Download confirmation now not prompts me!
by Parshwa Murdia
hi,
In a sudden changing manner, now if I try to update the system, using
the command,
[fedorax@localhost ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@localhost ~]# yum update
It doesn't prompt me to type in 'y' or 'n' if some downloadable update
is there unlike earlier when I used to type in 'yes' to download a
particular package of some size and update the system. Not only in
this command but in some other commands also, I have the same thing
repeating when I am not being prompted for tying in 'y' or 'n' for the
confirmation of download. Why could this happen all of a sudden?
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Regards,
Parshwa Murdia
13 years, 8 months
Better Firefox fonts?
by Alex
Hi,
Quite often the fonts in a web page, or printing something from within
Firefox looks blurred. Here is a sample screenshot:
http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/7923/loc.png
It's a random page I chose to exhibit the problem. Printing web pages
also looks like crap, but perhaps that's something to do with the
printing system?
Is it possible this is instead the driver for my video card? I'm using
a dual-head HD5700:
[ 35.548] (--) PCI:*(0:6:0:0) 1002:68b8:174b:e147 ATI Technologies
Inc Juniper [Radeon HD 5700 Series] rev 0, Mem @ 0xd0000000/268435456,
0xfe9e0000/131072, I/O @ 0x0000e000/256, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072
[112179.601] (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1680x1050"x0.0 146.25 1680
1784 1960 2240 1050 1053 1059 1089 -hsync +vsync (65.3 kHz)
Are there other driver choices for this card with FC13, like perhaps
one that supports the 3D acceleration?
In any case, I recall seeing a doc that described how to install the
Windows TT fonts, but can't find it now. I believe it was also for an
older version.
Thanks,
Alex
13 years, 8 months
grub-install question
by JD
A friend has a PC with
windows only on the main boot disk,
and another windows + F13 on the second disk.
Because he did not install grub on sda, he can only boot
windows on sda. Bios boot menu does not allow him to
select the second disk for booting. Only way he can
boot second disk is by disabling main disk (sda) in bios,
and then bios will boot from the second disk.
Since I do not have such a setup, nor such a PC, I needed
to find out the following:
if main disk is disabled in bios, and fedora is booted
from 2nd disk, is boot disk named /dev/sda as far as
Fedora is concerned? Or is it named /dev/sdb ??
So, now if he wants to use grub-install to iinstall the
boot loader onto the bios-disabled-drive,
a- is that drive visible to Fedora?
b- if it is visible, what will it's name be?
c- Assuming it is visible and Fedora names it /dev/sdb
and he runs: grub-install --recheck /dev/sdb
will grub-install attempt to put the grub image files in
the root directory of /dev/sdb??
(Note: as explained above, the main boot drive, disabled-in-bios, is all
a windows drive).
I am concerned that grub-install might damage windows.
13 years, 8 months
SELINUX
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
Trying to install the intel compiler, I get:
Your system is protected with Security-enhanced Linux (SELinux).
We currently support only "Permissive" mode, which is
not found on the system.
To rectify this issue, you may either disable SELinux by
- setting the line "SELINUX=disabled" in your
/etc/sysconfig/selinux file
- adding "selinux=0" kernel argument in lilo.conf or grub.conf
files
or make SELinux mode adjustment by
- setting the line "SELINUX=permissive" in your
/etc/sysconfig/selinux file
or ask your system administrator to make SELinux mode adjustment.
Would ou just turn off SELINX ?
I know I need to learn about SELinux !
Thank.
--
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==========================================================================
Patrick DUPRÉ | |
Department of Chemistry | | Phone: (44)-(0)-1904-434384
The University of York | | Fax: (44)-(0)-1904-432516
Heslington | |
York YO10 5DD United Kingdom | | email: pd520(a)york.ac.uk
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13 years, 8 months
Problem browsing http://bugzilla.kernel.org/
by JD
Aimed my firefox at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/
and got this error:
Software error:
Can't connect to the database.
Error: Too many connections
Is your database installed and up and running?
Do you have the correct username and password selected in localconfig?
For help, please send mail to the webmaster (root@localhost
<mailto:root@localhost>), giving this error message and the time and
date of the error.
Is this a bugzilla server problem?
13 years, 8 months
Re: Thunderbird attach files (was Re: General desktop questions)
by Alex
Hi,
>> The bookmarks to two network shares appear when in Nautilus, but not
>> in Thunderbird.
>
> No, that's consistent with what I see. The Bookmarks available off the
> Places menu pad in GNOME list the temporary shares/mounts that you've
> created and saved as bookmarks. These don't show up in the "Attach"
> dialog within Thunderbird. If you open the bookmarks in advance, the
> mount shows up in the top part of the Attach dialog. I've resigned
> myself to "that's how the Nautilus developers think it should work"
> purely from empirical observation.
I think I can also now attribute instant lock-up of Thunderbird to
this approach. I browsed to the .gvfs directory, and poof, Thunderbird
locked, taking my email composition down with it. It's almost like
it's waiting for an event to occur that will never happen, like access
to the device.
Wonder if there is a way to troubleshoot it while it's locked, or
perhaps signal it so it stops searching so I don't lose my email? :-)
This is the second time it's happened, out of probably five or six
times in total that I've tried.
> I've never tried this myself, and don't think that was the way it was
> intended to be used. Of course, they shouldn't present an "Add" option
> if they're not really going to honor your request.
Yes, it didn't seem intuitive to me, either. Like Tim said in his
follow-up, it didn't make sense for Web bookmarks to be used for
files, although I thought it was a euphemism for "soft link".
Other suggestions on how best to do this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Alex
13 years, 8 months
Java/Firefox craziness
by Bill Case
Hi;
Just some clarification and double checking.
I want to use a Canadian government site with Firefox on Fedora 13. I
get the warning message that I need Sun JVM 1.6.0_3 or greater. There
is nothing in the repositories that I can see resembling Sun JVM.
Apparently I can download and install from Sun, but I get messages that
no new updates are being made available.
Before frustration overtakes me and I start downloading unknown and
unneeded stuff. What exactly do I want and where should I get it?
(Irony => the site isn't working in WindowsXP Explorer either)
--
Regards Bill
Fedora 13, Gnome 2.30.2
Evo.2.20.2, Emacs 23.2.1
13 years, 8 months
Fedora 13 on Dell E6410 screen resolution problem
by Tony Molloy
Hi,
I'm installing Fedora-13 on a Dell E6410 laptop. This has an NVidia Quadro NVS
3100M graphics card. The install goes fine .
When I boot with the "nomodeset" kernel boot parameter I only get 800x600
resolution.
If I leave out the "nomodeset" parameter I get a blank screen.
Does anybody have the magic incantations to get this graphics card recognised
with reasonable resolution.
I've tried with the live CD and get a blank screen also.
Thanks,
Tony
13 years, 8 months
Missing Codec in Fedora 13
by Marvin Kosmal
Hi
Just installed Fedora 13. Upgraded from 12..
My movie player will not work.
Error message below..
The playback of this movie requires a Advanced Streaming Format (ASF)
demuxer plugin which is not installed.
Neither yum or the package manager could find it.
I googled and got a 1000 hits.. After checking I am not sure who/what
to trust...
Is there a trusted Fedora site where I can get this codec??
TIA
Marvin
13 years, 8 months
General desktop questions
by Alex
Hi,
I have few questions about how to accomplish some things on the
desktop, and hoped someone could help.
- How can I change the highlighting of text using the mouse in a
Terminal to automatically copy without having to right-click then
Copy, and paste automatically by clicking the right-mouse button,
similar to how putty works?
- How can I attach a file to an email in Thunderbird that is on a
samba share? I've mounted the share in the file browser, then dragged
it over to the email, but Thunderbird responds with a permission
denied type of error, like the file either isn't accessible in
Thunderbird, or is only shared from within the File Browser. I've also
tried going through Thunderbird, but there doesn't appear to be a way
to connect to a network share, only the local disk.
- How can I create the ability for a normal user from within GNOME to
either be prompted once for the root password for administrative
tasks, or be able to start X11 as a normal user, yet have the ability
to perform root administrative functions like mount devices or create
new printer shares?
Thanks,
Alex
13 years, 8 months