GOOD WORK!! (kde 4.4)
by Boggiano
Hi all,
only a brief note to thank everyone of the Fedora team!
My usual "yum update", today, gave me kde 4.4... it's a gift!!!
I love Fedora, day by day! ;)
Thanks a lot!
Alessandro
14 years, 3 months
Printing from Windows XP
by Kevin Cummings
My printer is running on my F10 server. In the past, my son has been
able to print to it with no problems from his Windows XP machine.
Starting sometime this past weekend, when he tries to print, Windows XP
gets an "unknown print error" when he tries.
Now, here's the kicker, when I log into the "owner" account on the same
Windows XP machine, I can print just fine....
Does anyone know what might be causing this bizarre unwanted behaviour?
--
Kevin J. Cummings
kjchome(a)rcn.com
cummings(a)kjchome.homeip.net
cummings(a)kjc386.framingham.ma.us
Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
14 years, 3 months
Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?
by Andre Robatino
I just back up everything including hidden files/directories. The
hidden files/directories generally don't take up a lot of space and it
ensures that I don't miss anything.
14 years, 3 months
Weird DNS issue with a specific web site with Fedora 12 (Temporary failure in name resolution?)
by Tim Long
Hi,
I recently upgraded my work computer to Fedora 12 and I am having a
weird DNS issue for an internal website in my organization.
Performing a dig/nslookup for the web site returns a IP address but
trying to contact via a web browser/wget/telnet fails with a DNS error
(the actually web site and IP numbers are scrubbed)
-----
~]$ nslookup www.site.com
Server: ###.###.###.###
Address: ###.###.###.####53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.site.com
Address: ***.***.***.***
~]$ telnet www.site.com 80
telnet: www.site.com: Temporary failure in name resolution
www.site.com: Host name lookup failure
----
Everyone in our organization who has upgraded to Fedora 12 and is
running networking via DHCP has this issue. People with static IP
addresses don't have a problem. This issue seems to be specific to
only this server in the organization and did not occur with earlier
versions of Fedora. Also the nsswitch.conf files are stock standard
and haven't changed.
We have done investigation and the issue might be related to the fact
that our main DNS servers are windows boxes. When we override the DNS
setting and point it at a pirate Unix (read stable!) DNS server in the
problem goes away. Another work around that has been found is to run
dnsmasq on the Fedora workstations. The problem is that these
workarounds is that they the break dynamic DNS system we have to run.
Can anyone offer some help? Even some pointers to where to start
digging/debugging would be helpful because we are all stumped.
Thanks,
Tim Long.
If it helps I have included the full output from dig for reference
Querying the Window DNS server gives something like:
; <<>> DiG 9.6.1-P3-RedHat-9.6.1-16.P3.fc12 <<>> ###.###.###.###
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 24111
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;###.###.###.###. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
###.###.###.###. 11 IN A ***.***.***.***
;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: ***.***.***.***#53(***.***.***.***)
;; WHEN: Tue Feb 9 17:27:18 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 48
Querying the pirate DNS server returns:
; <<>> DiG 9.6.1-P3-RedHat-9.6.1-16.P3.fc12 <<>> @134.178.6.5 ###.###.###.###
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 54136
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;###.###.###.###. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
###.###.###.###. 9 IN A ***.***.***.***
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
###.###.###.###. 600 IN NS ***.***.***.***.
###.###.###.###. 600 IN NS ***.***.***.***.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
###.###.###.###. 600 IN A ***.***.***.***
###.###.###.###. 600 IN A ***.***.***.***
;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: ***.***.***.***#53(***.***.***.***)
;; WHEN: Tue Feb 9 17:39:11 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 136
14 years, 3 months
F12 won't boot after image restored
by barry yu
I made an image of F12 32bit / with partimage a week ago and I used it
to restore the partition, partimage reported restoration successful,
when I reboot and to start the Fedora 12, here is what displayed and
stuck there;
[drm:drm_rmfb]*tried to remove a fb that we didn't own
boot has failed, sleeping forever.
What happened and how to fix it?
14 years, 3 months
ssh tunneling client settings
by Christoph Höger
Hi guys,
are there any special client settings one needs to have for ssh
tunneling?
I have the classical setup: machines A1 and A2 (both fedora 12) should
access C which is only accessible from B1 (kerberos) or B2 (private key)
So on A1 I used to
ssh -L 10080:C:80 B1
or
ssh -L 10080:C:80 B2
Both work fine.
But on A2:
ssh -L 10080:C:80 B1/B2
logs me in to the machine but every connection attempt returns:
channel 3: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed
Why? What kind of weird setting is this?
14 years, 3 months
Re: firefox lockups after update
by Vincent
> From: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: firefox lockups after update
> On 02/24/2010 04:16 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > --- On Wed, 2/24/10, Vincent Onelli<vonelli(a)optonline.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>> --- On Tue, 2/23/10, vinny<vonelli(a)optonline.net>
> >>>
> >>
> > If you're running GNOME, here's a quick way to check install versions.
> >
> > Menu: System->About this Computer
> >
> > Without getting into what's installed or how it was installed on which machine, try this: Disable SELinux or lower its protection. I've had it cause more problems with various Fedora versions that now I disable it. I'm not running a server, just a one user desktop, so two firewalls (router and system) and being careful has kept me uninfected since Fedora Core 3.
> >
> > Anyway, see if Firefox works. If not and since it apppears that your last update "broke" firefox, do a 'yum update' on both systems, then 'yum remove firefox', and after that completes, 'yum install firefox'. This should install any firefox dependencies.
> >
> > In my opinion, the easiest thing would be to do clean installs (no upgrade) of F12 on both systems from a newly downloaded, burned and checksummed DVD. Yes, it's a pain, but it will take less time than trying to find out what's currently the problem, and fixing it. Just back up your data, etc. before doing it.
> >
> > FWIW, I've always had problems with upgrading between versions even following the instructions explicitly. I've always ended up with a system that is a mix of the two versions, which ultimately causes problems.
> >
> > Maybe this link will help with your install and configurations. It's a very good reference. I've been using it since FC3 or 4.
> >
> > http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/
> >
> >
> > B
> >
> You can try to execute
> # setenforce 0, to see if this is an SELinux issue.
>
> If firefox works now, it was an SELinux issue.
>
> You could try
> # setsebool -P allow_execstack=1
>
> It is probably needed, and see if fixes the issue.
>
> Also make sure you are totally yum updated
>
> yum -y update
>
> Once the machine is totally updated, if it still does not work with
> SELinux in enforcing mode, ping me.
>
I tried all suggestions, firefox is still not load it appears as if try,
the "starting firefox ..." appears at the bottom of screen for few
seconds and then disappears. So it is time to do a full installation? I
will wait while just in case there may be some new idea to try.
Thanks to all of you.
14 years, 3 months
How to Get rid of Dragon Player
by Jim
FC12/KDE
PLEASE!!!!
How can I get rid of Dragon Player ????
I don't want to do anything else , but get rid of Dragon PLayer.
14 years, 3 months
Historical cpu consumption information?
by Wendell Nichols
My fedora 10 laptop routinely "freezes". That means the menu's and
applications don't respond to mouse clicks. After a few seconds (or
sometimes many seconds) it frees up and works normally again. If I look
at the cpu consumption graph I can see that something had the processer
pegged at 100% but what? during the episode there is no way to switch
to top or the ksysguard process list because the system is
unresponsive. So how do I find out what caused the lockup?
wcn
14 years, 3 months
F12: Sendmail, clamav-milter & spamass-milter
by Dan Thurman
I have spent weeks trying to resolve the following issues:
I have F9/10/11 working just fine.
1) SendMail - I can get SM to run, but I am unable to
send outgoing email messages. Why? Because
of some sort of authentication issue refuses to
accept the password.
Using authentication, I am constantly asked to provide
the password via Thunderbird and in failing to accept
authorization, it simply disconnects from sendmail.
I have added non-authorization step as well, and it is
simply rejected the connection with no prompts for
a password.
From the Thunderbird client, the error message reported is:
Sending of message failed.
The message could not be sent using SMTP server mx1.domain.com
for an unknown reason. Please verify that your SMTP server settings
are correct and try again, or contact your network administrator.
In the above two cases, the error message I got is:
[...] <host/domain>.com [X.X.X.X] did not issue \
MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
2) Until the most recent update, I had clamav-milter working
but now, even though a socket is created, an error is
reported as:
Feb 24 10:59:15 <host> clamav-milter[9203]: +++ Started at Wed Feb 24
10:59:15 2010
Feb 24 10:59:15 <host> clamav-milter[9204]: No ClamdSocket specified
Feb 24 10:59:15 <host> clamav-milter[9204]: Failed to init the socket pool
There are no clamav-milter messages in maillog, where
there were previously.
3) Spamass-milter starts and *seems* to work, a socket is
created, but no information is yet available at this time
so I do not know if this works.
I have removed and installed all of the components several times
but that does not seem to change anything.
Are there any pointers on how I can test/proceed into getting these
issues resolved?
Kind regards,
Dan
14 years, 3 months