Chromium by default?
by Valent Turkovic
In the latest release [1] of Community Fedora Remix (yes, we are
looking for a new name [2]) some flack we got was due to having
duplicate apps; two browsers and two email clients.
How about switching to Chromium only in our next release?
Are there some pitfalls that would prevents us from doing so? The
biggest issue currently is that Chromium is still not in Fedora repos
(read why [3]) but Tom releases great quality packages and all his
releases were rock solid so far.
Chrome/Chromium browser has more than 70 million users[3], much more
than Fedora itself, for me that proves it is a good and stable
browser. I have been using latest versions of Chromium for past few
months, and I have great experience with it. I use both Firefox and
Chromium, but it looks like most people would like to have just one.
Please post your comments here or in our mailing list and cast your
vote here: http://polldaddy.com/poll/3283626/
[1] http://fcoremix.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/lucky-13/
[2] http://fcoremix.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/fedora-remix-name-brainstorm/
[3] http://ostatic.com/blog/making-projects-easier-to-package-why-chromium-is...
[4] http://www.tech24hours.com/2010/05/number-of-google-chrome-users-may-2010...
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13 years, 10 months
F13 installation: successful with small problem and larger one.
by Fred Smith
Hi gang!
I installed F13 on my eeepc 901 on Friday. Since I changed the partitioing
scheme, I backed up the whole thing onto a USB HD first so I could restore
my home directory afterwards (in fact I also kept dd images of /dev/sda
and /dev/sdb in case I decided to put F12 back on it later.)
first small problem:
I wanted /dev/sda (4 gig SSD) to contain /boot and /. I wanted /dev/sdb
(16gig SSD) to contain swap and /home. I DID NOT want LVM. I DID want
encrypted filesystems. But when I tell Anaconda to partition without LVM
and without VG, it disables encrypted partition option. Is there any
way to regain that feature?
second (not quite so) small problem:
every time I tried to manually create a LVM/VG-free partitioning scheme
as described above, Anaconda would crash. I could restart the installation
without rebooting, but it would fail in other strange ways (sorry, I failed
to take notes on this) and I ended up having to do a power-off cold restart
to get it to work again. Every time. Tried 6 or 8 times before moving on...
Therefore, I used Anaconda to just partition /dev/sda as above (/boot and
/, UNencrypted since it wouldn't let me choose encryption if I didn't also
allow it to use LVM) assuming I could later (after installation) manually
partition /dev/sdb (again, as described above) and tweak /etc/fstab to
mount /dev/sdb2 as /home.
Third, larger problem:
So, I did it that way and it works. sort of.
Booting up and logging in via GDM gives me a GUI desktop that all seems
to work well. HOWEVER, when I try to ssh to the machine from another one
it says this:
fredex(a)192.168.2.117's password:
Last login: Sat May 29 20:14:16 2010 from 192.168.2.12
Could not chdir to home directory /home/fredex: Permission denied
/usr/bin/xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/fredex/.Xauthority
[fredex@eeepcbox /]$
as you can see it won't start me off in /home/fredex but leaves me in /.
Funny thing is, after this happens I can "cd /home/fredex" without any
trouble at all.
I'm going to assume that the xauth error is related to the same thing,
whatever it may be, that causes the chdir error.
googling showed me a lot of people have had similar problems, but none of
the suggestions actually solved it for me.
Operating on the guess that my having manually mounted and manually copied
my home dir into place somehow left something broken, I created a new user
(deleteme) and tried doing the SSH as that user. Unfortunately, the same
thing happens, so I guess it's NOT a result of the way I put my data in
/home/fredex.
If I comment out the line in /etc/fstab that mounts /dev/sdb2 on /home, and
reboot and log in then it logs in without any trouble (though of course
my files aren't there, and there's not enough room to put them there.)
(as you can guess, there's also a /home/fredex on /dev/sda2 that was
created during the original install, and my changing fstab to mount
/dev/sdb2 over it merely hides it--it's still there if we do not mount
/dev/sdb2 over it. I don't see how this could cause a problem such as
this one...)
It must therefore be something about having /home mounted the way I'm doing
it, but it beats me what it might be. here's /etc/fstab:
[fredex@eeepcbox /]$ cat /etc/fstab
#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Fri May 28 15:11:59 2010
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
UUID=fb18a565-f3ea-45aa-a2ad-af9d241e3014 / ext4 defaults,noatime 1 1
UUID=4045da8d-003a-49b0-a01b-fdc55971e81d /boot ext4 defaults,noatime 1 2
# /home mount added by fcs 05/28/10
UUID=7d165598-20a1-4f18-974c-f7f21473c12c /home ext4 defaults,noatime 1 2
#/dev/sdb2 /home ext4 defaults,noatime 1 2
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# all below added by fcs 05/28/10
/dev/sdb1 swap swap defaults 0 0
tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs noatime 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs noatime 0 0
Above you'll see a commented line that mounts /dev/sdb2, and an active
line that mounts by UUID. That's the UUID of /dev/sdb2, taken from the
output of dumpe2fs. No matter which line is active, the same error
occurs.
I DO NOT see ANYTHING in /var/log that relates to these errors. Not in
the xorg logs, not messages, not secure, not anywhere.
I'm stumped, anyone got any sage adivce for me?
Thanks in advance!
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---- Fred Smith -- fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us -----------------------------
The eyes of the Lord are everywhere,
keeping watch on the wicked and the good.
----------------------------- Proverbs 15:3 (niv) -----------------------------
13 years, 10 months
netinst images: What's the point?
by Richard Shaw
Ok, I think I know what the point is, but there is little
documentation for these specific files and I can't figure out how to
get them to work correctly.
The netinst image seems to be the same as the boot.iso but with
installer.img added to it, which is exactly what I'm looking for,
except for the fact it doesn't work.
If I boot (on a USB flash drive) the netinst image everything works
until it looks for the repo files which I assumed it would try to find
online or at least ask me where to find them, but it doesn't.
If I boot the netinst image with "askmethod" and then specify a HTTP
mirror then it works except that it tries to re-download install.img
which is already on the flash drive.
So the question in my subject remains: What's the point of the netinst
image if it doesn't seem to work?
Richard
13 years, 10 months
problem with awk
by Adel ESSAFI
Hello,
I have a "little" proble with awk
here I have a file which contain data like this
101663.dat
1 122837.920343696
1 121875.899726134
1 8011.13164749145
1 24955.1102952732
when I execute
awk 'BEGIN { }
echo $2
END { print "Fin" }
' testclean
I got this outpout
1 122837.920343696
1 121875.899726134
1 8011.13164749145
1 24955.1102952732
while I am expecting to get
122837.920343696
121875.899726134
8011.13164749145
24955.1102952732
without 1 at the beginning of the line. Can you help please.
Regards
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13 years, 10 months
Installing Flash
by Robert Posey
Hello:
I have just installed Fedora 13 and like it. However, there is one
program that I would like to install but as yet have not discovered a
way to do so. I would like to install the Flash player on my machine.
Does anyone know how to do this?
Thank you in advance,
Rob
13 years, 10 months
F13: Evolution icons - configurable?
by John Horne
Hello,
I recently upgraded to Fedora 13, and am finding the evolution mail
client icons a bit awkward. I use KDE for the desktop. I found this
image on the 'net of basically what it use to look like:
http://www.backuphowto.info/files/images/howto/2007/linux-screw-10-total-...
Personally I preferred the old icons, is there any way re-install them?
If not, then:
1) I used to have both icons and text on the taskbar (as in the
picture). Now I only have the icons. Anyway I can get both back again?
2) The icons are a bit small. Anyway to increase their size?
3) The icons are quite close together, and over to the left of the
application window. As seen in the picture, the icons used to be spread
along the top. Anyway to spread out the icons a bit?
Thanks,
John.
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13 years, 10 months
Bash History How to?
by Frank Murphy
I would like to prevent .bash_history being
created for root.
And when "sudo" invoked by user.
Have tried:
export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
but nothing seems to be added to .bashrc
this has come abote as I seem to have
/tmp/.bash_history
which may not be good :(
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13 years, 10 months
RPMs in FC13 with wrong or missing release
by Jonathan Ryshpan
There are a number of packages in the FC13 repos that have wrong or
missing release IDs. For example:
evolution-remove-duplicates-0.0.4-4.fc12.x86_64
which is in fact intended for evolution-2.28, and not for
evolution-2.30, which is included in FC13. (And so it doesn't work)
There are a lot of such packages and many packages with no release ID at
all, like:
glibc-common-2.12-1.x86_64
too many to be included in an email of reasonable length, but here is a
summary:
$ wc -l *
1416 rpm.ALL Number of RPMs on the system
220 rpm.fc12 Those with ".fc12." in their name
17 rpm.none Those with neither ".fc12." nor ".fc13."
Is this harmful? Should it be reported to the Fedora Bugzilla?
Thanks - jon
13 years, 10 months
Re: can't set Okular as helper pdf app in Firefox
by DB
On 02/06/10 14:42, users-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
> Subject:
> can't set Okular as helper pdf app in Firefox
> From:
> Claude Jones <cjoneslists(a)tehogeeservices.com>
> Date:
> Wed, 2 Jun 2010 08:42:12 -0400
>
> To:
> Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
>
>
> This is Fedora 13 with the KDE desktop and all the latest updates:
>
> When I click on a pdf link in Firefox, I get a message saying the helper
> application doesn't exist and to change that in preferences. In Firefox
> preferences in the Applications tab, the helper app is set to Okular. If I
> download a pdf, as opposed to clicking on the link, and then right-click and
> select open with Okular, it works fine.
>
> In KDE settings, the file association for pdf's is also set to Okular
>
> Is there another place this has to be set??
>
Hi Claude,
I had this (or something pretty close to it a while back..... the
assembled wisdom of the list put the problem down to the sender program
not specifying the file type correctly. Sadly, it's something we have
to live with.
HTH,
Dave
13 years, 10 months
NMI error with kernel 2.6.33.5-112.fc13.i686.PAE
by SternData
When using the latest kernel, 2.6.33.5-112.fc13.i686.PAE, my machine
crashes with the message
Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason a0 on CPU 0.
You have some hardware problem, likely on the PCI
Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
And then it sits for a while and quietly digs itself a hole in the ground.
I've dropped back to kernel 2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686.PAE to see if the
problem goes away.
One possible source of this is that (see other message), I'm now using
Network Manager to manage the wireless card and have changed from WEP to
WPA. Googling indicates that this message is often associated with an
Atheros wireless card.
Anyone else having this issue?
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13 years, 10 months