Firsttime Fedora User - Trouble Logging On First Time
by earlscott3@comcast.net
I solved my own issue.
My main issue was (I think), was using a very long password and multiple characters/uppercase/lower case, etc.
Learnign Linux (Fedora) the hard way but Google send me to the Fedora forum everytime with a good answer.
If anyone gets in my same situation:
-I was using VMware to install Fedora 13.
-made a long username and over 16 character password
-install went great, no issues.
-booted up to the log in screen and could not guess my username password or enter the correct root password
-modified the .vmx file to give me 15secs to get into the BIOS (would not take less than 15secs)
-made a DVD from the .iso I was using that installed the VM for me
-selected the rescue mode
-got to the shell
-entered chroot /mnt/sysimage
-entered the passwd and got a authenticated error
-not really sure what I did next, I think it was entered su -
-did the passwd again
-entered sync
-entered reboot
13 years, 9 months
Monitoring file use
by Jean Francois Martinez
Hello
I need to monitor which files in a partition are being intensively used
and which not. Basing on atime doesn't work since this machine is under
scheduled back-ups.
Any ideas?
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JF Martinez
13 years, 9 months
Firsttime Fedora User - Trouble Logging On First Time
by earlscott3@comcast.net
I ran the install and got to the login screen, it showed the username I input at the beginning but I can not get past the password requirement.
It states authentication failure, but I know I typed in the password correctlyat the beginning.
I tried all sorts of usernames/passwords and still can not log in.
Fedora 13 (Goddard) Desktop 64bit
Help, please.
Earl
13 years, 9 months
problem with yum update (FC12)
by Colin Paul Adams
For a week now I have been getting:
sudo yum update
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package firefox.x86_64 0:3.5.12-1.fc12 set to be updated
---> Package xulrunner.x86_64 0:1.9.1.12-1.fc12 set to be updated
---> Package xulrunner-devel.x86_64 0:1.9.1.12-1.fc12 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: pkgconfig(nspr) >= 4.8.6 for package: xulrunner-devel-1.9.1.12-1.fc12.x86_64
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: xulrunner-devel-1.9.1.12-1.fc12.x86_64 (updates)
Requires: pkgconfig(nspr) >= 4.8.6
Installed: nspr-devel-4.8.4-2.fc12.x86_64 (@updates)
pkgconfig(nspr) = 4.8.4
Available: nspr-devel-4.8.2-1.fc12.i686 (fedora)
pkgconfig(nspr) = 4.8.2
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
I tried rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest to no effect. It seems I need a
newer nspr than is available.
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13 years, 9 months
complaining about gcc compiler
by zico banerjee
hey guys i am new to fedora13 and after writing a program in c i cant
compile it using "gcc <file_name>"comand.........it gives "comand not
found"
please help...........
13 years, 9 months
can i run a fully and exclusively NFSv4 network?
by Robert P. J. Day
a while back, i noted on fedora 12 that it seemed impossible to try
to run NFS exclusively in version 4 mode:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552144
i just noted the same thing on centos/rhel 5.5. that is, if i edit
/etc/sysconfig/nfs and uncomment the lines:
MOUNTD_NFS_V1="no"
MOUNTD_NFS_V2="no"
MOUNTD_NFS_V3="no
i would have thought that this would mean that i'm trying to use NFSv4
exclusively. but if i try that, i still get that same error from
mountd on rhel as i did on fedora.
i've verified that, to get around it, i simply need to advertise at
least one of those earlier versions, doesn't matter which one. so,
according to red hat's jeff layton, that's still a bug in mountd,
correct?
and in a larger context, if you had control over an entire network
in terms of NFS both client and servers, is it feasible to run the
entire network using only NFSv4? thanks.
rday
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13 years, 9 months
Can't tell which hard drive to install Fedora 13 OS to.
by allen@math.binghamton.edu
Hi all,
I am using a laptop with two hard drives in it, one which has Windows
Vista installed on it, and another physical drive which is a Data drive,
each of them are 150 GB in capacity. I wanted to convert my Data drive
into a disk that has Fedora 13 (KDE Spin) on it. I made a 2GB USB pen
drive into a LiveUSB with the KDE Spin ISO file on it and my computer
boots up fine into Fedora 13 with it. However, when I go to "Install to
Hard Drive," I am presented with a conundrum. When I go to select which
drive I want to install the Fedora OS to, the drives are virtually
indistinguishable, save for differing IDs which are just strings of random
numbers and letters. I can't, for example, tell from this how much space
is left on either, or which drive has Windows installed on it, and I don't
want to partition one for Fedora 13 only to find out that it was the drive
with Windows on it and end up losing all of my information. Does anyone
know of a way to distinguish between the two, or can anyone help me
through this process? Thank you for your time and help!
Dan
13 years, 9 months
FLAC on FC13
by Alex
Hi,
I hope this isn't a FAQ because I wasn't able to find anything
searching, yet it sure seems like it would be an obvious FAQ.
How can I play FLAC audio files on FC13? MPlayer and Rythmbox don't
seem to support them?
If not, what should I use to convert them to MP3?
Thanks,
Alex
13 years, 9 months
[OT] e-mail problems
by Steve Blackwell
I have been having some problems with my e-mail for about a week or so.
Some e-mails are not getting delivered but most are.
I contacted my ISP and they had me plug the cable modem directly to the
computer instead of through the router and the problems appear to go
away.
This makes no sense to me. If someone sending an e-mail to me gets
the mail bounced back to them with a server time out error from the ISP,
how could my router affect that? The router in question is a Linksys
e3000. I called them too but they won't talk to me with sending them $s.
Can anyone explain that or is my ISP blowing smoke?
Steve
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13 years, 9 months