F10: The good and the bad
by lanas
Hi all,
Last time when F9 was made available, I wrote a good/bad article that
was mostly bad and ended up 'upgrading' my main workstation to F8.
This time around, being forwarned, I did not install enthusiastically
F10 on the main workstation. I tried it in VmWare first, then
installed it on a spare WS, 32-bit version.
Well, it's much better now, to the point that I won't take it off the
workstation. But there are some annoying things, which are not major.
- Konsole: cannot seemingly disable the menu bar, as in previous
versions. Everything else can be disabled, and saved as such, but not
the menu bar. If you remove it and open another tab, then it
re-appears.
- Konqueror: stupid bug that does not work with clusty.com. Now, I
may be part of the weirdo club you know, the ones who are using
Konqueror, a lot of Konsoles, and not Google but Clusty. Well, try
this: do a search using clusty.com, go to the bottom of the page and
press next. The search criteria vanishes. Use Firefox: it works. Use
Konqueror in F8: it works. Stupid bug. I hope it does not have more
impacts.
- gkrell: no gkrell ?
- Two other bugs, not seen twice so far:
- Suddenly the session locks up, blanking the screen and asking for
a password. No keyboard input possible. Had to power-cycle the
machine. Hopefully this will not happen again.
- The auto upgrade app: at 40%, asks for trusting a key, answer is
yes, enter password, and then no more downloads, ever. No way out, had
to kill the process.
On the down side in general, home-wise, I don't think I will switch
from Fedora 6 yet as far as music recording (jack, Ardour, Seq24,
Zynaddsubfx, jamin, etc...) as I do not have the impression
All in all a great release. Transpareny is nice, but don't try it in
VmWare: crash. Also, the font misadjustments seen in VmWare are not
found when doing a real install. Undoubtly a video settings query
thing.
I think I was right with the even numbers. I have good experiences
with 6,8, and now 10. Bad with 7 and 9. Before you ask, I won't try
13 ;-)
Cheers.
15 years, 5 months
F8 > F9 Preupgrade
by Frank Murphy
from terminal typed sudo preupgrade
When window opened F9 was not available as an upgrade option just F10.
ver: preupgrade-1.0.0-1.fc8
Frank
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15 years, 5 months
kdetv no longer works in f10
by Farkas Levente
hi,
in f10 kdetv no longer works with my Avermedia AVerTV GO 007 FM tunner
card. it was working properly in f9 with this /etc/modprobe.conf
---------------------------------
options snd cards_limit=8
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-hda-intel index=0
alias snd-card-1 saa7134-alsa
options saa7134 card=57 tuner=54 alsa=1
install saa7134 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install saa7134; /sbin/modprobe
saa7134-alsa
options saa7134-alsa index=1
----------------------------------
is there any tip?
mplayer tv://1 -tv device=/dev/video1
still working:-(
this is the filtered dmesg part:
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saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.14 loaded
saa7134 0000:07:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
saa7133[0]: found at 0000:07:02.0, rev: 209, irq: 18, latency: 32, mmio:
0xe3004800
saa7133[0]: subsystem: 1461:f31d, board: Avermedia AVerTV GO 007 FM
[card=57,insmod option]
saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 80648
input: saa7134 IR (Avermedia AVerTV GO as
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:07:02.0/input/input8
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 61 14 1d f3 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 10: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 20: ff d2 fe ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 90: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom a0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom b0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom c0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom d0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom e0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom f0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
tuner' 1-004b: chip found @ 0x96 (saa7133[0])
tda829x 1-004b: setting tuner address to 61
tda829x 1-004b: type set to tda8290+75a
saa7133[0]: registered device video1 [v4l2]
saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0
saa7133[0]: registered device radio0
saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded
saa7133[0]/alsa: saa7133[0] at 0xe3004800 irq 18 registered as card 1
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15 years, 5 months
gvfs total wierdness
by Jonathan Ryshpan
There's a file named .gvfs in my home directory that is totally
unaccessible. Here's a couple of tries, both run as root:
# ls -l .gvfs
ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied
# ls -lA
...
-rw-r--r-- 1 jonrysh jonrysh 181 Aug 17 22:16 .gtk-custom-papers
-rw-r--r-- 1 jonrysh jonrysh 89 Dec 6 2007 .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .gvfs
drwx------ 2 jonrysh jonrysh 4096 Nov 27 14:25 .icedteaplugin
drwxrwxr-x 2 jonrysh jonrysh 4096 Dec 4 2007 .icons
...
What is this file? Should I delete it? Can I delete it?
Thanks - jon
15 years, 5 months
F10 hard lock issue
by Richard Shaw
I just upgraded my wife's laptop to F10 from F9 using preupgrade.
other than not having enough free space (had to make some) the install
went perfectly. Now I'm having a lockup issue.
When it first starts everything hard locks. Then I hear the DvD head
moving, some time later I can turn the caps lock on and off but there
is a significant delay. Also, the mouse cursor works but nothing else
does. I can't do Ctl-Alt-Backspace or get to any of the virtual
terminals. Scanning through /var/log/messages I don't see anything
useful. Any ideas on where to start? This thing was rock solid under
F9.
Compaq laptop Turion 64 1.8GHz w/ Radeon 200M chipset. 1GB system ram.
Broadcom wireless using native driver.
Thanks,
Richard
15 years, 5 months
using local imap as proxy
by Christoph Höger
Hi folks,
because of the sluggish performance and poor QoS of my current
university's imap server, I thought of using some kind of proxy.
That means, I would like to install a daemon that does two things:
1. sync local data with the remote imap account
2. sync local changes back to the remote account
So a solution like fetchmail does not fit, I would rather like to use a
leightweight imap server locally that does nothing but keeping in sync
with the remote host. offlineimap seems to be a solution, but it only
seems to work once on invokation, I need a daemon running and
permanently syncing all folders, as I sometime switch workplaces fast.
Can e.g. cyrus do that? Any IMAP server?
15 years, 5 months
Webcam Issues on F10
by Richard Heck
This kind of issue seems to have been reported in other places, but I
thought I'd try here as well in case anyone had some ideas.
I have an HP webcam that works perfectly in F8. On installing F10,
however, it has completely stopped working. I see similar problems in
cheese, skype, kopete, and even uvccapture. When a program tries to
access the cam, I get errors like:
uvcvideo: Failed to query (1) UVC control 1 (unit 0) : -110 (exp. 26).
And other similar things, depending upon the exact program. Kopete is
the worst offender: It freezes and then crashes when you try to open
Preferences.
I've tried fiddling with the permissions on /dev/video0, but to no avail.
Richard
15 years, 5 months
"File descriptor 5 left open"
by Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Now that I upgraded to F-10 on my main machine, I'm getting root email
from cron every time my tar-based backup runs.
To: root(a)XXX.com
Subject: Cron <root@arbol> run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:46:54 -0800 (PST)
/etc/cron.hourly/ZZZdo-backup:
File descriptor 5 left open
File descriptor 5 left open
This may be related to LVM. One of the steps of the homegrown backup
process is to make an LVM snapshot partition and back that up instead
of the live filesystem.
Are other folks seeing this? Is anyone else using snapshots? (They
are pretty cool!)
-wolfgang
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15 years, 5 months
F10 nfs installs
by Frank Cox
Two related questions:
I created a bootable CD from images/boot.iso on the F10 DVD iso. I put the
iso file on my fileserver, then booted from the bootable CD that I just created
and told the installer to do a NFS install and pointed it to the directory on
my fileserver where the iso image was. It complained that it can't find the
files and keeps adding "images/install.img" to the path that I entered.
Therefore, I'm thinking that the nfs installer can no longer look inside of the
iso image to find the files but I will now have to copy the files out onto a
real directory on the fileserver so the installer can find them. The nfs
installer used to be smart enough to just look inside of the iso, so has that
capability gone away?
Second, there used to be a file called images/diskboot.img that you could just
copy to a usb flash drive using dd which you could then boot from to do a nfs
install. That file seems to no longer be present. I would prefer not to have
to install from a live image but rather to just do a "regular" nfs install from
my fileserver, so how can I create a bootable usb flash drive to make that
happen?
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15 years, 5 months