F14 misbehavior of gnome-session-properties
by Beartooth
F14 fully updated has been failing, on cold boot, to restore my
gnome terminal, which is 2.32.0. I have the gnome-session-properties
option set to remember running applications when logging out, and it does
always come up on Workspace 1. But that workspace, where I keep a
terminal with six or eight tabs open to three or four different profiles,
boots up blank.
This morning, in fact, all workspaces were blank. (I have 16 at
present.) There should've been another terminal on another space, a
couple of browsers, VirtualBox, and Pan 0.133 on still others.
Is this something I've done, or a bug?
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
12 years, 7 months
cursor : weird disappearances
by Beartooth
On at least two machines (my main PC, running F14 fully updated;
and my old laptop, an IBM Thinkpad T30 running F16 Beta on backup or
shell or whatever it's called) I've started seeing a really weird
behavior.
Every once in a while, completely unpredictably afaik, the cursor
suddenly disappears. I have it set to display its position when I hit
Ctrl; but it doesn't, until I wave the mouse around in huge sweeps. Once
I start doing that (and continuing to tap Ctrl every few seconds) it
eventually shows up somewhere at the outer edge of the screen.
I have an HP mouse at the PC (through a KVM switch), and a
Logitech mouse on the laptop.
What could be making it do that?? Is this a bug? A known bug?
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
12 years, 7 months
imac on lan, printing to f14: network host '192.168.2.8' is busy, will retry in 30 seconds
by Jackson Byers
I recently got help from this list and was able to print from imac on my lan
to an hp printer connected to my f14 box.
Now, yet another problem trying to print from an imac on my lan
to the same laserjet, but now used by another version of f14
[root@f14 ~]# uname -r
2.6.35.14-97.fc14.i686
this new version of f14 is one I just recently installed from downloaded iso,
using hardisk install, all of that went smoothly.
But I must have messed up the cups config somehow.
The imac sees the printer, but response is "... is busy, will retry..."
Dialog screen when clicking on the bounceing printer icon on the imac:
printer ready
connecting to printer
network host '192.168.2.8' is busy, will retry in 30 seconds
----
from lpstat on the imac:
iMacg5:~ carole$ lpstat -t
scheduler is running
system default destination: HP-LaserJet-2200
device for HP-LaserJet-2200: ipp://192.168.2.8:631/printers/HP-LaserJet-2200
HP-LaserJet-2200 accepting requests since Fri Oct 14 10:04:10 2011
printer HP-LaserJet-2200 is idle. enabled since Fri Oct 14 10:04:10 2011
Connecting to printer...
iMacg5:~ carole$
advice?
Jack
12 years, 7 months
Fedora 15 + scsi tape drive
by Bill Perry
I had an older box which I was using as the site backup machine. A
friend gave me a HP DAT72 drive and I got it up and working on the
Fedora 11 OS. I did backups and tested everything. The tape drive was
accessed as /dev/st4. This box ran Samba and users copied their files to
the this machine. I did backups using:
tar cvf /dev/st4 /home/<user> /home/<user>
Then I decided to upgrade. I swapped out the motherboard and got a 64
bit cpu and upgraded the OS (complete new install). I now have Fedora 15
running on the box.
The tape drive has been visible as /dev/st4 occasionally. And when it is
I have used it to make a small backup and test the restore. But the
/dev/st4 is not always visible and the file /dev/st4 usually disappears
upon reboot. I don't know what I did to make it appear (if anything).
It almost looks like the device changed from /dev/st4 to /dev/st0. Is
that possible?
Some more info:
#ls /dev/st*
/dev/st0 /dev/st0a /dev/st0l /dev/st0m /dev/stderr /dev/stdin
/dev/stdout
#lsscsi
[0:0:0:0] cd/dvd PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-106D 1.08 /dev/sr0
[2:0:0:0] disk ATA WDC WD2500JS-60M 10.0 /dev/sda
[2:0:1:0] disk ATA ST2000DL003-9VT1 CC32 /dev/sdb
[3:0:0:0] disk ATA ST2000DL003-9VT1 CC32 /dev/sdc
[3:0:1:0] disk ATA ST2000DL003-9VT1 CC32 /dev/sdd
[4:0:4:0] tape HP C7438A V312 /dev/st0
# dmesg |grep tape
[ 25.211496] st 4:0:4:0: Attached scsi tape st0
#cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: PIONEER Model: DVD-RW DVR-106D Rev: 1.08
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD2500JS-60M Rev: 10.0
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
Vendor: ATA Model: ST2000DL003-9VT1 Rev: CC32
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: ATA Model: ST2000DL003-9VT1 Rev: CC32
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
Vendor: ATA Model: ST2000DL003-9VT1 Rev: CC32
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi4 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
Vendor: HP Model: C7438A Rev: V312
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
#tar cvf /dev/st4 /root
tar: /dev/st4: Cannot open: No such device or address
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
#tar cvf /dev/st0 /root
<does nothing - just times out after a few minutes with the following
message>
tar: /dev/st0: Cannot open: Input/output error
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
#./rescan-scsi-bus.sh
Host adapter 4 (aic7xxx) found.
./rescan-scsi-bus.sh: line 31: [: too many arguments
Host adapter * (device_info) found.
Scanning hosts 4 * channels 0 for
SCSI target IDs 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 , LUNs 0
Scanning for device 4 0 4 0 ...
OLD: Host: scsi4 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
Vendor: HP Model: C7438A Rev: V312
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
0 new device(s) found. d.txt 0 7 0 ...
0 device(s) removed.
#MAKEDEV /dev/st4
# ls /dev/st*
/dev/st0 /dev/st0l /dev/st4 /dev/st4l /dev/stderr /dev/stdout
/dev/st0a /dev/st0m /dev/st4a /dev/st4m /dev/stdin
#tar cvf /dev/st4 /root
tar: /dev/st4: Cannot open: No such device or address
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
# mt -f /dev/st4 status
/dev/st4: No such device or address
#tar cvf /dev/st0 /root
tar: /dev/st0: Cannot open: Input/output error
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
# mt -f /dev/st0 status
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=-1, block number=-1, partition=0.
Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x0 (default).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (10000):
IM_REP_EN
#<Reboot>
ls /dev/st*
/dev/st0 /dev/st0a /dev/st0l /dev/st0m /dev/stderr /dev/stdin
/dev/stdout
Does anybody have a clue? Is there some command that I am missing? What
can I do? Thanks for any help!
Bill
12 years, 7 months
Turning Off GNOME Warnings
by Dave Cross
GNOME seems to think that my laptop has a dodgy hard disk. It's been
telling me that for over a year. I'm not sure that it's correct, but
I'm keeping a close eye on the situation anyway.
Under GNOME 2 I would get a notification of this problem each time I
restarted the computer. A pop-up would tell me there was a problem and
I'd close the pop-up and forget about it.
Under GNOME 3 this notification is rather more persistent. GNOME
insists on repeating the pop-up every twenty minutes or so. This isn't
realyl very helpful.
Is there any way to get GNOME to revert to the previous behaviour
where I'm only told about a problem once?
Cheers,
Dave...
--
Dave Cross :: dave(a)dave.org.uk
http://dave.org.uk/
@davorg
12 years, 7 months
Re: Disable yum update check for PackageKit
by Ardhan Madras
Sorry, It's actually the router that has CDMA connection.
My FC15 box connected and using it as gateway. The router
connection got sloooow when PackageKit was running in the FC15.
I want to disable automatic PackageKit yum update check.
Ardhan
--- hughsient(a)gmail.com wrote:
From: Richard Hughes <hughsient(a)gmail.com>
To: ajhwb(a)knac.com, Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Re: Disable yum update check for PackageKit
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:39:59 +0100
On 13 October 2011 12:51, Ardhan Madras <ajhwb(a)knac.com> wrote:
> How to disable PackageKit's yum update that sometime
> run in background?, I have very sloooooooooow and limited CDMA
> internet connection.
PackageKit shouldn't be doing background operations when on mobile
broadband, are you using NetworkManager to start the CDMA connection?
Richard
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12 years, 7 months
Fedora 16 Beta - Google Account Integration
by D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr.
Hello all.
Yesterday I installed F16B on the laptop and was really excited when I
found out it would easily integrate all my Google Services into the
computer. However, after authenticating and enabling all the things I
wanted, I could not find any calendar, mail, or contacts from my
Google account anywhere.
Is this feature not fully functional yet?
Thanks,
David
12 years, 7 months
restricted shell
by Benjamin
Hi Friends,
I want to configure restricted shell for one of my server.
I want to allow specific commands only to my local admin , means he can
use only commands which i allowed for him.no more commands or any other
bash facility he can't use.
Please guide me , how to setup such kind of environment.
I am using fedora 15.
Regards,
Benjo
12 years, 7 months
Firefox 7 on Fedora 14
by Colin Paul Adams
Is it possible to have Firefox continually updated by rpm on a Fedora 14
system, or do I have to choose between staying on Fedora 3 or using
tarball installs?
--
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire
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12 years, 7 months