help with a preupgrade glitch?
by Dave Stevens
I'm most of the way through preupgrading from F13 to F14 but am
getting an error retrieving
/pub/systems/linux/redhat/fedora/linux/releases/14/Fedora/x86_64/os/images/install.img from ftp.nrc.ca. The specific message is "unable to retrieve" the file. I've ftp'd from another machine and can confirm that the file exists. All the other .img files seem to have been retrieved from there without incident. Any hints? Other URLs I can
use?
dave
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"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
Krishnamurti
13 years, 6 months
Emacs dumps core on FC14
by Heinz Diehl
Hi,
when I launch a console and type "emacs", it starts flawlessly when I'm
loggin in as user. When I'm root, it dumps core with
The error is Glin-GIO:Error:gdbusconnection.c:2270:inittable
init:assertion failed
Emacs-nw is ok, though. What's going on here?
13 years, 6 months
Progressively Advancing Video Regressions
by Philip Vetter
Any ideas why I might be experiencing a progressive degradation of Red
Hat/Fedora's out-of-the-box support for multiple monitors, and what I can
do to get things working again?
(0) I used to be able to run 4 monitors off of my desktop machine with
suspend and resume. 1 double output card and 2 single output cards.
This was with hand-crafted xorg.conf that (if I recall correctly) was
no longer effective after xorg and video subsystem rearchitecting.
With various Fedora upgrades over time:
(-1) Resume stopped working. Comes up in a frozen state. (many months
ago)
(-2) Suspend stopped working. Computer shuts down but only partly. CPU
fans keep spinning, etc. (many months ago)
(-3) Stopped being able to configure multiple video cards.
(but could configure both outputs of a single AGP card.)
In particular, 'X -configure' would lock the system.
(many months ago)
(-4) Fedora 13, kernel 2.6.34.6-54 and subsequent: boot failure or broken
video whenever there is more than one video card present. This would occur
with 2 ATI cards, and also with 2 NVidia cards. (Weeks ago)
(-5) Fedora 14 does not properly recognize the only card installed.
(This card has two outputs)
gnome-display-properties reports only one Monitor:Unknown and will only
mirror the outputs. (Last week)
Thank you for your help + insight!
-Phil
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13 years, 6 months
Weather applet in the F14 gnome shell
by Sam Varshavchik
I'm checking out the Gnome shell, after switching from the regular Gnome
desktop. I can't seem to find the equivalent of the weather applet that I
have in my standard gnome desktop's panel. The Gnome shell, apparently, does
not use the panel applet.
A google search finds reference to comparable features in the Gnome shell
called, apparently, "gizmos", but I can't seem to find them under
"Activities".
13 years, 6 months
thunderbird-lightning fails on F12
by Paolo Galtieri
I tried sending this last week, but never saw it on the list.
Recently F12 updated thunderbird to 3.0.10; however, there was no update
to thunderbird-lightning so I no longer have access to my calendar.
When I start thunderbird I get a message saying lightning 1.0b2pre is
not compatible with thunderbird 3.0.10. Is there a plan to provide a
compatible thunderbird-lightning? Before I upgrade I want to be able to
export my existing thunderbird settings including my calendar events.
Also the thunderbird addon to provide bidirectional access to google
calendar no longer works for the same reason.
Paolo
13 years, 6 months
FC14 install memory requirements
by Robert Moskowitz
I have a Asus EE 700 with 512 Mb memory. FC12 meminfo reports ~490Mb
usable memory as I suspect Video is stealing some memory.
Anyway, FC14 install reports that there is NOT enough memory for a
graphical install. To add insult to injury it did not even install
gnome. It comes up in text mode and startx is not a known command.
This seems rather extreme? I put FC12 back on the system (how I got the
memory info), and will try a FC13 install tomorrow. But are now older
512Mb memory systems locked out of FC14?
13 years, 6 months
RE: Ganglia - gmetad segfaults after starting gmond [SOLVED]
by Alan Gagne
> After upgrade to fedora 14 from 13 gmetad process segfaults when
> updating rrd graphs. Anybody seeing this problem ?
>
> [linux2 ~]# rpm -qa | grep ganglia
> ganglia-web-3.1.7-2.fc14.i686
> ganglia-gmetad-3.1.7-2.fc14.i686
> ganglia-3.1.7-2.fc14.i686
> ganglia-gmond-3.1.7-2.fc14.i686
>
>
> To get around this problem I compiled ganglia 3.1.7 from source
The problem was with rrdtool-1.3.8-4.
The new version of rrdtool-1.4.4-1.fc14.i686 fixes this issue.
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654246 for details.
Alan
13 years, 6 months
One satisfied customer with f14!
by mike cloaked
At the weekend I was invited to attend a local linux user group
"installfest" since all the other people there was Ubuntu-centric. I
took along a Fedora f14 Gnome desktop install DVD, as well as a
bootable usbkey containing the DVD iso as an install medium in case of
need (written with livecd-iso-to-disk.
The banter at the event was all about the latest Ubuntu, and a young
Italian lady had dropped in, who was not best pleased with the default
operating system on an EEEPC 901, and had brought it to the
installfest with a view to getting a "proper" version of linux on it
with the help of the experts at hand.
The Ubuntu helpers worked out how to boot a usbkey and eagerly set
about starting an install of the latest Ubuntu, whilst I discussed
Fedora with them in terms of differences from what they were used to.
"So what drivers will you need to load to get the wireless going on
the EEEPC if you installed F14?" I told them it was very likely it
would just work out of the box. They were not convinced! "What about
the webcam?" - it'll probably 'just work', I replied. Anyway it was
by now becoming clear that the Ubuntu install was not going well, and
questions were being asked across the room about how to get around the
error that was popping into the screen before the install had got off
the starting blocks!
I offered my help to try an f14 install as an alternative. I popped
my key into the usb slot and initiated an install. Anaconda did its
thing, and I configured the install - and set it going - of course
with a slow machine it would take a while, and an hour and a bit later
it went into first boot.
Ubuntu people watching over my shoulder waiting for the inevitable
failure to connect to the local encrypted wireless signal
(authenticated via a radius server) were surprised when the wireless
network connection was running about 30 seconds later. A little
desktop tweaking, and then adding in a couple of extra repo
definitions allowed the young lady access to her mp3 player via the
usb port,and play her mp3 files, and Skype fired up without issue.
Chrome was running a few minutes later, and then the Italian keyboard
was put through its paces. Not a single problem, and she went away
with a beaming smile delighted at the working system, and commenting
on how wonderful the desktop background graphics were. The others were
clearly impressed.
One guy commented that the colour scheme was rather more pleasing to
his eye than his own Ubuntu scheme!
I donated the install DVD to the event, and left for another
engagement. I later learned that they had used it to do several f14
installs on other machines!
Fedora does seem to work!
--
mike c
13 years, 6 months
Fw: Nouveau won't load with custom kernel 2.6.35.6-48
by stan
Begin forwarded message:
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:57:32 -0700
From: stan <gryt2(a)q.com>
To: Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Nouveau won't load with custom kernel 2.6.35.6-48
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:32:16 +0100
Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> Remove any umask call from /usr/share/dracut/modules.d/99base/init
> and rebuild your initramfs.
>
> I will update dracut soon.
Grep shows no umask calls anywhere below /usr/share/dracut/modules.d and
I edited the init file in 99base and did a search and confirmed there
are no umask calls.
Thanks for your help.
13 years, 6 months