kbuildsycoca problem?
by Gene Heskett
Greetings;
I just installed "yum install xmms xmms*" and then ran kbuildsycoca to get
it into the menu's. Twice now, and it reported that it was re-using the
old config, but it has reduced the menu's drasticly, control center is
completely missing, the subdirs of the games menu is gone so its all one
big listing now, etc etc.
What has happened here? Do I need to mv the old one so it works from
scratch or what? In which case what file do I mv please.
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17 years, 4 months
FC5 video devices on boot
by Jim Duda
I recently upgraded to FC5. I'm finding that each time I boot, my video devices come up in a
random order, which is painful.
I have entries in /etc/modprobe.conf. I thought this was how devices are mapped to drivers.
alias char-major-81-* videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
alias char-major-81-1 bttv
alias char-major-81-2 cx8800
However, since upgrading to FC5, this doesn't appear to work anymore.
Is this a modules.conf thing or a udev thing?
How can I make my video devices order boot up the same each time?
Thanks,
Jim
17 years, 4 months
Upgrade to FC6 question.
by Terry Snyder
I just did an upgrade for FC6 from FC5 and I noticed that it installed
the kernel and not the kernel-smp for the current kernel. I have an
Intel Core Duo processor and in FC5 I was using the smp kernel. I
looked at the package manager and didn't see any smp kernels or kernel
modules for the i686 kernels. Does the new kernel handle the smp
features or where can I get the smp kernel and all of the modules for
it?
Thanks in advance.
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Computer Support Specialist
http://www.personal.psu.edu/tes215
Linux (Red Hat, Fedora Core), Windows, Mac
Fedora Core 5 3 users, load average: 0.19, 0.30, 0.28
17 years, 4 months
SUG: Automatic RPM database verification and repair
by Tony Nelson
I have written a script to automatically verify and repair the RPM database
each day, called rpm_verify_db, at
<http://georgeanelson.com/rpm-verifydb.htm>.
The RPM database is vital to the maintenace of Fedora or any Redhat-branch
Linux. Yum uses it for updates. Nothing ever checks it for corruption,
until RPM finally complains. I personally could not upgrade to FC6 because
of silent corruption, so I wrote this package.
RPM's developer, Jeff Johnson, believes that RPM database corruption is so
extremely rare that it is not worth checking for, and he also notes that
the check that I am using is inadequate. It is, however, the best /check/
available in RPM. It can fail to detect problems that RPM may report when
doing transactions that update the RPM database. See the thread at
Redhat's rpm-list, "SUG: Automatic RPM database verification and repair".
RPM may be able to rebuild the database if corruption is found (by RPM, or
by my package, or by running "rpm --verifydb" by hand). To rebuild the RPM
database, run "rpm --rebuilddb" as root (which is what my package does).
However, --rebuilddb simply rebuilds the database; it does not say whether
there were errors in the old database, so it is not itself a /check/ of the
database.
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17 years, 4 months
Can't Gedit anymore : Solved
by George Hare
George Hare wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I used to su gedit all the time to make any changes to files that
> required me to be root. I used to get this warning also
>
> (gedit:3880): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
> Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols
> specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.
>
> but it would still work. Now it stopped working. Gedit just freezes. I
> have done many things since last use, so I would not have a clue how
> to fix this. I am using Fedora6 64bit. Any suggestions would be
> greatly appreciated (exept for , "use vi").
>
> Many Thanks,
>
> George Hare
Just change your command line a bit.
sudo gedit file.name
You are dealing with permissions to open windows on your X windows
display. The root account does not, and should not, have permissions to
open a window on your display.
sudo is your friend. Logs of super user activity can be priceless. :)
Thanks for the fix Phil
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G. Hare
17 years, 4 months
Fonts on FC6
by Kevin Kempter
Hi List;
I'm converting from SuSE due to the recent brain-dead decision to engage with
M$. One issue is that I had hundreds and hundreds of fonts in SuSE 10.0. How
can I get loads of fonts in FC6 ?
Thanks in advance
17 years, 4 months
re: Fedora Video Card Problem
by aceofspades12491@aim.com
Well you are correct, im fairly new to linux.
1. To answer your first question i did infact accept many of the defaults. I only had the burned disc 1 and 2 and im not sure if thats of any help? But i was able to install with the two by using the standards, but getting rid of editors, and Joystick under gnome games. (i dont really know if you have to get rid of joystick or not).
2. I set up about a 20 gig partition for FC and 1028 megs of swap for my 1024 mes of Ram.
3. It dual boots into windows Xp just fine, The graphics card works under xp just as it's supposed to.
4. Ido get the text boot screen.
5. It seems as though it is trying to start the Xserver, but the monitor then goes into sleep mode, and as an added bonus says frequency out of range.
6. However it does not complete the boot cycle, or even get into the x server. Its an analog 1600 by 1200 monitor.
I did infact try what Robin suggested, but after the install fedora asks you to set up firewalls, and account names, etc. Well needless to say that didnt work. I am able to use a different pc to view this while viewing the problem. As for bringin the monitor back to life, it did nothing and proceeded to sit there and face an onslaught of my choice vulgarities.( this is about the fourth time ive tried to install.) I am also able to take the X1600 out, and use the onboard graphics to install, which it does boot correctly and im able to get into fedora and play around. But having purchased a pricey gfx card, and dual booting with windows, i dont want to swap the card in and out every time i switch OS's.
Sorry that was a bit long, but i appreciate the help immensely.
-Matt
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17 years, 4 months
Overcoming the 2GB limit in writing a dvd iso to disk
by Jeffrey D. Yuille
Hello,
Does anyone know how to overcome the 2gb limit in writing a dvd iso
image to a dvd-r disk. I am currently using Fedora Core 6 and I just
bought a dvd burner. What I am finding out is that there is nothing
wrong with the k3b software I am using, but that there is a file size
limit of 2gb in trying to burn the software. How do I overcome this? I
have never run into a problem like this before in buring iso images and
I would certainly appreciate any help available.
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(USA)
17 years, 4 months