Xscreensaver and kde
by david walcroft
Hi,
I use a standard script in .kde/Autostart/xscreensaver.desktop
to start xscreensaver
"[desktop Entry]
Exec=xscreensaver
Name=Xscreensaver
Type=Application
X-KDE-StartupNotify=false"
But I get his error on a restart
'The desktop entry file /home/david/.kde/Autostart/xscreensaver.desktop
has no Type=... entry.'
Any one seen this as well and is there an answer.
Thanks david
18 years
pirat question
by Cam Bazz
Hello,
When I run pirat, it waits a long time, (prolly checking for updates,
etc). and generally does not behave well under low bandwidth conditions.
Is there any way to run pirat so it does work offline? Also, what do we
have to do for it to use the install dvd instead of the net?
Thank you.
-Cam
18 years
azureus -- FC4
by Gowri
Hi all ,
I am trying to download some files using torrents ( using azureus
client)
but iam getting some error like ,
Distributed data base UDP port mapping ( NAT/firewalled).
at below of azureus clientit is showing DHT firewalled .
Any help is appreciated.
Regards
Gowri
18 years
FC4: How do you automatically power the machine back up after a power failure?
by Gilbert Sebenste
One of my machines does it, two others don't, and I can't figure it out.
Anyone know offhand?
Thank you for any help!
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18 years
Multiple sound cards?
by patrick
Does anyone have any experience with multiple sound cards in a PC
running Fedora? I'm wondering if there's any sort of practical limit
besides the number of ISA or PCI slots in a machine? And more
specifically, let's say you have 3 or 4 sound cards and an
adequately-powered machine, would Linux have any trouble playing
different MP3 files to each card?
Thanks,
Patrick
18 years
fstab missing line
by Nader Mirzaee
Hello all
i seem to miss one line in the fstab in my FC5 machine . my cdrom drive doesn't function in linux .this is my fstab:
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0
what should i add to it ?
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18 years
Mysterious Unmounts
by Charles R. Dennett
I'm running FC5 and earlier this week one of the two hard drives in my
system died. It was the disk with FC5 on it. I bought a new disk,
installed it and reinstalled FC5. (Previously, I had done upgrade
installations starting with RH9->FC3->FC4->FC5 so this was really the
first time I had done a clean FC5 install.) I then did a "yum update".
I logged in as my normal non-root user and su'ed to root. As I was
logged in as root and pulling various files from my backups to get my
web server, mail server and other tools running again I happened to
notice that some disk partitions were no longer mounted. The disk I
replaced contains partitions mounted on /, /boot, /var, /space1 and a 1
GB swap partition. /boot and /space1 were missing. I remounted them.
Some time later I noticed the same thing. I remounted them. This kept
happening. Sometimes the /home partition from the second disk would be
missing. This seemed to be happening whenever root logged off or I
exited the kyum (a GUI for yum) application. I was using that to add
additional packages I needed. The / and /var partitions never
disappeared. It looked like any partition with no open files were being
unmounted.
Here's what I did to try to figure out what was happening. I renamed
/bin/umount to /bin/umount-real. I then wrote a quick script for
/bin/umount that would append to a file the time and date and the output
from "ps -ef". Then it would call /bin/umount-real with whatever
arguments had been passed to it. I forced the problem to happen again
and then looked at the file my script had written. I caught a umount
from the ps output. Here are the entries tracking parent and child PIDs
back to the hald daemon:
68 1850 1 0 Apr28 ? 00:00:03 hald
root 1851 1850 0 Apr28 ? 00:00:00 hald-runner
root 23576 1851 0 22:33 ? 00:00:00 /bin/bash
/usr/share/hal/scripts/hal-system-storage-unmount
root 23577 23576 0 22:33 ? 00:00:00 /bin/bash
/usr/share/hal/scripts/hal-system-storage-unmount
root 23578 23577 0 22:33 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /bin/umount /home
root 23580 23578 0 22:33 ? 00:00:00 ps -ef
(The 68 as the UID for the first line is because the username is 9
characters long - haldaemon. Apparently that's a known problem with ps
and ls when the username is >8 characters.)
I tried googling for this and looking through the archives of this list
but did not find anything (yet). Does anyone know what is happening
here and how to fix it? These filesystems are mounted at boot time.
Why is hal trying to unmount them? They are not removable media.
I'm sure there is more information needed that I have not supplied so
just ask and I'll respond. If this is a known problem with a known fix,
just point me in the right direction. If something I've said above is
not clear, let me know and I'll clarify.
Thanks for any help.
Charlie Dennett
18 years
Install reiserfs after the fact?
by awrobinson-ml@nc.rr.com
Can one install/get reiserfs _after_ the installation of Fedora? I am
adding a disk for audio and video files and I'd like to use the reiserfs
file system. However, when I installed, I did not say "linux reiserfs".
All the howtos I've found so far about using the reiserfs start with
"linux reiserfs".
Thanks!
Andrew Robinson
(My apologies if this is a repeat. I never saw the original go through)
18 years
yum update and clamav - not working from 0.88.1-1 to 0.88-2
by Gerald B. Cox
I noticed this message in my log:
WARNING: Local version: 0.88.1 Recommended version: 0.88.2
So...I checked the extra repository and found two versions of clamav,
clamav-data, clamav-devel, etc...
The versions are 0.88.1-1 (which I have on my system)
and 0.88-2 (which I guess I need to upgrade to...)
However, when I do a "yum update" or even specifically, "yum update"
for each package, nothing happens...yum returns with the no updates
found message.
Anyone else run into this, or might know what is going on?
Thanks!
18 years
Upon bootup, how do I do an "xhost + machine" without using a terminal window?
by Gilbert Sebenste
Hello all,
One more question for the gurus this morning, which I couldn't get an
answer to earlier.
I want to start up some programs that require the use of X window :2.
Unfortunately, to do that, I have to physically be at the machine and on a
terminal window, type:
xhost + something.something.com
Which would then allow all X processes to run from that machine.
But I want to do it automatically upon bootup. I tried to do this in
/etc/rc.d/rc.local, but it gives me:
xhost: unable to open display ""
OK. So how do I solve this?
Thank you very much for any help,
Gilbert
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(My opinions only!) ******
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18 years