Left mouse button stops working periodically
by Wendell Nichols
3 times in about as many weeks my left mouse button has ceased to
function. I cannot associate this with any particular activity.
Because you can't do much without that button I have to reboot my laptop
to get out of it. This mouse is a bluetooth mouse, but while the
problem exists the builtin mice don't work either.
Has anyone else seen this problem?
Does anyone have a way to track down the source of this problem?
My system is:
lenovo thinkpad t61p
fedora 12 (64 bit)
using gnome desktop
wcn
13 years, 9 months
Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?
by Dan Thurman
I thought it was sufficient to look into the headers
of the offending email spammmers and add these respective
IP address and/or host names to the /etc/mail/access file,
but I am beginning to suspect that these headers could be
easily spoofed with bogus entries, right?
I am really getting tired of adding in entries into the access
file, and writing email filters (in thunderbird) for patterns
dumping spammers into the trash - and yet - I am still forced
to review the trash for entries that should not have been trashed.
Seems like a real chore and a losing proposition...
What do admins of sendmail use, besides spamassasin?
Thanks!
Dan
13 years, 9 months
qemu-kvm Trying to "Write" to a cdrom/sr0 ?? , Why?
by Jim
FC13
Selinux is in "permissive" mode
Why would qemu-kvm try to "Write" to a cdrom, instead of "Read" ?
Summary:
SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/qemu-kvm "write" access on sr0.
Detailed Description:
SELinux denied access requested by qemu-kvm. It is not expected that
this access
is required by qemu-kvm and this access may signal an intrusion attempt.
It is
also possible that the specific version or configuration of the
application is
causing it to require additional access.
Allowing Access:
You can generate a local policy module to allow this access - see FAQ
(http://docs.fedoraproject.org/selinux-faq-fc5/#id2961385) Please file a bug
report.
Additional Information:
Source Context system_u:system_r:svirt_t:s0:c194,c927
Target Context system_u:object_r:virt_content_t:s0
Target Objects sr0 [ blk_file ]
Source qemu-kvm
Source Path /usr/bin/qemu-kvm
Port <Unknown>
Host (removed)
Source RPM Packages qemu-system-x86-0.12.3-8.fc13
Target RPM Packages
Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.7.19-28.fc13
Selinux Enabled True
Policy Type targeted
Enforcing Mode Enforcing
Plugin Name catchall
Host Name (removed)
Platform Linux (removed) 2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64
#1 SMP Fri
Jun 11 09:38:12 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count 1
First Seen Sat 26 Jun 2010 08:02:20 PM EDT
Last Seen Sat 26 Jun 2010 08:02:20 PM EDT
Local ID 244b6695-b55d-4548-af9a-61a8d2077cf0
Line Numbers
Raw Audit Messages
node=(removed) type=AVC msg=audit(1277596940.189:97): avc: denied {
write } for pid=11387 comm="qemu-kvm" name="sr0" dev=devtmpfs ino=5712
scontext=system_u:system_r:svirt_t:s0:c194,c927
tcontext=system_u:object_r:virt_content_t:s0 tclass=blk_file
node=(removed) type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1277596940.189:97): arch=c000003e
syscall=2 success=no exit=-13 a0=19125d0 a1=81802 a2=0 a3=0 items=0
ppid=1 pid=11387 auid=4294967295 uid=107 gid=107 euid=107 suid=107
fsuid=107 egid=107 sgid=107 fsgid=107 tty=(none) ses=4294967295
comm="qemu-kvm" exe="/usr/bin/qemu-kvm"
subj=system_u:system_r:svirt_t:s0:c194,c927 key=(null)
13 years, 9 months
F-13 printing problems -
by Bob Goodwin
I have been struggling with an attempt to print a crossword
puzzle for about an hour now.
I click on print and 20 seconds later the printer activity lamp
begins to blink, 40 seconds later it produces a copy. And that
is an improvement, up until a few minutes ago it simply refused
to print at all!
Everything happens in slow motion.
In desperation I booted as root in order to get cups to allow me
to do anything, I have never booted this computer as root
before, doing anything in cups is also very slow.
All of this worked before in F-12. The printers are network
printers on our LAN.
Another F-12 computer next to this one works normally. I just
switched that computer on and once booted I was able to print 2
copies each of 2 pages in a minutes time so the rest of the
system is working normally. The problem is peculiar to the F-13
computer.
I have gone through the troubleshooting process that pops up
numerous times over the last couple of days to no avail.
I think that in this case it might be simpler to wipe out
everything to do with printing and start over configuring with cups?
Am I the only one with this problem? Suggestions welcome?
Bob
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13 years, 9 months
Gnash cannot play YouTube movies
by Paul Smith
Dear All,
I have just installed Gnash on F13 x86_64, but I cannot play YouTube
movies on Firefox. Any advice?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
13 years, 9 months
differrence between 'yum remove' and 'yum erase'
by Alexander Volovics
Hello
What exactly is the difference (if any) between yum remove and
yum erase?
If there is a difference why is it not explained in the man/help
documentation?
If there is no difference why is not one of the options removed?
Alexander
13 years, 9 months
yum 'shortcomings'?
by Alexander Volovics
Hello
I recently installed gnome-commander.
Because gnome-commander needs 'meld', 'exiv2-libs', 'gnome-vfs2-smb'
these were also installed.
Today I removed gnome-commander with 'yum remove' but yum did not
include (or even suggest) meld, exiv2libs and gnome-vfs2-smb for
removal. Why?
These packages were exclusively associated with gnome-commander.
No other app needs them!
I know yum builds on rpm and rpm itself is not so versatile with
respect to removal but shouldn't yum(rpm) include some more stringent
'removal-options' (including removing the gnome-commander created
directory ".gnome-commander" in the home folder).
apt/synaptic seems to include a 'complete removal' option.
Alexander
13 years, 9 months
Multimedia video on netbook
by jack craig
Hi Folks,
I just loaded VLC on my netbook and was able to view my recent manta ray
night diving video.
However, given its normal power saving procedure, it dims the screen
shortly after the video starts.
Is there any prevailing wisdom how to handle this feature during a video
display?
I am assuming watching movies has the same issue...
tia, jackc...
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Jack Craig
Software Engineer
831.461.7100 x120
www.extraview.com
13 years, 9 months
Getting on Internet with 13
by John Clark
I can't seem to get my browser/email to connect to Internet. In
terminal I can ping www.google.com to my hearts content but I can't
connect to it with Firefox. I have no hair to pull out and I don't want
to pull scalp. BTW, Ubuntu gets on just fine, out of the box, but I
can't stand Debian Linux.
13 years, 9 months
evolution-data-server
by Chris Kloiber
Why is evolution-data-server still broken after this much time, and is
anything being done to correct it? I'm guessing all the dependencies
must be rebuilt against the new package.
So far I get the best results adding to the yum.conf:
exclude=evolution*
and occasionally un-commenting it to see if it's fixed.
------------------------
...
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libedataserver-1.2.so.11 for package:
nautilus-sendto-2.28.4-1.fc13.i686
--> Processing Dependency: libedataserver-1.2.so.11 for package:
gnome-panel-2.30.0-1.fc13.i686
---> Package evolution-data-server.i686 0:2.30.2-2.fc13 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: gnome-panel-2.30.0-1.fc13.i686
(@anaconda-InstallationRepo-201005130056.i386)
Requires: libedataserver-1.2.so.11
Removing: evolution-data-server-2.30.1-2.fc13.i686
(@anaconda-InstallationRepo-201005130056.i386)
Error: Package: nautilus-sendto-2.28.4-1.fc13.i686
(@anaconda-InstallationRepo-201005130056.i386)
Requires: libedataserver-1.2.so.11
Removing: evolution-data-server-2.30.1-2.fc13.i686
(@anaconda-InstallationRepo-201005130056.i386)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
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Chris Kloiber
13 years, 9 months