firefox/thunderbird doesn't render accented characters
by Mike Wright
Hi all,
Currently using f10, although I can't say for certain on which version
this problem appeared.
Both firefox and thunderbird replace accented text with a
black-backgrounded question mark. If I wget these files the characters
display correctly. If I save them from either of the mozilla apps the
files are saved with the replaced characters instead of the originals.
View source on firefox is useless because even the source is mangled but
with thunderbird I can see replacements such as these: =A0, =B9, =E6.
Just in case those get mangled they are "equal-sign capital A zero",
"equal-sign capital B nine", "equal-sign capital E six".
I've tried setting character encoding to utf-8, utf-16, iso-8859-1,
iso-8859-15, windows-1252 with no effect.
This is particularly horrible on the mailing lists where an email will
display properly but when replied-to arrives mangled with black blotches
throughout. The longer the thread the more black appears until it
reaches a point where it is not even worth attempting to read it anymore.
Does anybody know what this is about and what I can do to remedy the
situation?
Thanks for any help,
Mike Wright
14 years, 8 months
[OT] Run LiveUSB on machine that can't boot from usbkey?
by mike cloaked
I have an old laptop that I use for testing new versions of Fedora - however
although it will boot of a physical CD containing a LiveCD (say of F12
Alpha), it is old enough not to be able to boot off usb devices since the
BIOS is not arranged to do so. So a usbkey that contains a LiveCD that works
perfectly well on other machines won't play on this particular machine
(Fijitsu-Siemens Amilo D 6800)
Can anyone point me to a reference to work around this by booting off say an
altered grub stansa in the HD which then refers to a plugged in usbkey to
continue loading the LiveCD files from the usbkey? Or something similar?
I usually try to avoid using optical media if possible for running both
installs and testing LiveCDs.
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14 years, 8 months
RE: [OT] Run LiveUSB on machine that can't boot from usbkey?
by Jackson Byers
> I have an old laptop that I use for testing new versions of Fedora - however
> although it will boot of a physical CD containing a LiveCD (say of F12
> Alpha), it is old enough not to be able to boot off usb devices since the
> BIOS is not arranged to do so. So a usbkey that contains a LiveCD that works
> perfectly well on other machines won't play on this particular machine
> (Fijitsu-Siemens Amilo D 6800)
> Can anyone point me to a reference to work around this by booting off say an
> altered grub stansa in the HD which then refers to a plugged in usbkey to
> continue loading the LiveCD files from the usbkey? Or something similar?
Mike,
maybe my experience with booting from an external usb disk will help.
I also wasn't
"able to boot off usb devices since the BIOS is not arranged to do so"
[either that or I am too dense to properly fiddle with the BIOS].
So, what I did was copy the vmlinuz, initrd.img somewhere
onto my internal HDisks, specifically in my case on /dev/sdb1.
Here is my grub.conf stanza for f10 booting off of the 2nd partition
of my usbdisk, [label rootusb2]
#24...68 -> 29..78
title Fedora (2.6.27.29-170.2.78.fc10.i686)usb2new TEST bootf10usb2 vga=795
root (hd1,0) #sdb1
kernel /bootf10usb2/vmlinuz-2.6.27.29-170.2.78.fc10.i686 ro
root=UUID=8f24a787-132c-4dc8-9126-9d85292e349f quiet vga=795
initrd /bootf10usb2/initrd-2.6.27.29-170.2.78.fc10.i686.img
I also did this recently with an f11 hdinstall into usb3.
Detail:
my usb disk is seen as sdc when booted up into my my main f10 on sda1
but when this bootf10usb2 boots it is seen as sda2, i.e,
disk order is reordered to usb=sda, hd1=sdb, hd2=sdc.
from blkid run from my mainf10on sda1:
/dev/sdc2: LABEL="rootusb2"
UUID="8f24a787-132c-4dc8-9126-9d85292e349f" TYPE="ext3"
However, this does not affect the "root (hd1,0)" for sdb1
ie that retains nonreorderd syntax,
even though when booted up f10usb2 sees sdb1 as sdc1.
This solution is not perfect of course.
I can't just take this external usb as is
to another computer and have this f10usb2 boot up
because the kernel, initrd can't be found.
HTH
Jack
14 years, 8 months
add an extra ip address to fedora server (one net card)
by online.service.com@gmail.com
Hi all,
I like to add an extra ip address to my fedora server. But here is my
ifcfg-eth0 file in under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
TYPE=Ethernet
ONBOOT=yes
there is no IPADDR field. Where possibly i can find "IPADDR" gets defined?
Thanks!
14 years, 8 months
named chroot question
by chloe K
Hi
I already stop the named and killall bind process.
how can I clear the files under named/chroot/proc/ folder as those files are restricted me for tar backup?
/var/named/chroot/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/lo/accept_ra_defrtr
/var/named/chroot/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/lo/max_addresses
/var/named/chroot/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/lo/max_desync_factor
/var/named/chroot/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/lo/regen_max_retry
/var/named/chroot/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/lo/temp_prefered_lft
Thank you
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14 years, 8 months
Problems with Connection on F10
by Aaron Gray
I keep on getting problem with getting higher level connections on F10 over
Ethernet.
I can ping and do low level comms, but cannot get Firefox to work.
The connection icon is showing a red cross what ever I do.
I tried right clicking on it and clicking on the check box a number of
times, recreated the connection entering the MAC address.
But to no avail. This problem has been solved for me before but cannot
remember the solution.
Hope you can help,
Aaron
14 years, 8 months
need help
by SriLatha
hi,
Iam trying to install ns in fedora11. But iam getting following error.
Checking for X11 header files.
Cant find X includes.
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
make: *** No rule to make target 'install'. Stop.
I tried to install libX as yum install libX11-devel but unable to install after trying 256 mirrors.
How can i resolve this problem?
K.Srilatha
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14 years, 8 months
Setting up a point-to-point NIC in NetworkManager
by Bill Davidsen
How does one set up a point to point NIC in NetworkManager? Or should I go back
to doing everything manually?
--
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"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
14 years, 8 months
pulse audio not starting F11
by Phill
I have a clean install of Fedora 11 from downloaded install dvd. I noticed my sound stopped working after installing some other things via yum. Might just be a coincidence. I installed groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries" "Legacy Software Dvelopment". Then I noticed I have these messages in /var/log/messages. This is just a snippet of the pulse audio messages.
Aug 29 10:19:06 jkh pulseaudio[2232]: alsa-sink.c: Increasing wakeup watermark to 30.00 ms
Aug 29 10:19:07 jkh pulseaudio[2232]: alsa-source.c: ALSA woke us up to read new data from the device, but there was actually nothing to read!
Aug 29 10:19:07 jkh pulseaudio[2232]: alsa-source.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_ca0106'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
Aug 29 10:19:07 jkh pulseaudio[2232]: alsa-source.c: We were woken up with POLLIN set -- however a subsequent snd_pcm_avail() returned 0 or another value < min_avail.
Aug 29 10:19:08 jkh pulseaudio[2232]: alsa-sink.c: Increasing wakeup watermark to 40.00 ms
Aug 29 10:19:10 jkh pulseaudio[2232]: ratelimit.c: 15285 events suppressed
Aug 29 10:19:32 jkh pulseaudio[2232]: ratelimit.c: 16 events suppressed
Aug 29 10:19:32 jkh pulseaudio[2232]: alsa-sink.c: Increasing minimal latency to 1.00 ms
Aug 29 10:19:37 jkh pulseaudio[2232]: ratelimit.c: 3441 events suppressed
Aug 29 10:19:42 jkh pulseaudio[2232]: ratelimit.c: 3508 events suppressed
Aug 29 10:19:43 jkh pulseaudio[2232]: cpulimit.c: Received request to terminate due to CPU overload.
I noticed the messages above saying this is a bug in alsa drivers. Anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks.
14 years, 8 months
thunderbird-lightning and sunbird: libcalbasecomps.so: undefined symbol: icaltime_compare_date_only_tz
by John Thompson
Lightning (1.0-0.6.20090715hg.fc11) and sunbird
(1.0-0.5.20090715hg.fc11) had been working well for me recently on
Fedora-11 x86_64 but this morning I am greeted with the error message:
[john@lancre ~]$ thunderbird
Registering Enigmail account manager extension.
Enigmail account manager extension registered.
/usr/lib64/thunderbird-3.0b3/thunderbird-bin: symbol lookup error:
/usr/lib64/thunderbird-3.0b3/extensions/{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}/components/libcalbasecomps.so:
undefined symbol: icaltime_compare_date_only_tz
I have tried reverting to to early versions of each but the error persists.
Software changes since the last time lightning/sunbird worked properly are:
Packages Installed:
kernel-debug-devel.x86_64 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11
python-offtrac.noarch 0.0.3-1.fc11
kernel-devel.x86_64 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11
kernel.x86_64 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11
Packages Updated:
1:xscreensaver-extras-5.08-13.fc11.x86_64
setroubleshoot-2.1.14-3.fc11.x86_64
bash.x86_64 4.0-8.fc11
libtranslate-devel-0.99-21.fc11.x86_64
selinux-policy-targeted-3.6.12-80.fc11.noarch
1:xscreensaver-gl-extras-gss-5.08-13.fc11.x86_64
selinux-policy-3.6.12-80.fc11.noarch
libtranslate-0.99-21.fc11.x86_64
1:xscreensaver-gl-base-5.08-13.fc11.x86_64
kernel-headers.x86_64 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11
system-config-lvm.noarch 1.1.9-1.fc11
tigervnc-0.0.91-0.12.fc11.x86_64
ndesk-dbus.x86_64 0.6.1a-6.fc11
kpackagekit.x86_64 0.4.2-0.fc11
kernel-firmware.noarch 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11
smolt.noarch 1.3-1.fc11
smolt-firstboot.noarch 1.3-1.fc11
gmime.x86_64 2.4.3-6.fc11
tigervnc-server-module-0.0.91-0.12.fc11.x86_64
mono-addins.x86_64 0.4-8.20091702svn127062.1.fc11
gdb.x86_64 6.8.50.20090302-38.fc11
gsf-sharp.x86_64 0.8.1-11.fc11
imsettings-libs.x86_64 0.107.2-1.fc11
1:xscreensaver-gl-extras-5.08-13.fc11.x86_64
f-spot.x86_64 0.6.0.0-1.fc11
ndesk-dbus-glib.x86_64 0.4.1-5.fc11
gmime-sharp.x86_64 2.4.3-6.fc11
imsettings.x86_64 0.107.2-1.fc11
imsettings-xfce.x86_64 0.107.2-1.fc11
fedora-packager.noarch 0.3.8-1.fc11
libmikmod-3.2.0-5.beta2.fc11.x86_64
tigervnc-server-0.0.91-0.12.fc11.x86_64
imsettings-devel.x86_64 0.107.2-1.fc11
setroubleshoot-server-2.1.14-3.fc11.x86_64
taglib-sharp.x86_64 2.0.3.2-4.fc11
1:xscreensaver-base-5.08-13.fc11.x86_64
1:xscreensaver-extras-gss-5.08-13.fc11.x86_64
Any ideas?
--
-John (john(a)os2.dhs.org)
14 years, 8 months