firefox, mplayerplug-in
by francis keyes
Hi All,
I'm using Fedora 7 with firefox-2.0.0.10-2.fc7.
Whenever I try to download an mp3 the file opens in Firefox and starts
playing instead of asking me what I want to do with the file. i thought
this might be the mplayerplug-in at work but removing the plugin with yum
made no change.
I tried Preferences--> Content--> File Types--> Manage but no file types are
listed and I can't add any.
Does nyone know how to tell Firefox what to do with an mp3 file?
Thanks
16 years, 4 months
egroupware, anyone?
by Dave Stevens
Hello the list,
I have been trying to install egroupware on my F7 x86_64 system. I am getting
a recursive error apparently caused by or causing a python version mismatch.
Fortunately the recursion depth is bounded so this below is just the
beginning and end of the error output. I don't know how to deal with this.
Does anyone care to make a suggestion?
Dave
Component: pirut
Summary: TB3242b26e repos.py:278:getAttribute:RuntimeError: maximum recursion
depth exceeded
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/system-install-packages", line 357, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/sbin/system-install-packages", line 353, in main
pkginst.run()
File "/usr/sbin/system-install-packages", line 341, in run
self.doRefresh()
File "/usr/sbin/system-install-packages", line 98, in doRefresh
self.populatePackages()
File "/usr/sbin/system-install-packages", line 278, in populatePackages
self.doRefreshRepos(progress = False)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line 339, in
doRefreshRepos
self.reposSetup(pbar, thisrepo)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line 303, in
reposSetup
self.doTsSetup()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 72, in
doTsSetup
return self._getTs()
and a great deal more like this ending with
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 220, in
populateSack
myrepos = self.listEnabled()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 153, in
listEnabled
if repo.isEnabled():
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 281, in isEnabled
enabled = self.getAttribute('enabled')
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 278, in
getAttribute
return getattr(self, key, None)
RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded
Local variables in innermost frame:
self: livna-development
key: enabled
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Columbia,2007
16 years, 4 months
SATA/ATA
by Timothy Murphy
Can I run a SATA disk with an ATA controller?
One of my disks is about to die,
and I've been looking for a large - say 500GB or larger - disk,
and all the ones I see seem to be SATA.
Alternatively, is it reasonably easy
to find and install a SATA controller in place of an ATA one?
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16 years, 4 months
Port 5431 busy during boot?
by Artur
Hi All,
I have a problem with launching Postgres on port 5431 during boot in Fedora 8.
After boot, after logging in, I can run Postgres on the port without problems.
But when I add the command (su -c 'pg_ctl ...' postgres) to /etc/rc.d/rc.local, I get "Could not bind IPv4 socket: Permission denied".
The same thing occurs when I try tu run the db via standard Postgres boot script /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S36postgres (or renamed to /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S99postgres).
None other postmaster is being run.
Port configured to 5432 and it works fine (but due to circumstances I need 5431, before I start trying other workarounds).
In /etc/services I found port 5431 assigned to park-agent. Is it possible that the service is running only during boot time? Can I switch it off?
Any other causes of port 5431 being busy during boot time?
16 years, 4 months
weird X-server problem
by Jouk Jansen
Hi All,
I'm experiencing problems with the X-server on one (only One!!) of my
machines (all with different hardware)
What I see:
-Most programs display OK.
-Supertux in full-screen displays with an offset to the right of +/- a
quarter of the screen for some users or does not work for at all for
others
-lbreakout2 (from freshrpm) hangs for the same users not able to run
supertux in full-screen mode after quiting. For the others it works
OK. For newly created users it does hang.
-Some programs I run on a OpenVMS system and displaying on this linux
machine crash. Analyzing the problem leads to the fact that the programs
get unexpected events.
-I experience the problem both running gnome and kde
The hardware :
-Asus P4P800 Mobo
-Asus graphics board with Geforce FX chip
-1Gb Ram
Software :
-F8 (fresh installed + updates)
-Nvidia driver from livna
I suspect some configuration problem, but I cannot find anything different
from my other machines.
Can anyone give me some advise please, to get some clue to pinpoint the
problem and hopefully solve it.
Thanks
Jouk
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16 years, 4 months
Viewing a DVD with Totem
by Chris Kottaridis
I have Fedora Core 8 installed and am trying to watch a DVD using Totem.
When I select "Play Disc" it complains that I don't have the right
plugin.
>Totem cannot play this type of media (DVD) because it does not have the
appropriate
>plugins to be able to read from the disc.
>
>Please install the necessary plugins and restart Totem to be able to
play this media.
I already went to Fluendo and got the fluendo-megabundle tarball. That
got me to see .wmv files which was nice.
I do seem to have libdvdread installed. But the truth is the message is
rather vague on what I exactly need.
What RPM's do I need to be able to watch DVD's via Totem ?
Thanks
Chris Kottaridis (chriskot(a)quietwind.net)
16 years, 4 months
Re: How do I turn on DMA for ide-scsi DVD drives
by spmirowski
Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:03:07 -0500
> From: Ric Moore <wayward4now(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: How do I turn on DMA for ide-scsi DVD drives
> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <1202176987.1182.80.camel(a)iam.wayward4now.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 08:04 -0800, spmirowski wrote:
>
>> Alan Cox wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:37:36 -0800
>>> spmirowski <spmirowski(a)shaw.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Back when Fedora handled disc drives as ide, I would use hdparm to turn
>>>> on DMA. Now that Fedora 8 seems to run them as SCSI devices, hdparm
>>>> can't tell them to turn on DMA. Any ideas how to get them blazing fast
>>>> again?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Its always done automatically by libata.
>>>
>>> Alan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> It would appear the issue wasn't DMA, but nvidia-config omitted
>> something from my xorg.conf that allows hardware acceleration for XVideo.
>>
>
> ... and that was? Inquiring minds would like to know! :) Ric
>
>
The appropriate method would have been to make one change at a time in
the conf and test, but
I didn't want to spend that amount of time on it =P My guess is the fix
was in Section "Module".
Here nvidia-config only puts "Load "glx"". In a prior working xorg.conf
I had
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection
At least one of those Loads is for the composite graphics, but I can't
remember which one.
The following was mainly for composite and extra features, thus I
wouldn't expect these to
be part of the fix:
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection
and
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
From Section "Screen" to Section "Device" I moved:
Option "RandRRotation" "True"
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
and added to Section "Device":
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
for composite.
Stephen
16 years, 4 months
upgrading dual boot fedora - partitions
by tns1
I have a dual boot XP + FC3 I am upgrading to FC8. Problem is I don't
remember all those partition mysteries, and I don't want to stomp my XP
install. I don't care if I preserve any of my FC3 files, I just thought
an upgrade might be safer than a fresh install.
When I started to 'upgrade', I got a warning about /dev/hda6 not being
mountable and how I might have problems if I continued, so I quit. The
FC8 installer docs mention there may be (new) problems with unlabeled
partitions, and it does appear that several are not labeled:
/dev/hda1, label=none, type ntfs, ID 7,
cyl: 0 7564
/dev/hda2, label="/boot", type linux, ID 83, cyl: 7565
7575
/dev/hda3, label="/", type linux, ID 83, cyl:
7576 10094
/dev/hda4, label=none, type W95 ext'd LBA, ID f, cyl:10095 10337
/dev/hda5, label=none, type linux swap, ID 82, cyl:10095 10229
/dev/hda6, label=none, typeW95 FAT32 LBA, ID c, cyl:10230 10336
I know that the 1st partition is XP drive C, the next two are linux
/boot and /. The 4th partition is of extended type, which I believe is
split into the 5th and 6th partition. The 5th partition is linux swap,
and I think the 6th partition was just the odd bytes left over after
splitting everything up, and even though it shows up in XP as drive F it
isn't really used.
I added volume labels in XP for partition 1 & 6, but it when I booted in
FC3, it didn't make any difference as far as what $blkid and fdisk
report. I guess volume labels are not the same as partition labels.
If I instead go down the path of a fresh install with FC8 and choose to
make custom partition assignments, the installer shows me a table of
what it thinks I have - very similar to what I get with $fdisk /dev/hda
except the "start" and "end" numbers (cylinders?) are not the same.
For instance instead of
/dev/hda1 start 0 end 7564 as I posted above, the FC8 installer says
/dev/sda1 start 1 end 7120. The other partition numbers differ as well.
Without knowing more about these numbers, it looks like the installer is
going to mess up my XP partition simply because it has the math wrong on
partition size. The installer shows the partition label fields but does
not let me edit them.
So really three questions:
How would I add partition labels if I really needed to?
Do I really need to?
Why doesn't the installer report the same sizes as fdisk?
16 years, 4 months
Problem installing F8 Live to jump drive
by Knute Johnson
I'm trying to install F8 to a USB jump drive. Everything is fine
until it asks for the network setup and then it pops up a dialog that
says 2718MB required for root Back or Exit. My root has 3700MB so I
don't know what the problem is. Anybody know how to get around this
problem?
Thanks,
--
Knute Johnson
Molon Labe...
16 years, 4 months