Appropriate list for RPM/spec building questions?
by Timothy Selivanow
What is the appropriate list to post questions about building packages
and spec file creation? Fedora-mentors-list? Fedora-packaging? I'm
trying to make a package for pysvn [http://pysvn.tigris.org/] and am
running into some...difficulties.
--Tim
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16 years, 4 months
Re: more Fedora Cookbook: VNC
by Tom Horsley
From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday(a)crashcourse.ca>
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> yes, yes, it's really basic stuff but ...
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> http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Configuring_VNC
Speaking of VNC, I noticed a weirdness - after connecting to my
system remotely using a VNC session (not a copy of my main screen,
just a separate VNC server), I now get a stoopid popup about
X11 and Gnome keyboard settings being different when I login
to my main console display. Anyone know what is going on there?
16 years, 4 months
close to a wireless connection newbie
by Jan Brosius
Hello,
I think that I am close to a wireless connection with my laptop.
Here is the information.
I work with networkmanager
With System>Administration>Network I have created besides the device
eth0 two other devices for connection to the internet:
1. Device ppp0 of type xDSL : my wired connection to the internet
wherein I have been able to give my password and my username
2. Device wlan of type wireless (mode managed, ssid : auto).
With networkmanager I can connect this device to a wireless network
named WIFI_A6. Everything is detected : DNS etc.
However I need to give to device wlan my username and password (my
internet connection is adsl PPPoE).
Is there any way to give username and password to device wlan,
Thanks for any help
Jan Brosius
16 years, 4 months
F7 yum update segfaults
by Dave Stevens
anyone else seeing this?
Dave
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lens, taking into account the values of the people affected by government
decisions. Any model of sustainability that is driven solely by an economic
engine is deficient if it is incapable of taking into account social values.
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Columbia,2007
16 years, 4 months
Adobe Reader AdobeReader_enu-7.0.9-1 Problem in Fedora 8
by Leslie S Satenstein
I have the subject software installed (64bit Fedora), What I noticed, with compiz active (and not tested without it active), is that ADOBE reader works fine until one does a quit.
Adobe appears to quit, but a process is left in memory, to churn away. It is quiet for a while, then begins to consume considerable CPU cycles, and then returns to quiet.
If a second file is loaded in the Reader, it works fine, and may even quit normally after the second file (only one file at a time).
If one has a file already loaded, and we read another pdf file (2 in memory) Adobe exhibits the same problem upon quiting.
A kill frees up about 10% cpu, as reported by top.
My system Intel 930 (dual core) , 3 gigs memory, and Fedora 8, 64bit.
Can someone collaborate my findings?
Leslie
16 years, 4 months
F8-x86_64 dccm problem & confusion
by Gene Heskett
Greetings;
2nd send, no reply to 1st.
Trying to make synce work on my lappy. Its an F8 x86_64 install on an HP
dv5120us Notebook.
1) the error message when trying to start the synce-trayicon is missleading as
it names a failure to start dccm as a major problem, but parks itself in the
tray anyway.
2) starting synce-software-manager doesn't complain, but doesn't show anything
either. No pulldown config menu's or anything but the add-subtract etc
buttons. Is this the correct behaviour?
3) I finally installed the smart package manager because the updater appears
to have been dumbed down until it just barely survives. Using the search
function of SPM, I find that the package is actually named vdccm, and is
supposed to replace the dccm in the synce-kde package. Thats fine, but there
is no 'dccm' in the synce-kde package. And all the vdccm stuff that's
non-devel is installed already.
4) as user, do "strace /usr/bin/vdccm", which begins the failure stanza with a
getuid() = 500
setresuid(-1, 500, -1) = 0
setresuid(-1, 0, -1) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
getuid() = 500
geteuid() = 500
write(2, "[int main(int, char**)53:] ",27[int main(int, char**):53] ) = 27
write(2, "Could not start - either because"...,90Could not start - either
because vdccm is not installed suid, or you start directly as root) = 90
So I become root with an su - and repeat, and get essentially that same exact
output but without the setresuid's -EPERM return, it and the following
setresuid's are all = 0 this time:
getuid() = 0
setresuid(-1, 0, -1) = 0
setresuid(-1, 0, -1) = 0
getuid() = 0
geteuid() = 0
write(2, "[int main(int, char**)53:] ",27[int main(int, char**):53] ) = 27
write(2, "Could not start - either because"...,90Could not start - either
because vdccm is not installed suid, or you start directly as root) = 90
This does not appear to be an selinux problem, but a packaging problem, so how
do I fix the already installed /usr/bin/vdccm?
Its perms now read -rwsr-xr-x according to ls -l.
And 5) will this fix the synce-trayicon since its error message says dccm, not
vdccm?
6) what's the relationship to raki, do they clash and fsck things up fighting
over resources?
Thanks.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Veni, Vidi, VISA:
I came, I saw, I did a little shopping.
16 years, 4 months
Sound configuration needs tweaked
by Mike Chambers
I have noticed that for me to get sound, is to go to below menu..
Menu/Sound & Video/Pulse Audio Volume Control
And then to get streams to work, I have to right click on the stream
(while it is trying to play) and move the default to my sound card
instead of my onboard sound. And the same for output and input devices,
right click on the default sound card and select default.
I then have sound and can hear from the websites and everything else.
So my question, is there something I can configure/remove/add to get the
defaults selected automatically upon login and not ahve to do this every
single time?
I don't remember doing this before I did another install couple days
ago, so am wondering what I had done before to get it to all work.
Any ideas?
--
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY
"The best lil town on Earth!"
16 years, 4 months
How can I reconfigure Xwindows?
by Tolun ARDAHANLI
Hi;
I want to know that How can I reconfigure Xwindows?
Thanks...
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E-posta:tolun.ardahanli@linux.org.tr
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16 years, 4 months
snmpwalk? (related to hplip)
by Neal Becker
/usr/share/doc/hplip-2.7.7/troubleshooting/network.html says to test using
snmpwalk. I can't find this on F8.
yum provides snmpwalk
...
No Matches found
Any hints? Or, better still, any hint why hplip doesn't find my ethernet
printer? (Yes, the printer works fine, and I can print to it).
16 years, 4 months