upgrade F8 -> F9 kills settings manager on XFCE
by Globe Trotter
Hi,
I have tried upgrading from F8 -> F9 using both the CDs provided and yum separately on my trusty Thinkpad T61. Both cases went fine without much complaints, but what came up does not have a working settings manager (I click and nothing ever happens) for the XFCE panel. I tried doing this after wiping everything out so that some weird setting of mine was not the issue, but to no avail. Did anyone else have this issue?
Installing FC9 and then doing a yum groupinstall 'XFCE' however does not cause this problem. So, I guess one solution which I wonder about and have not tried is: should I yum groupremove 'XFCE' before the upgrade and then bring it back after upgrade and see what happens? Would that work? I guess my worry is that I will end up with a non-working system and will need to install from scratch.
best,
trotter
15 years, 10 months
Mounting an NFS volume
by Francois
Hi,
I installed Fedora 9 on my laptop, and I got lots of problem with KDE. So
for the first time, I switched to Gnome, and it works like a charm. I'm
discovering it, and I have lots of questions about it, but with tests and
time, it will be ok I guess.
My pb is with NFS.
I have setted up the laptop to get its IP using DHCP. It works wireless
(wifi).
My second computer (main) is connected to the router with a fixed IP
address, and using cable.
I run an NFS server on both computers to be able to mount one from the
other. When I used a fixed IP address on my laptop, it worked fine. But
now I use DHCP, I can't mount an NFS volume of the laptop from my main
computer (but I can ping it with no pb). It works fine when I mount an NFS
volume of my main computer from the laptop.
So, is it something impossible when using DHCP ?
Thank you. Francois
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15 years, 10 months
No longer getting root mail after upgrade to FC9
by ed
I noticed that since I upgraded to FC9 that I no longer receive any root
e-mail (syslog and cron jobs). I use mutt and the last e-mail I received
was the day before I upgraded!
O also noticed that my weekly cron jobs no longer run!
What am I missing?
-
Ed Gurski
Linux User
# 458454 http://counter.li.org
15 years, 10 months
F9 text consoles
by MLists
Have installed F9 on a couple of new PC's and am having some head-scratching
behavior with regard to the text-consoles. Systems boot up just fine, and
the GUI works no problem. However trying to get into any of the text
consoles (ie. CTRL-ALT-F1, F2, F3, etc) the monitor just pops up a
"no-signal" and goes into power save. I know the text consoles are actually
there, and working, because if I blind type and log in on one of the text
consoles and run a command of some sort, I can see the task executing if I
do a ps from a console opened in the GUI. The monitors do just fine in text
mode through the initial part of the boot before the GUI part of the boot
sequence starts... after that nothing.
This one's at the top of my "never seen that before" list... anyone have any
suggestions?
Cheers,
>>>>> Mike <<<<<
15 years, 10 months
fire fox saved psswords
by Mahdi Foladgar
Hello
I upgrade my FC8 to FC9 and firefox to "3 Beta 5"
But All my save password lost. I have my old signons2.txt. how can I retrev
my saved passwords.
All my password encrypted and my new master password same as old.
can any body help me?
15 years, 10 months
Weirdness with Fedora/XP upgrade
by Beartooth Sciurivore
I had downloaded and burned another DVD, which I thought I would
try. I put it into a machine which dual-boots, either to one hard drive
with F8 or rarely to the other, which has XP.
I ran the test on the disk, and all seemed well. The install
began, and then suddenly the whole screen went white, and stayed that
way. When at last I tried to goose it, it wouldn't react to anything, not
even the power switch held down. I finally pulled the plug.
It still boots to XP all right. It offers to boot to F8, the
default, but I didn't check that; maybe I should.
So I put in the DVD from which I had successfully gotten F9 onto
three machines, and told XP to reboot.
It has done the same thing -- gone through the first few steps,
only to sit there with a blank white screen.
The monitor is new, a HP w2207h 1680x1050; but the other two PCs
manage with it, both behind a KVM switch and directly connected. And the
dual-boot machine is much the newest!
What could be doing this, and how do I fix it??
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
C5; D4; F8; P3; U7.10; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
15 years, 10 months
F9 system freeze - how to file a good bug report
by Krzysztof Dubowik
Hi all,
I am experiencing system freezes at boot time or when fiddling with
wireless network configuration. I have LinkSys WMP54G wireless network card
based on the infamous RaLink chip, which I think is the source of my
problems. However, the F9 release notes claim that it should work.
I used the same system in F8 and every other kernel upgrade cause the
system to hang at boot time. Eventually I upgraded to F9 hoping the it will
improve the situation.
When using default boot sequence in F9 my system hangs when starting
haldaemon. And anyway it did not bring the network interface up at boot, so
I had to change the boot sequence. I disabled NetworkManager and I
start "network" service after "wpa_supplicant". Because wpa_supplicant
needs a few moments to negotiate the encryption keys, I moved the "network"
service even further, after haldaemon. Now the network is brought up at
boot, but occasionally wpa_supplicant does not negotiate the encryption
key. If I try to restart wpa_supplicant the system freezes. Every time. And
it freezes so badly that SysRqKey does not work.
I need help on creating a good bug report. The problem is that with the
default configuration my system freezes at boot or goes up without the
network. When I modify the startup sequence it eihter work ok, or I have to
reboot several time in order to get the wpa_supplicant to work in the first
place.
First important question is: which component is responsible? kernel?
wpa_supplicant? hald?
Or maybe I'm using something wrong and I should use the NetworkManager
instead?
Thanks for your help,
--
Krzysztof
15 years, 10 months
Audacious CD Plugin
by Daniel Auger
I've noticed that neither Fedora 8 or 9 includes the cd audio plugin
with Audacious. Oddly enough it looks like there is no way to get this
plugin from either the Fedora or Livna repos. Does anyone know of a
location that has it? The plugin is libcdaudio.so. XMMS does install
this library for itself, but I haven't found a way to get Audacious to
use XMMS's copy.
15 years, 10 months
Fedora 9 PPC DVD wont boot
by Ian Chapman
Hi All,
Has anyone successfully booted the install DVD or install CDs on a
Powermac G4 laptop? No matter what I do, the mac insists they are not
bootable. I had no such issues with earlier versions of Fedora on the
same machine. I've tried the DVDs, the CDs, using the boot.iso all with
the same effect. The sha1sums match the ISOs and they were burnt with
k3b on a PC. The same mac is quite happy booting from say the MacOS X
installation DVD. Any ideas??
--
Ian Chapman.
15 years, 10 months