F12: LiveCD & gparted
by Dan Thurman
I thought I'd make a note of this here.
When booting from F12 LiveCD, yum install gparted
downloads fine, but then when one wants to reformat
a [ext4] partition, it barfs quite badly - something about
using one of gparted libraries. It corrupts the tables.
Interestingly, doing an fsck on that partition recovers
the superblock and restores that partition.
Also, if one uses the anaconda's installation program,
it is able to reformat the partition and of course complete
the installation just fine.
I downloaded: gparted-0.5.1-1.fc12.i686 at the time.
FWIW,
Dan
14 years, 2 months
Video card for three heads?
by thomas cameron
All -
I'm currently dual head and I like it a lot, but I'd really like three
monitors. I use the heck out of compiz, so I need a card or cards and
drivers which will drive three monitors with accelerated X.
Anyone doing this? What card/driver combo do you use?
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Thomas
14 years, 2 months
Fedora Install
by Mike Flannigan
I would like to get any flavor of Linux installed
to my older-generation computer. I have 2
old computers:
x86 Family 6 Model 7 Stepping 3 AT/AT Compatible 130,596 KB Ram
Intel (R) 4 CPU 1400 MHz 130,352 KB Ram
I know that x86 is a Pentium 3.
I have tried 2 different downloaded versions
of the single CD install:
Fedora 12 i686-LIVE
I don't want a dual boot - I want a clean install.
I have tried it at least 15 times.
It boots to the disk and gets to various places
each time. Sometimes it freezes soon on
the lemon icon blue screen. Usually it gets
past that, sometimes to the "Press 'I' to enter
interactive startup". It takes the 'I' I press,
but never does anything after that. I have
let it run all night, but it doesn't do anything
else.
I want to make a move from Win to Linux and
need a starting point. Buying a new computer
is not out-of-the-question, but I'd like to put
that off until later if possible.
I have an old Dell portable and a 64 bit Linux
2-yo portable I am also willing to use for this.
I am open to any suggestions on what to do
and what to use.
Mike Flannigan
14 years, 2 months
What has happened to /etc/mail/statistics ???
by Reg Clemens
Up till last fall I used to receive information about what had gone thru
sendmail from the program /usr/sbin/mailstats from information being
kept in the file /etc/mail/statistics.
Since (an update to sendmail?) last fall, the file /etc/mail/statistics
has been of zero length, but I see no other complaints.
Is there now an option that I must set to get these statistics?
Or possibly new file ownership/mode for the file.
Any thoughts will be appreciated.
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Reg.Clemens
reg(a)dwf.com
14 years, 2 months
F12 can't boot up again
by barry yu
I made an image of F12 32bit a week ago of entire / except /boot, /swap, last night I restore it and partimage indicated successful, then reboot it, got stuck and displayed message:
[drm:drm_rmfb] * tried to rmove a fb that we didn't own
boot has failed, sleep forever
what happened and how to fix it?
14 years, 2 months
Add/Remove Software error
by "Germán A. Racca"
Hi there:
I have a PC with Fedora 12 x86_64 and Gnome desktop, and when I want to
install a program, I go to System -> Administration -> Add/Remove
Software, then I select the package, and finally it asks me for the root
password.
But in my notebook, with Fedora 12 i686 and Gnome desktop, the same
procedure as above doesn't ask me for the root password, but rather I
get the error:
"Authorization failed
You have failed to provide correct authentication
Please check any passwords or account settings."
What happened? I'm missing some configuration steps?
Regards,
Germán
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Germán A. Racca
National Institute for Space Research (INPE)
São José dos Campos - SP - Brasil
http://sites.google.com/site/gracca
http://gracca.wordpress.com
14 years, 2 months
Packagekit complaint: "database disk image is malformed"
by Sam Varshavchik
Packagekit is whining at me, and complaining that there's a "Problem
connecting to a software source". "More details" gives a very helpful
"database disk image is malformed".
Meanwhile "yum update" shows me the pending updates just fine, and is ready
to install them.
Then, if I run "yum clean all", that smacks packagekit into action, and it
obediently shows me the pending updates.
This has happened several times already. What's up with that?
14 years, 2 months
KDE 4 Changing changing Icons to Pictures
by Jim
FC12/KDE4.4
In Konqueror or Dolphin, When opening the Pictures Folder, how do I get
all pictures to be displayed seeing pictures, instead of seeing Camera
Icons ?
14 years, 2 months
Can't log into X after newest f12 update!
by cliff here
So after updating, (and eventually reinstalling and updating again) .. I've
having this issue were I cannot log into X therefor no gui.. but I can log
in via a virtual tty (ie. ALT + F2)
So i'm looking through what's been installed trying to figure out what in
the update broke my login,
This is after of course checking /var/log/secure and noticing gdm-passwd and
pam_unix were saying 'Could not authenticate user to underlying module'
So I did a yum check-update and found there is still a newer package of gdm
that isn't installing.. and I have no clue why.. is this happening for
anyone else??
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PM CST ----------
Ok well I got the gdm package to update properly... but still not love in
terms of getting to log into X
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14 years, 2 months
question about program execution
by Paolo Galtieri
I have a strange problem that I'm not quite sure what the issue is or how to
fix it.
I have a USB drive with a jar file and 2 text files on it.
If I have the drive mounted as /media/USB and I do the following:
cd /media/USB
java -jar myfile.jar
The program runs fine, and when I enter the name of the data file it finds
it in the local directory and all works well.
When I use the file browser and click my way to the same place and double
click on the jar file and enter the file name I get a file not found
exception from java.
Note I have setup nautilus so that when I open a jar file it runs java -jar
on that file. This works and the program does execute. However, rather
than looking for the file in the local directory which I would expect to be
/media/USB, since that is where I went to to run the program, it is looking
for the files in my home directory. The only way I have managed to get
things to work is to copy the data files to my home directory before running
the program. This seems strange to me. Is this normal behavior or is this
some sort of security policy?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Paolo
14 years, 2 months