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Cups error - "An error occurred while retrieving the printer list. ": why ?
by Mark Ryden 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

Hello, I have a machine with newly installed Fedora Core 6 (i386). I had ran "yum update" on that machine. When starting kprinter I get the following error message: An error occurred while retrieving the printer list. Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is correctly installed and running. Error: the IPP request failed for an unknown reason. service cups restart does not change anything. rpm -q cups cups-1.2.7-1.3.fc6 There is NO firewall running on that machine. I also ran "tail -f /var/log/cups/error_log" when starting kprinter, yet I don't see any message in that log when kprinter is starting. It is a fresh installation of Fedora Core 6. I did NOT yet installed printers using cups/kprinter on that machine. I can enter the web interface from a firefox browser by: http://127.0.0.1:631 without any erros or problems. Any idea what can cause this error message? Regards, Mark

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copy and tar performance?
by Kevin Kempter 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

Hi List; Whenever I copy large files (>2G) or create large tar archives I basically loose control of my box (2.1Gz Laptop running FC5) until the copy or tar is complete. I can still try and work but the mouse movements are delayed several seconds, other programs take minutes to respond, etc. Is there a way I can overcome this so I can still work as normal during these operations, maybe a way to limit the amount of cpu or system resources that a cp or tar process can have? Other ideas? Thanks in advance

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Safest way of accessing a home computer from outside?
by Timothy Murphy 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

What is the safest way of allowing access to a home system from a remote computer? I am running Fedora-6 and shorewall. Any advice or suggestions gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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What happens now ?
by George Hare 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

> George Hare wrote: > > What happens now ? Will something new come down the pike? Where will > > you all go? You all have been a great group, supportive and helpful. I > > even gleaned some insight from the flame wars ;-). Thank you all. > > > > George Hare > > > > What is this posting in relation to? What is changing? > Jim > >

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Errors with Soft RAID 5 Array, no disks off line
by vamythguy 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

I have a 4 disk soft RAID-5 array and I'm receiving a ton of these messages in the system logs: Dec 31 17:04:38 tibeaux smartd[2384]: Device: /dev/sda, 3 Offline uncorrectable sectors Dec 31 17:04:39 tibeaux smartd[2384]: Device: /dev/sdd, 48 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors But cat /proc/mdstat reports: Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md0 : active raid5 sda[0] sdd[3] sdc[2] sdb[1] 735351936 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU] unused devices: <none> Best way to fix this, or is it not a problem?

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PAE / x86-64 on 965g
by javajunkie 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

Hello, With a P5B-vm MotherBoard with 4 GB installed and either a PAE enabled kernel or a x86_64 anaconda install and the memory remap feature enabled in the BIOS (this is necessary to get above 3gb on the motherboard), my system either crashes during boot or is very unstable (such as text from the initial stages of the boot superimposed over the graphical x86_64 boot and the fan suddenly running at top speed and never stopping). This motherboard is said to work with a win64 system... Any suggestions on a work around or what information to report so that it might get fixed? Shawn

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Grub wont boot Windows?
by Bob Goodwin 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

I have an FC6 computer that I'm certain worked initially but will not now boot Windows 2000. I don't know what more to do other than reinstall Windows and then that's going to mess the Linux boot process. Grub.config is: cat /etc/grub.conf # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,1) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=15 splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2849.fc6xen) root (hd0,1) kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6xen ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet module /initrd-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6xen.img title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen) root (hd0,1) kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet module /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen.img title Windows 2000 Pro rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 ~ ~ Which looks ok to me. However when I get the splashscreen that asks to "press any key" nothing happens? I can press Enter or the Space Bar and it ignores the keyboard and contiues conting down until the FC6 boot process begins. fdisk shows: fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 2550 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 2551 2563 104422+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 2564 9729 57560895 8e Linux LVM Any thoughts on what to try next are welcome. Bob Goodwin -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Enable Service with FC6
by Edward S.P. Leong 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

Dear You, Happy New Year first ! If want to enable the telnet service : /etc/xinetd.d/ekrb5-telnet /etc/xinetd.d/krb5-telnet Which telnet service do you recommend to enable ? BTY, after re-set the config, how to restart the xinetd.d ? Edward.

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Same files, different sizes in different partitions
by Paul Smith 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

Dear All In hde2 I have a subset of the set of files in hdb6. However, quite surprisingly, the used size in hde2 is greater than the used size in hdb6: /dev/hdb6 71630968 50686876 20944092 71% /mnt/mandriva /dev/hde2 74770560 55040436 15931960 78% /mnt/montado How can it be?! Thanks in advance, Paul

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Re: Installing DjVu plug-in
by Kam Leo 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

On 12/31/06, Szára György <lagymata(a)freestart.hu> wrote: > Please anybody who ever could me lend a helping hand ! > I had an unsuccessful attempt to install DjVuLibre -3.5.17 plug-in on my > Fedora Core 4. Last time I had not only tried but have comleted the > process according to the enclosed README. But in spite of all my > endevour the plug-in doesn't work for me ! > In the course of my atempt I had made as follows: > I had downloaded from http://djvu.libre.djvuzone.org > The tar.gz stuff was uncompressed, untared > $ cd to the same directory > $ ./configure > $ make then changed to su > # make install > After I had ascerteaned the site of the file plug-in with ls -al that is > /usr/lib/mozilla then the directorie /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. > After I changed to # cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins > I had to make -According to the written instructions- made symbolic > link > # ln -s /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/nsdejavu.so nsdejavu.so > in order to make mozilla firefox find the djview the name of reference. > The bug may be in the different environment suspected by Instruction > and the real lay out of my FC4. > In the Instruction one presumed: > /usr/local/.netscape/plugilns/nsdejavu.so > /usr/lilb/netscape/plugins/nsdejavu.so > but in the real lay out there is nowhere /netscape/ subdirectory ! > With this plug-in one should be able read documents of these kind. > In the hope I'll be able recompanse your pains > I stay sincerely yours > Gyurka Simple fix. Do the following: 1) Run "updatedb" to refresh the find database 2) Run "locate nsdejavu.so" to find instances of the particular file.

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