Firefox 9 on F16 can not set Home Page
by Aaron Konstam
On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 22:56 +0000, g wrote:
> On 12/27/2011 09:28 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > In Firefox 9 in F16 I can't set the home page. I make my web page
> > www.Google.com. Then I go to preferences and click "Use Current Page".
> > This works for a while. But when I reboot the home page becomes Bing.
> > Is anyone else having this trouble and know how to fix it?
> -=-
>
> this has happened many times with firefox releases and with 9.
>
> have a look at this page;
>
> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/How%20to%20set%20the%20home%20page
>
> also, are you opening pages in a new tab or window?
>
I reported that the method described in the web page worked. Well the
home page I set survived a restart but not a shut down and reboot.
So I am mystified why this behavior is different than all other versions
of firefox and how to make the home page stay as I set it.
--
=======================================================================
Universities are places of knowledge. The freshman each bring a little
in with them, and the seniors take none away, so knowledge accumulates.
=======================================================================
Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net
12 years, 4 months
change existing RAID10 to "far layout"
by Reindl Harald
>> for better performance you could use RAID10 in the far layout instead (raid10,f2),
>> this is a direct replacement with the enhanced raid10 driver, which gives double
>> the sequential read speed compared to raid1. Use "--level=10 -p f2" as additional
>> parameters when creating arrays with mdadm.
hmm is there a way to change this in an existing RAID10?
i think i would like this for / where read-performance is much
more important and /dev/md2 is perfectly with near-layout
for write-performance (hughe data, virtual machines)
________________
[root@raid ~]# mdadm --grow /dev/md1 --level=10 -p f2
mdadm: RAID10 can only be changed to RAID0
[root@raid ~]# mdadm --grow /dev/md1 -p f2
mdadm: RAID10 can only be changed to RAID0
[root@raid ~]# mdadm --misc /dev/md1 -p f2
mdadm: option -p not valid in misc mode
________________
md2 : active raid10 sdc3[0] sdd3[3] sda3[4] sdb3[5]
3875222528 blocks super 1.1 512K chunks 2 near-copies [4/4] [UUUU]
bitmap: 7/29 pages [28KB], 65536KB chunk
md1 : active raid10 sdc2[0] sdd2[3] sda2[4] sdb2[5]
30716928 blocks super 1.1 512K chunks 2 near-copies [4/4] [UUUU]
bitmap: 1/1 pages [4KB], 65536KB chunk
md0 : active raid1 sdc1[0] sdd1[3] sda1[4] sdb1[5]
511988 blocks super 1.0 [4/4] [UUUU]
12 years, 4 months
F16 - a good experience
by mike cloaked
I know that recently some folk have posted of bad experiences with f16
- however I am running f16 on 6 machines (4 laptops and 2 desktops)
with 4 x86_64 and 2 i686 - and all are now stable, and running with a
responsive and crisp xfce desktop. I can do everything that I need to
do, and one of the machines is a server and has performed flawlessly
since its install about a month ago.
Yes it does need some love and attention to get things configured and
set up working as desired (and some lookups and learning) - but I am
really pretty happy overall with f16 now - so this is general thank
you to all developers and testers in getting f16 to a good working
state - of course there are some residual bugs which need squashing
(Name "any" system has zero bugs after all!).
Have a great New Year all.
--
mike c
12 years, 4 months
Question about hard disk installation
by Alick Zhao
Hi all,
I have a question about installing Fedora from hard disk.
I downloaded a DVD iso, extract vmlinuz and initrd.img to
partition A, then I put iso file onto partition B.
Since I have grub (grub1) from old version of Fedora, I can
use it to boot extracted vmlinuz, and start my installation.
I already know that partition B should be ext2/3/4 or FAT, and
should never be formatted during installation. Now I wonder
what requirements should partition A have. Can partition A be
formatted during installation? Is it necessary A is ext3/4?
Is it better that A is the same as B?
Note: yeah I indeed have installed Fedora 16. During my installation
partition A is a small not-used ext3 partition. The installation
works as expected. Now I just want to know whether partition A
can be say my old / partition(which will be formatted).
Note again: this is my first post here. If this question is asked
and answered before, hope someone can point me there.
--
alick
Fedora 16 (Verne) user
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Alick
12 years, 4 months
Re: F16 - a good experience - except Zenbook trackpad + couple of other things
by Philip Rhoades
People,
> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:41:58 -0500
> From: Lucélio Gomes de Freitas <aa.lucelio(a)gmail.com>
> To: Community support for Fedora users
> <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Subject: Re: F16 - a good experience
> Message-ID: <4EFDCDB6.4010102(a)gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> +1
>
> Em 30-12-2011 06:34, mike cloaked escreveu:
>> I know that recently some folk have posted of bad experiences with
>> f16
>> - however I am running f16 on 6 machines (4 laptops and 2 desktops)
>> with 4 x86_64 and 2 i686 - and all are now stable, and running with
>> a
>> responsive and crisp xfce desktop. I can do everything that I need
>> to
>> do, and one of the machines is a server and has performed flawlessly
>> since its install about a month ago.
>>
>> Yes it does need some love and attention to get things configured
>> and
>> set up working as desired (and some lookups and learning) - but I am
>> really pretty happy overall with f16 now - so this is general thank
>> you to all developers and testers in getting f16 to a good working
>> state - of course there are some residual bugs which need squashing
>> (Name "any" system has zero bugs after all!).
+1 from me too but has anyone got a solution to the Zenbook trackpad
hassles? (I am using XFCE) out and also:
- the Webcam not recognised
- the USB Ethernet dongle not recognised
Suggestions about possible fixes appreciated!
Thanks,
Phil.
--
Philip Rhoades
GPO Box 3411
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au
12 years, 4 months
Mounting Motorola Atrix under Linux
by Wade Hampton
Happy New Year.
I have a Motorola Atrix and an Atrix 2. Both have internal and
external SD cards. Plugging them into my Fedora 16 64-bit
both are recognized but only the external is mounted. I can't
even manually mount the internal one.
One post I saw indicated that CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y
must be set when building the kernel. I am on 3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64.
AFIK it is set in the .config as provided by the kernel source RPM.
On my earlier Fedora (14 or 15, i386), both partitions were
mounted. Both partitions are visible under Windows.
A test on an updated F14 shows only one is mounted, however.
>From dmesg:
[ 9026.657123] usb 2-2: new high speed USB device number 23 using ehci_hcd
[ 9026.785933] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=22b8, idProduct=7087
[ 9026.785943] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 9026.785950] usb 2-2: Product: MB860
[ 9026.785955] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: Motorola
[ 9026.785960] usb 2-2: SerialNumber: [REDACTED]
[ 9026.792361] scsi16 : usb-storage 2-2:1.0
[ 9027.799174] scsi 16:0:0:0: Direct-Access Motorola MB860
0000 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 9027.800260] scsi 16:0:0:1: Direct-Access Motorola MB860
0000 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 9027.802140] sd 16:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 9027.802674] sd 16:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[ 9027.824870] sd 16:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 9027.826869] sd 16:0:0:1: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 9044.467450] sd 16:0:0:1: [sdc] 31116288 512-byte logical blocks:
(15.9 GB/14.8 GiB)
[ 9044.469565] sd 16:0:0:1: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
[ 9044.469575] sd 16:0:0:1: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 9044.474565] sd 16:0:0:1: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
[ 9044.474573] sd 16:0:0:1: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
Any ideas?
--
Wade Hampton
12 years, 4 months
No title bar on app windows under XFCE in one user
by Joel Rees
Anyone else getting this kind of problem where app windows under XFCE
in one particular user, but not in another, come up without title
bars (and thus no close box, etc.)?
The menu bar is there and functions.
12 years, 4 months
F16 (gnome/default)- cpu usage 100%
by Nermin Celik
Hello,
I've just upgraded my computer from F12 to F16 (Gnome Desktop
Edition/Default). Although haven't played with F16 much, it looks quiet
impressive. Thank you for the developers and contributors.
Question:
Firstly, my computer is 3-4 years old, with 2 CPUs, built by a friend. I'm
not much of a hardware person hence can not give further details. Sorry.
Just looking at System Monitor > Resources > , it shows that CPU1 and CPU2
are 100% used, although l'm not running any programs. Hence it seems that
my computer hardware is not compatible with F16 (default). Do you agree?
I'll be using more computer mainly to write/run Perl programs, run
bioinformatics tools, create/edit images. Hence is it best to install F16
KDE Spin, F16 LXDE Spin, F16 Xfce Spin or F15?
Thank you in advance for your assistance.
Regards,
N
12 years, 4 months
Implementing a "sometimes" RAID on a laptop. (eSATA, SSD, RAID 1)
by linux guy
I experienced a complete SSD failure this week on my laptop.
I've ordered a new Dell XPS 17 laptop which has an eSATA port.
Given the nature of the SSD failure I experienced, from now on I wish
to have my laptop running a RAID1 setup via the eSATA port when its
used on my desk. However, when its not used on my desk, I wish it to
function normally without the RAID functionality.
Question 1.
How does one set up a "sometimes" RAID ? Or would something like
rsync be better ? What happens the first time I plug my laptop into
the eSATA cable after being away from my desk ? What happens if there
is both new data and an error in existing data ? How does the RAID
software know the difference ?
Question 2.
Internally, my XPS17 has 2 hard drives. I will probably use an SSD
for the OS and a 750 GB 7200 RPM conventional drive for data.
How does one configure the single external eSATA RAID drive to back up
(mirror) the data for both internal drives ?
Question 3.
The OS drive will be an SSD which is faster than the eSATA RAID drive,
which will probably be a 7200 RPM 2TB+ conventional drive. Will this
limit the speed of the SSD to that of the eSATA drive or is buffering
employed to allow one to be faster than the other ?
Question 4.
Can only a portion of the eSATA RAID drive be allocated to the RAID
and the rest left to be mounted by the laptop for general access ?
Thanks !
12 years, 4 months