updates without password?
by Valent Turkovic
How can I configure pup so that it doesn't ask for root password every
time I need to do an update?
Cheers,
Valent.
16 years, 4 months
[YLUG] D-link
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
I am a D-link card DWL-G650 (AirPlus) B5 ver. 2.54 which was working
fine with Fedora 4. I upgraded to Fedora 6 and when I do
modprobe ndiswrapper, it just freezes the Laptop and I need to restart it.
In fact the driver seems OK since just after I make the "modprobe ndiswrapper",
the LEDs blink like they should, but I have to restart the
computer.
ndiswapper -l seems OK
The package is kmod-ndiswrapper-1.46-1.2
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Patrick Dupré pd520(a)york.ac.uk
University of York Department of Chemistry
Heslington, York YO10 5DD United Kingdom
Phone: +44-(0)-1904-434384 Fax: +44-(0)-1904-432516
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16 years, 4 months
Virtualizing Windows Vista
by SternData
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It sure would be nice to run Windows Vista on my Linux desktop for a few
work-related tasks. This machine already dual-boots. I want to be able
to copy/paste from one environment to the other.
Wine provides an emulation environment -- I'm looking for real Windows.
I've read about Xen and we're using VMWare Enterprise at the office.
I'm unclear about the first, and I can't afford the second for a home
solution.
Is this something anyone is doing on Fedora? If so, what are your
recommendations and caveats?
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~ Steve
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16 years, 4 months
yum and multiple architectures... more pain!
by Andrea
More nightmares trying to remove a devel package from Fedora 8 on PS3.
I'd like to replace alsa-lib-devel.ppc64 with alsa-lib-devel.ppc.
Why does yum want to remove all those ppc devel packages when I ask to remove a ppc64 devel?
[root@ps3 ~]# yum erase alsa-lib-devel.ppc64
.....
Dependencies Resolved
=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Removing:
alsa-lib-devel ppc64 1.0.15-1.fc8 installed 8.2 M
Removing for dependencies:
SDL-devel ppc 1.2.13-2.fc8 installed 1.4 M
SDL-devel ppc64 1.2.13-2.fc8 installed 1.4 M
eel2-devel ppc64 2.20.0-1.fc8 installed 214 k
eel2-devel ppc 2.20.0-1.fc8 installed 214 k
esound-devel ppc64 1:0.2.38-6.fc8 installed 22 k
evolution-data-server-devel ppc64 1.12.3-2.fc8 installed 5.9 M
evolution-data-server-devel ppc 1.12.3-2.fc8 installed 5.9 M
gnome-desktop-devel ppc 2.20.3-1.fc8 installed 191 k
gnome-desktop-devel ppc64 2.20.3-1.fc8 installed 191 k
gnome-panel-devel ppc64 2.20.3-1.fc8 installed 177 k
gnome-panel-devel ppc 2.20.3-1.fc8 installed 177 k
gnome-pilot-devel ppc64 2.0.15-10.fc8 installed 164 k
gnome-pilot-devel ppc 2.0.15-10.fc8 installed 164 k
libbonoboui-devel ppc64 2.20.0-1.fc8 installed 1.0 M
libbonoboui-devel ppc 2.20.0-1.fc8 installed 1.0 M
libcroco-devel ppc64 0.6.1-3.fc8 installed 110 k
libgnome-devel ppc 2.20.1-2.fc8 installed 537 k
libgnome-devel ppc64 2.20.1-2.fc8 installed 537 k
libgnomeui-devel ppc 2.20.1.1-1.fc8 installed 2.4 M
libgnomeui-devel ppc64 2.20.1.1-1.fc8 installed 2.4 M
librsvg2-devel ppc64 2.18.2-2.fc8 installed 92 k
Even more strange when I try to reinstall SDL-devel.ppc (which had been removed as depending on
alsa-lib-devel.ppc64) I get
[root@ps3 ~]# yum install SDL-devel.ppc
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package SDL-devel.ppc 0:1.2.13-2.fc8 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: alsa-lib-devel for package: SDL-devel
--> Running transaction check
---> Package alsa-lib-devel.ppc 0:1.0.15-1.fc8 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
SDL-devel ppc 1.2.13-2.fc8 updates 373 k
Installing for dependencies:
alsa-lib-devel ppc 1.0.15-1.fc8 fedora 989 k
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 2 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
What? It only needs alsa-lib-devel.ppc? So why has it been removed?
How can it be correct?
Are we sure yum is not fooled by the fact that the string "ppc" is contained in "ppc64"? Or
something else?
16 years, 4 months
yum and multiple architectures... help!
by Andrea
Hi,
I've been trying to understand how yum is meant to work when a system supports multiple architectures.
My case is Fedora 8 on PS3, architectures ppc and ppc64.
Example 1 (gdb):
1) who owns /usr/bin/gdb
[root@ps3 ~]# rpm -q -f $(which gdb) --queryformat
'%{Name},"%{Version}","%{Vendor}","%{Group}","%{License}",%{Arch}"\n'
gdb,"6.6","Fedora Project","Development/Debuggers","GPL",ppc"
gdb,"6.6","Fedora Project","Development/Debuggers","GPL",ppc64"
2) which gdb is it?
[root@ps3 ~]# file $(which gdb)
/usr/bin/gdb: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, PowerPC or cisco 4500, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked
(uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, stripped
3) how do I get gdb.ppc64?
The only way I've found is: remove both of them, reinstall gdb.ppc64. It does not look right to me!
It should at least complain!
They are not the same. gdb.ppc only debugs 32bit apps, while gdb.ppc64 works for 64bit apps!
I thought that there cannot be 2 packages providing the same file as in the following:
Example 2 (alsa-lib-devel):
1) which alsa-lib-devel do I have already?
[root@ps3 ~]# rpm -q alsa-lib-devel --queryformat
'%{Name},"%{Version}","%{Vendor}","%{Group}","%{License}",%{Arch}"\n'
alsa-lib-devel,"1.0.15","Fedora Project","Development/Libraries","LGPLv2+",ppc64"
2) let's add the ppc version
[root@ps3 ~]# yum install alsa-lib-devel.ppc
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package alsa-lib-devel.ppc 0:1.0.15-1.fc8 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
alsa-lib-devel ppc 1.0.15-1.fc8 fedora 989 k
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 1 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 989 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/share/doc/alsa-lib-devel-1.0.15/doxygen/html/_2test_2latency_8c-example.html from
install of alsa-lib-devel-1.0.15-1.fc8.ppc conflicts with file from package
alsa-lib-devel-1.0.15-1.fc8.ppc64
and so on for many other files.
How it is meant to be used?
Andrea
16 years, 4 months
Home network backup solutions?
by Reid Rivenburgh
Hi. I have a small network at home consisting of one wired, always-on
F8 desktop (mine), a roving Mac laptop running OS X, and a rarely-on
Windows XP laptop. The laptops are wireless. I also have a new 500
GB external hard drive that some of you may remember. The Mac user
was thinking about getting a drive for herself to do backups using
Time Machine or whatever Apple's backup app is. But we figured there
ought to be a way to backup to my desktop/hard drive. I looked around
and found BackupPC. It sounds like it'd do the job, if I could figure
it out. (I'm having trouble discovering the Mac on the network
[doesn't respond to nmblookup], and I have a feeling if I can get past
that, I will have additional trouble getting rsync or tar to work
there....) I thought I'd check here to see if there's anything else
out there that would work. Ideally, it would be transparent to the
clients, automatic when they're on the network, incremental.... You
know, um, everything BackupPC does! Free and open source would be
best....
Thanks,
Reid
16 years, 4 months
Problems creating a new user
by Brent Snow, Mr.
Hi All,
We work in a University environment with users all users
having homes on centrally located server, with computers running around
the campus. We are running Fedora Core 5, 6, 7 (kind of a mix). All of
the homes are shared via NFS, with NIS doing being used for the
auto.home to mount homes when a user logs on to the system. All of the
systems use LDAP and are part of our Windows Active Directory, for
password authentication.
Recently I needed to create a new home for a user (I crated
the home on the server) then had the user log into Fedora with her
Windows account information. Instead of crating all of the "DOT" files
and profile settings etc. The desktop just complained that it could not
find the files it needed and would not continue. I checked to make sure
that she has full access to the directory (home) and that it is owned by
the right user. Still it will not create the right files. I have tried
coping the files from another user and changing owner to this user, yet
the system still refused to access the files, complaining that they did
not match and could not find X.
Any ideas?
Thanks in Advance.
Brent
16 years, 4 months
Gnome VFS: user-id on ext3
by Christoph Höger
Hi,
i have a LUKS encrypted usb-stick which I formatted using ext3 because
of the journaling.
What I did not consider was the extended attributes which are saved
along with each file. What led to a problem on sytems where I had a
different uid. Is it possible to force gnome-mount to use a specific
user on a mount point (simple chown if needed) or do I have to choose
between journaling (ext3) and "userless" partition (VFAT)?
regards
christoph
16 years, 4 months
Fedora 8: tcsh .history file destroyed on exit?
by James Frye
Hi,
I've just installed Fedora 8 on a new machine (Lenovo T61p), and am having
problems getting
tcsh to run correctly. The main problem is that when I exit, the .history
file is destroyed. It's
not that the current session history is not saved. I copied a .history
file from my older machine
loaded it, and the history mechanism works as expected for that session.
On restart, though,
I find that the .history file has been truncated to 0 bytes.
I have two perhaps related other problems. First, tcsh was not installed
by the install system. I
had to compile it from source. Second, the root user does not source
its .tcshrc file when I su
or log in as root. I have to do this manually.
If it helps, I run xterm under the fvwm2 window manage, and am using a
system setup that was
copied from the Fedora 7 install on my previous machine, and which have
worked with various
Fedora versions going back to 3 (IIRC), as well as other distros.
Thanks,
James
16 years, 4 months