"No sound" but sound
by Timothy Murphy
Why do I get the boot-time message on my Fedora-8 laptop,
"Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device: default can't be opened for playback (Connection refused)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device",
even though sound seems to be working perfectly well?
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Timothy Murphy
e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
16 years, 2 months
Re: why is fedora/npviewer.bin crippling my system?
by Tom Horsley
> this *is* on a 32-bit system.
Yea, but on fedora 8 they still install a 32 bit nspluginwrapper
by default (I guess the theory is that selinux can be more
paranoid about the plugin helper than it can about all of firefox).
Removing (via yum erase) the plugin wrapper helped me (though I seem
to have found some flash apps that infinite loop anyway, even when
running without the wrapper, but it seems to happen a lot more
frequently with the wrapper).
16 years, 2 months
F7 K6-2 system losing time
by Kevin Cummings
I'm playing with an old motherboard of mine. Its an AMD K6-2 500MHz
processor, w/384MB PC-100 SDRam (Max amount). Its running the latest F7
kernel, and its losing time. Almost 15 seconds / minute (ouch!). This
motherboard used to run my main home server, running on RH9 & FC2
without any problems with its timekeeping. Now that I'm playing with F7
on it in a *very* minimal system (few server services, X11, nfs, but no
http, no email, etc) its losing time big-time. Even running ntpd can't
keep up with it. In fact, it re-syncs to the correct time only when I
restart ntpd.
Anyone have a clue as what's wrong with it?
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Kevin J. Cummings
kjchome(a)rcn.com
cummings(a)kjchome.homeip.net
cummings(a)kjc386.framingham.ma.us
Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
16 years, 2 months
forcing an fsck? Was "kmail dead in water"
by Gene Heskett
Greetings;
I set the mount count, using "tune2fs -C 200 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00"
which reported no error, but a reboot was normal, so how do I force an e2fsck
against it?
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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)
Small animal kamikaze attack on power supplies
16 years, 2 months
FOG
by tony.chamberlain@lemko.com
We found this software, Fog, for doing backups
(like g4l) and downloaded it. However, there does
not appear to be much (if any) documentation.
The install.txt file is 30 lines long and doesn't really
document how to use it.
Anyone know where to find information?
16 years, 2 months
Samba - why isn't "force user" working as I expect?
by Chris G
At the end of my smb.conf file I have:-
[Scans]
comment = Digikam scans for chrisx
path = /home/chrisx/pictures/Scans
writeable = yes
force user = chrisx
[xpIsbd]
comment = ISBD on XP
path = /home/isbd/xpIsbd
writeable = yes
force user = isbd
I thought this would mean that when I connect to these shares from my
XP machine (on which I am user chris) any files and/or directories I
create there would be created as users chrisx and isbd respectively.
However it's not working, I can connect to the shares without any
problem but files/directories are always created with owner chris.
What am I doing wrong?
(This is samba 3.0.28a on Fedora 8)
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Chris Green
16 years, 2 months
Samba problem, can't connect as a different user
by Chris G
I am trying to connect to several shares on my Fedora 8 system as
different users from a Windows XP system.
I can't get the "Connect using a different user name" from XP to work
at all. I can only ever connect as the user I'm logged on to the XP
system as. I want to connect as a different user to one particular
share so I don't have to open up the write permissions.
Has anyone else used this and got it to work?
When I try "Connect using a different user name" I enter a valid samba
user and password but it always fails and asks for the user name and
password again. Even if I enter the user name that I already am in
the boxes it fails. Does the user name need some sort of domain
prefix or something?
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Chris Green
16 years, 2 months
Bug backlog - now and future. Some proposals.
by Jon Stanley
Hear ye, hear ye! At the BugZappers meeting that occurred today,
March 12, 2008, two proposals for dealing with the backlog of bugs,
both now and in the future, were discussed. It was also discussed
that this would be another useful forum to solicit feedback from. Our
goal here is not to disenfranchise bug reporters or cause them more
work. Instead, it is designed to introduce predictability into the
lifecycle of a bug. This is part of the relaunch of the BugZappers
initiative, which I had announced yesterday. It's important to note,
that while you're just now starting to see stuff from us visibly, this
has been several months in the making and thought through very
thoroughly.
These proposals will be presented at the meeting of the Fedora
Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) tomorrow, with a vote to be
rendered on 2008-03-20 if necessary, and execution to begin shortly
thereafter. Please feel free to make comments by replying to this
e-mail or editing the wiki. We also hang out in #fedora-qa on
freenode (my nick is jds2001), and our mailing list is
fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com for other ways to make contact with us.
The purpose of the meeting today was to solicit input on proposals for
dealing with the current unmanageable backlog of bugs. In the long
term, this backlog will cause Fedora irreparable harm, if it has not
already. Our most valuable asset, the bug reporter, is feeling left
out in the cold. Community triagers feel discouraged by what they see
as a insurmountable task, thereby making the problem feed on itself.
We have to act, and the time to do it is now.
To that end, I am proud to present two proposals, One has to do with
dealing with the backlog that we have now, and the other has to do
with making sure we never get into this situation again -- ever. We
believe that these proposals are the right thing to do, and now is the
right time to do them, right before a release.
I'd also like to give credit where it's due for these proposals. The
primary author of both of them is John Poelstra, without whom many of
the things that have been accomplished to date would not have been. In
just a few short months, we've gone from having almost nothing
formalized to having a formal bug workflow, and having formal plans of
dealing with the backlog, both now and in the future.
It's important to note that these are PROPOSALS at the current time,
and have not been approved in any way. I am expecting, and welcome,
impassioned debate on these proposals. In the course of these debates,
however, lets be civil with one another - we're allresponsible adults
here. If you have comments or concerns about either of the proposals,
there's a comments section at the bottom of both of them on the wiki,
which I encourage you to use. Also, please come to the meeting and/or
reply to this e-mail if you have comments. Please try to back up
changes to the proposals with a specific example of where the proposed
action is wrong/bad/whatever, and what could be done differently to
alleviate the concern.
Also note that the framework of the proposals is there. The exact text
to be found in bugs is still yet to be written, however that will be
written in the next week or so. I realize that both this introduction
and the proposals themselves are extremely long, but please read them!
The wiki versions of these proposals can be found at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JohnPoelstra/BugzillaExtremeMakeOver
16 years, 2 months
Ldap, Pam, Nss, Samba
by Thomas Paine
I have a server that I use as a domain controller with samba. It's
fairly simple, I don't have ldap or pam or nss.
I need to add ldap functionality to it, and I also need to make global
address books available to the Outlook users for a new email gateway
we will be using.
Is open ldap all I need? I've been reading samba 3 by example and am
unsure what all I need to get going.
Anyone have some time to communicate with me off list about this? On
list is fine too, I jsut didn't want to add too much noise.
Thanks.
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-=/>Thom
16 years, 2 months