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installing Fedora 11 on dual-boot machine changes active partition?
by Andre Robatino 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

My father has a dual-boot Vista/Fedora 11 machine, with Grub on the MBR. He recently enabled recommended updates in Vista, and it wanted him to install SP2, but he was unable to. At Stage 3, after rebooting, it got to 100% but then failed and reverted the changes. The associated error number was 80004005. We found that the source of the problem was that the active partition was the Fedora /boot partition, not the Windows one. By using Vista's Disk Management tool to make the Vista partition active again, the problem was solved. Grub doesn't seem to care which partition is active (at least if it's on the MBR). Looking at old saved fdisk output from 2 of my machines, I suspect that F11 changed the active partition, and that in F10 and earlier, the Windows partition was active. Is this new behavior in the F11 installer (to change the active partition, even though Grub doesn't care), and if so, is it deliberate?

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Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces
by RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces? If yes how? Kishore

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SSH and X forwarding not working from my laptop
by Gary Stainburn 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

I'm sure I've reported this a while back but I can't find it in the archives. I'm having a problems connecting from my laptop to a number of my servers. It's not a solid fault, but it's fairly constant at the moment. I have a number of servers FC7 to FC10 that I connect to, as well as a number of FC10 workstations. These all work fine. However from my laptop I get the following when I connect: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. tcsetattr: Interrupted system call Last login: Wed Aug 26 11:13:21 2009 from gary.ringways.co.uk [root@stan ~]# and then once I'm in the BASH command line editing doesn't work. Can anyone suggest where I can start looking into the problem. I'm not too bad with ssh but have no knowledge of xauth, konsole, BASH etc. Gary -- Gary Stainburn This email does not contain private or confidential material as it may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000

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clone a bootable fedora USB drive?
by David L 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

After a recent hard drive crash on my laptop, I've been trying to limp along by installing f11 on a 8GB USB stick. After an installation from a live USB stick to another USB stick, I drove to a local hotspot to update and yum install some stuff that wasn't on the live USB. It took forever to update, not even counting the download time. I'm sure there is a reason, but I was surprised that the original installation took about 7 minutes and it took several hours to update that installation AFTER downloading all of the updated rpms. Anyhoo, now that I've spent most of a day getting the USB stick updated and configured, I want to clone it to another USB stick. I tried a few naive things like copying directories to the backup stick, but ran into boot errors (I think due to different uuids on the backup sticks partitions). What is the right way to clone a fedora installation on a USB stick to a second stick that isn't exactly the same size (they are both 8G, but different models so have slightly different sizes). Thanks, David

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Novatel MC950D 3G-device in fedora 11
by Joerg Bergmann 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

I try to get running a novatel MC950D 3G device in fedora 11. lsusb shows vedor/device as 1410:5010. Any hints? Thank you! Joerg Bergmann

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imac9, 1 GeForce 9400 loads x86_64 live cd, but GeForce GT 130 results in a black screen.
by Justin P. Mattock 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

I've two machines (imac9,1) first one boots the live cd x86_64 GeForce 9400 but the other machine GeForce GT 130 doesn't(using an i386 works barely). any ideas on how to do an install with with the livecd while being in init3? Justin P. Mattock

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Preventing ConsoleKit from interrupting audio when switching consoles.
by William F. Acker WB2FLW +1 303 722 7209 04 Oct '09

04 Oct '09

Hi all, I use speech output for reading the screen. Currently, I'm using espeak compiled to use portaudio. Whenever I switch consoles, I have to wait a few seconds for audio output to resume. I understand that ConsoleKit is responsible for the delay while it figures out if I'm the same user and should be allowed to use the audio device. If anyone knows how to disable this behavior, or knows fore sure that ConsoleKit can't be configured to accomplish this, I'd really like to hear about it. With respect, what I don't need to hear about is how desirable folks think the current behavior is and how I should learn to love it too. Pulseaudio won't help either, until it can be made to run system-wide. TIA. -- Bill in Denver

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latest selinux policy update errors
by Mark Haney 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

Is anyone else seeing these types of failures with the latest selinux updates? libsemanage.semanage_direct_remove: Module dpkg was not found. semodule: Failed on dpkg! error: %trigger(selinux-policy-strict-2.6.4-21.fc7.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 libsemanage.semanage_direct_remove: Module dpkg was not found. semodule: Failed on dpkg! error: %trigger(selinux-policy-strict-2.6.4-23.fc7.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 Should I file a bug report? -- Da mihi sis bubulae frustrum assae, solana tuberosa in modo gallico fricta, ac quassum lactatum coagulatum crassum Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415 Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support

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Issue with OpenOffice.org rpm version of Open Office
by Clint Dilks 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

Hi People, Just a quick note to let those who use the version of OpenOffice from openoffice.org rather than the Fedora repo know that as of today there is a RPM version conflict that means the openoffice.org rpm openoffice.org-ure-1.5.0-9399.i586 will be updated with the Fedora Repo version of this RPM which breaks things. Issue 102851 has been filed with openoffice.org. Have a nice day :)

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Suddenly I can't play audio CDs in F11.
by Aaron Konstam 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

I can mount data CDs and play DVDs when inserted but when I insert an audio CD no icon appears on the Desktop and no audio playing occurs. I checked the previous messages on this problem and the last one said: Dumb question, you did check the state of the option to play audio CDs when inserted, right? Under preferences? Well I can find no such option under System->Preferences. Where is it or is there some other resolution of the problem. This used to work. -- ======================================================================= brokee, n: Someone who buys stocks on the advice of a broker. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net

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