these and would explain them to me? Thanks.

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renaming a file....
by bruce 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

i can rename a file in the current dir is there a way to be in a parent dir, and rename a file in a child dir? i can use the find cmd, and generate the files i want to rename. however, my attempts at using the find . -name "foo" | xargs rename... doesn't seem to work, as the rename is coming back saying that the file doesn't exist.. it seems that the rename is operating on files in the current dir, as opposed to the files from the 'find'.... thanks

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