flash crash in firefox on youtube
by Paul Johnson
On my 2 Fedora 8 systems, I have this problem today for the first
time. In Firefox, while browsing youtube, my system will crash when
opening flv files. Generally, I can view one show, and then when I
click another one, the whole browser disappears. It does not lock up
at all, it just dies. It does not affect any other programs.
I have not gone to youtube for a few weeks, and so I can't say if this
problem is actually new, or if I just happened up on it.
Would you please browse to youtube and try to watch a few and see if
you get the same outcome? If you don't, it will mean I've made the
exact same configuration mistake on both of my systems. I've moved
~/.mozilla and ~/.macromedia out of the way, same result.
Here are the version numbers:
$ rpm -qa | grep flash
libflashsupport-000-0.1.svn20070904
flash-plugin-9.0.115.0-release
$ rpm -qa | grep firefox
firefox-devel-2.0.0.12-1.fc8
firefox-2.0.0.12-1.fc8
$ uname -r
2.6.24.3-34.fc8
Another thing in common is the Nvidia proprietary driver from livna.
pj
--
Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas
16 years, 1 month
Re: What's all the hype over Ubuntu?
by Jonathan Roberts
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> they dont have the political bullshit that fuckdora does.
> nor are they controlled by U.S laws which leads to more freedom for
> others, I do know its hard for yanks to understand, but there are other
> countries out there, countries that wont be dictated to by the U.S and
> have their own acts of parliment, laws and policies. Just becasue
somthing
> is taboo in the U.S doesnt mean it is anywhere else.
You do realise that just because there aren't software patents in other
countries now, that won't always be the case, right?
You do realise that here in the UK and EU there are almost constant
attempts to introduce software patents for more and more cases, right?
You do realise that copyright laws apply here, and that proprietary
software is proprietary where ever you are in the world, right?
And that all this means that the work that Fedora does, promoting free and
open alternatives is very important for everyone in the whole world? And
that people working on this project have signed up under those terms and
that we all contribute under those terms, to change things and make them
better for all?
Maybe you don't care about freedom...I know I do, and that's one of the
number one reasons why I choose Fedora. Not forgetting the fact that it's
leading the free software world in many technical aspects too. But that's
just me.
/me looks guilty for taking the flame bait :S
Jon
16 years, 1 month
Burning DVD's with K3b during vmware is running
by Joachim Backes
Hi,
in F8, if i burn a DVD with K3B during vmware is running, then the verification of the burned DVD
shows errors (the burning device is my vmware CD).
If I stop vmware before burning, then burned DVD's are OK.
Did somebody make similar experiences? And can i prevent from this problem unless stopping vmware
during burning?
Regards
--
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de>
University of Kaiserslautern,Computer Center [RHRK],
Systems and Operations, High Performance Computing,
D-67653 Kaiserslautern, PO Box 3049, Germany
--------------------------------------------------
Phone: +49-631-205-2438, FAX: +49-631-205-3056
16 years, 1 month
kget takes 100% of cpu
by hicham
hello
in F8 and F7 as well , kget takes almost 100% cpu load while downloading ,
just a bug report , it's annoying
thanks
hicham
16 years, 1 month
Re: tweaking printouts
by Michael Klinosky
OK - I tried lp, and got the CPI and LPI where they make good printouts.
But, I don't like the font (it's bold-ish).
I can't find anything in Admin -> Printing, lp's options, or lpoptions
to change it.
Can the font be changed?
16 years, 1 month
FC8 and Netgear FA311
by Jonathan Allen
Hi All,
I have a new machine with an Intel dual core and integrated motherboard
networking - a Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller.
FC8 sees this fine and is working it hard to pull in all the updates and
additional software.
However, I need a second networking card on this machine and the salesman
sold me a Netgear FA311v2, assuring me it was supported by Linux. So the
'Net appears to confirm with a number of people saying that it was working
for them. Sadly, it doesn't seem to be working for me. It wasn't found
at install time, so I have tried adding it in Network Configuration. The
chip on the card is an RTL8139, so I tried that (RTL8139, SMC EZ Card Fast
Ethernet) but it says:
8139too device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialisation
Some of the messages on fedoraforum (although rather old, 2004) suggested
using the 'natsemi' driver, but that produces the same error.
The card is plugged into one of the two free PIC slots and if you plug a
network cable into it, one of the LEDs lights up green.
There doesn't seem to be another suitable candidate in the "Other Ethernet"
option in the "New" sequence. Under the title "Select Ethernet Adapter",
and the drop-down list "Adapter" there aren't any Netgear devices listed
and I'm not sure how to move forward.
What does the team think ?
Jonathan
16 years, 1 month
kmail dead in water, using tbird I hope
by Gene Heskett
I've had several hard lockups over the last day, possibly related to a
tickless kernel2.6.24.1 I could keep running long enough to recompile it
with the usual kilohertz tick, so ATM I'm on one of the older 2.6.23
kernels from the F8 repo's, and kde is 3.5.9
Anyway, kmail (and kontact but I don't use it) is now doing a nearly
instant Signal 11. The kmail.kcrash report sort of points a finger at
libkmailprivate.so, but I've stopped X, had yum rip out kdepim and
kdepim-libs, and then re-install them with no effect on the crash.
So here is the kmail.kcrash text:
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
(no debugging symbols found)
[snip many lines oof this]
(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1208654128 (LWP 25523)]
(no debugging symbols found)
[snip many more lines]
(no debugging symbols found)
[KCrash handler]
#6 0x4f406736 in KMMsgDict::insert () from /usr/lib/libkmailprivate.so
#7 0x4f58414e in KMFolderIndex::fillMessageDict ()
from /usr/lib/libkmailprivate.so
#8 0x4f40b74e in FolderStorage::invalidateFolder ()
from /usr/lib/libkmailprivate.so
#9 0x4f4c5145 in KMFolderMaildir::createIndexFromContents ()
from /usr/lib/libkmailprivate.so
#10 0x4f4c039c in KMFolderMaildir::open () from /usr/lib/libkmailprivate.so
#11 0x4f5840f2 in KMFolderIndex::fillMessageDict ()
from /usr/lib/libkmailprivate.so
#12 0x4f40b74e in FolderStorage::invalidateFolder ()
from /usr/lib/libkmailprivate.so
#13 0x4f40b7f5 in FolderStorage::readFolderIdsFile ()
from /usr/lib/libkmailprivate.so
#14 0x4f40b821 in FolderStorage::registerWithMessageDict ()
from /usr/lib/libkmailprivate.so
#15 0x4f3ea77b in KMFolder::KMFolder () from /usr/lib/libkmailprivate.so
#16 0x4f42b0e1 in KMFolderDir::reload () from /usr/lib/libkmailprivate.so
#17 0x4f42cb95 in KMFolderMgr::setBasePath () from
/usr/lib/libkmailprivate.so
#18 0x4f42ce7f in KMFolderMgr::KMFolderMgr () from
/usr/lib/libkmailprivate.so
#19 0x4f4d99ff in KMKernel::init () from /usr/lib/libkmailprivate.so
#20 0x0804a031 in QObject::checkConnectArgs ()
#21 0x00b22390 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
#22 0x08049dd1 in QObject::checkConnectArgs ()
That's all folks. Kontact gives a quite similar report.
Does anyone have a clue, I'm beginning to suffer email withdrawal here.
Thanks.
--
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)
While you recently had your problems on the run, they've regrouped and
are making another attack.
16 years, 1 month
Problem trying to setup Drupal on Fedora 8
by Dave Roberts
Okay, so I'm trying to setup Drupal on Fedora 8, using the standard RPMs
for everything, all installed using Yum.
I think I have all the RPMs installed fine. I'm following
the /usr/share/doc/drupal5.7/drupal-README.fedora file
and /usr/share/doc/drupal-5.7/INSTALL.txt file. I'm at Step 3 in
INSTALL.txt, where it says to run the install script. I have gotten
Apache setup correctly, and when I access the http://localhost/drupal/
URL, I get a page that contains the Drupal icon and artwork with the
following Drupal error message:
"The Drupal installer requires write permissions
to ./sites/default/settings.php during the installation process."
Per step 1 in drupal-README.fedora, I already executed a
sudo chmod 666 /etc/drupal/default/settings.php and the file has 666
permissions:
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5976 2007-07-08 21:28 settings.php
I verified that it's writable with a simple touch:
[dave@linux default]$ touch settings.php
[dave@linux default]$ ll
total 12
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5976 2008-03-24 22:01 settings.php
When I look in /usr/share/drupal, I can see that it's symlinked
to /etc/drupal/ :
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2008-03-24 20:47 sites
-> ../../../etc/drupal
Any ideas what's happening here? I have restarted Apache a couple of
times, without success. Not sure if there is some weird SELinux thing
going on here. I don't see any SELinux warnings pop up, but maybe there
is a log file I should be looking in??
Thanks,
-- Dave
16 years, 1 month
installonlypkgs
by david walcroft
Can someone tell me which file I can find installonlypkgs in.
I cannot find it through 'locate'
Thanks david
16 years, 1 month
ssh and port 22 problem, cont.
by Gerhard Magnus
Greetings!
I've made some progress on troubleshooting this "ssh & port 22 problem".
Here was my original post:
When I try to connect from a remote machine to my one at home
using ssh I get the error message "ssh: connect to host 64.146.133.1 port
22: Connection refused" -- but using ssh in the outgoing direction (i.e.
from home to the remote location) works fine.
Here's what's happened since:
I have two machines (PuteA and PuteB) sharing an ActionTec DSL modem. The IP
I was using was that of my "Gateway" ISP (64.146.133.1) -- an error. But
when I used the correct, static IP address of the ActionTec
(64.146.133.52) I got this message:
ssh: connect to host 64.146.133.52 port22: Connection refused
I thought I had port forwarding (for port 22) set correctly on the modem. For
troubleshooting, my ISP advised me to run "tcpdump -n host 192.168.0.2" on
PuteA, where 192.168.0.2 is the "internal" IP of PuteA. Then I logged on
to the remote location from PuteB and tried to ssh from there to PuteA
using the static IP address. The ssh from the remote location timed out
with the same "port 22: connection refused" message. The tcpdump on Pute
A gave this message:
> tcpdump: listening on eth0
> 17:27:33.662753 arp who-has 192.168.0.2 tell 192.168.0.1
where 182.168.0.1 is the "internal" IP of the modem. (Sorry if I have
this terminology wrong.)
My ISP says the problem is the firewall on PuteA and that he doesn't do linux
firewalls.
Here are my replies to the people who responded to my first post:
(1) "Do you have the firewall configured to deny incoming packets to port
22?"
How do I check this?
(2) "You need to check that sshd is running on your system."
Yes. I comes up with each boot. Also "service sshd status" gives
"sshd (pid 787) is running".
(3) "sshd uses /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. Check that they are
configured to allow your remote machine in."
Both files have only commented lines.
(4) "Also, if your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file has VerifyReverseMapping
turned on, you will get kicked out if your remote address does not work
with a reverse dns lookup."
There's a "VerifyReverseMapping no" line in the file but it's been commented
out.
(5) "Just to be sure: when you are at home machine, try 'ssh localhost'.
If this works, you probably need to check your firewall."
It seems to work -- I ssh to the machine itself.
(6) "This is common on every system I have ever loaded with FC2. Your
iptables are blocking the connection. You can do one of the following:
iptables -A INPUT -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 - j ACCEPT"
I tried this. The ssh to PuteA from the remote location still times out.
(7) "Oh yes I also took out the REDHAT firewall entrie as I dont have a
clue as to how to work with it."
I've fiddled endlessly with this "system tool" at each of the three levels
of security as well as using the "customize" option to set eth0 as a
trusted device and to allow incoming ssh. It doesn't show the settings
that actually exist.
(8) "If your fedora box is connected directly to a DSL modem, you should
be able to find your IP address by running ifconfig from the command
line and looking for 'inet addr:' (probably under 'eth0')."
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:81:60:8E
inet addr:192.168.0.4 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2184 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2005 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:1122075 (1.0 Mb) TX bytes:190214 (185.7 Kb)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x3000
Could this be the problem -- the "inet addr" of 192.168.0.4? As far as I
can tell, the modem is 192.168.0.1, PuteA is 192.168.0.2, and PuteB is
192.168.0.3. I haven't set anything as 192.168.0.4.
(9) "nmap 64.146.133.52"
(The 1598 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
Port State Service
23/tcp open telnet
53/tcp open domain
80/tcp open http
Shouldn't ssh be here? And what's telnet doing open? The books have me
scared to death of this... hackers, crackers, script kiddies, etc.
Thanks for the help!
Jerry Magnus
16 years, 1 month