login session timeout on F12
by potat0
I recently installed a F12 as a home workstation and httpd server on a quad AMD system. I want to use it as a workstation for my daily work. I got most problems ironed out including playing media files and finding SElinux paramters to get ftp and httpd going.
One thing still bothers me a lot. When I don't touch my keyboard or mouse for 5 minutes the screen goes to sleep and I need to enter my password again to get back into my session.
All my research did not bring any progress. I could not find the parameter controlling the 5 minutes default.
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Peter
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14 years, 4 months
reboot cycle, no log messages
by Joel Rees
Just before it reboots, it gives me messages about old ext3
partitions that have problems mounting.
History:
this machine has seen upgrades and re-installs from FC2 or so. Most
recently, I had succeeded in doing an upgrade from F7 to F9 using a
netinstall CD and some patient cleaning up, then an uneventful
upgrade to F10.
Then I seriously botched a CD-less upgrade via the command-line
upgrade tool because my /var/log partition only had 2G and I needed
more than that for the packages. (Used lvm to extend /var/log to 5 G
and then it did something really strange that I don't quite recall
and left me with a system partially upgraded, trying to find th wrong
kernel. And I didn't want to mess with that, so I cleared an old 40G
partition I wasn't really using and wiped the botched boot partition,
leaving the old stuff behind in the lvm-managed partition it had been
in.
Installed F12, and it booted fine. Then I added some old partitions
I'd been using for backup to /etc/fstab, and added the old lvm
partition, as well, for laughs. At that point, it would start boot
cycling, repeating 2 to 7 or more times before something settled down
and it would boot.
This is what I captured with a digital camera when it cycled:
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/dev/mapper/fc7-7[various]: clean [long list of partitions from the
old system]
/dev/mapper/fc7-7varwww: clean, 644/516896 files, 27268/516896 blocks
[failed]
*** An error occured during the file system check,
*** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
*** when you leave the shell.
*** Warning -- SELinux is active
*** Disabling security enforcement for system recovery.
*** Run 'setenforce 1' to reenable.
sulogin: error while loading shared libraries: libfreebl3.so: cannot
open shared
object file: No such file or directory
Unmounting file system
Automatic reboot in progress.
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After it successfully booted, I would be able to mount and access the
old /var/www partition with no problem.
I find this message in the forum:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=230419
but my /var/log/messages contains no EXT4-fs error messages.
Setting the passno entry in /etc/fstab to 0 or commenting out the
entry just pushes the error message back. When a large partition at /
dev/sdb4, which I use for backup, is the final partition checked in /
etc/fstab, it gives me
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fsck.ext3: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short
read while trying to open /dev/sdb4
Could this be a zero-length partition?
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and then the messages about libfreebl3.so and the automatic reboot.
yum provides libfreebl3.so tells me that nss-softokn-freebl is
installed. Trying an erase to re-install it tells me that most of the
OS and most of the apps seem to be dependent on it, one way or
another. Hmm.
This looks like I need to file a bug or two. Anyone know what's
happening here?
Joel Rees
14 years, 4 months
Configuring GW to DSL Internet
by j.halifax .
Hi All,
Pleaase help me in configuring FC12_64 as DHCP & FW & GW to ADSL Internet.
I have:
- eth0 (xxx.39.189.92) connected to one port of the DSL router, eth0 configured with DSN' of ISP
- eth2 (10.255.250.37) connected to the local LAN, eth2 configured with DNS' of ISP
- DNS' of ISP are defined also in resolv.conf
- named is running
- dnsmasq running for eth0 (connected to DSL router port)
- iptables running
- FW has dns ports (53) open
- FW has eth2 (to internal LAN) as trusted interface
- Internet is accessible in that box (via eth0), websites in internal LAN as well (via eth2).
>From another box in the LAN:
> ping 10.255.250.37
responds normal way
> host isp.com 10.255.250.37
doesn't respond
(in the 10.255.250.37 box the tcpdump shows requests coming in port 53, but they are not forwarded to superior ISP DNS and SUGHUP1 to dnsmasq reports 0 requests received/answered/failed/retried/sent)
My question is: What is it incorect in my configuratins?
Thank you so much for your appreciated help!
Warm regards
jh
14 years, 4 months
blueprint modeling software?
by Robert P. J. Day
just had a request for blueprint modeling software that runs on
linux (fedora, ideally). i know *nothing* about such software and am
currently googling, but if someone wants to point me in the direction
of some good examples, that would be just ducky. thanks.
rday
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14 years, 4 months
Setting Application startup priority
by Bill Case
Hi;
How do I set/change Application's startup priority?
I have three applications in my Preferences => 'Startup Applications'
that are loading before Compiz et al. That means Compiz can't place
those windows in the correct viewport/workspace and position when I
login. Compiz does place them correctly, if I shut the three down then
restart them after Compiz is loaded.
Tweaking the 'Place Windows Plugin' is not likely the answer. I am used
to working with Xwindows info etc. and have confirmed online that my
settings are correct.
In case it makes a difference, or there is some other reason why they
should be started early, the three programs I want to position at
startup are Firefox; Evolution and Xchat-GNOME.
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Fedora 12, Gnome 2.28
Evo.2.28, Emacs 23.1.1
14 years, 4 months
Boot Log annoyance/nitpick re: nvidia
by Bill Case
Hi;
I keep getting this warning in my boot log.
"Enabling the nvidia driver: /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: line 520: 941
Segmentation fault "$@" [FAILED]"
It doesn't seem to affect anything; and it has been suggested that I
just ignore it; but it has been there for two Fedora versions now and is
getting annoying.
Whose bug is it? Fedora's or rpmfusion's?
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Fedora 12, Gnome 2.28
Evo.2.28, Emacs 23.1.1
14 years, 4 months
firefox disk IO
by Wayne Feick
I've been having a lot of problems with firefox periodically becoming
unusable while it pounds away at my disk. It comes back after a while,
but then does it again. I tried web searching and found some
recommendations about turning off "Block reported attack sites" and
"Block reported web forgeries" but that didn't help.
Are others seeing this? Is there a solution?
Wayne.
14 years, 4 months
control-C and yum update
by Paul Allen Newell
A quick question which is hopefully just "an education request" ...
While reinstalling f12 on a machine that I "messed up", I was following
all my notes and directions and reached the point where the install was
successful and it was time to update. I did a "su -l" and then typed
"yum update". I realized I had forgotten something and immediately did a
"control-C" in the terminal that I had executed the "yum update". To my
surprise, it ignored it until it got to the first confirm and then
proceeded to kill the process. No problem as the update was stopped but ...
I though "control-C" was an immediate kill of whatever was running and
was wondering why yum didn't stop when I tried to kill it.
Am I missing something about either "control-C" or "yum update" .. or both?
Thanks in advance for any explanation as I am wondering if I really
understand "control-C"
Paul
14 years, 4 months
How do I get SB X-FI sound card working on Fedora 12
by jnissley@nissley.org
On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 14:47 -0600, John Nissley wrote:
> I am running Fedora 12 and am up to date on the updates. I have a Sound
> Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio sound card and can not seem to get it to work
> and from reading the mailing lists I could find the 6.31 kernel should
> have support for this card built in.
>
> uname information
> 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 21 05:33:33 UTC 2009 x86_64
> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> lspci pertinent infomation
> 04:00.0 Audio device: Creative Labs [SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio] CA0110-IBG
>
> The mixer GUI shows HD-Audio Generic.
>
According to the alsa matrix its supposed to be included in alsa
1.0.21,.
... Though, as I far as I remember, this is still initial support.
What's the output of $ /sbin/lsmod | grep snd_?
- Gilboa
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Output as follows:
bash-4.0$ lsmod | grep snd_*
snd_hda_codec_ca0110 8816 1
snd_hda_intel 29024 2
snd_hda_codec 79536 2 snd_hda_codec_ca0110,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 9384 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_seq 55440 0
snd_seq_device 7860 1 snd_seq
snd_pcm 79400 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 22128 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 64968 11 snd_hda_codec_ca0110,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 7328 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 10000 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
14 years, 4 months