problem with fedora when booting
by Adel ESSAFI
Dear list
My fedora system does not boot after selecting fedora from grub.
I get a black screen with a cursor and after that, nothing happens (no error
messages appears...)
Even when I boot with single mode, the same bevaviour happens.
I have fedora 14 on a dell laptop.
Can you help?
Regards
Adel
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12 years, 11 months
Another weird systemd problem (I guess) : stunnel
by Tom Horsley
I run stunnel as a service using an old sysv style
service init.d script I cobbled up a while back. I
checked to make sure it dynamically creates the
/var/run/stunnel directory it needs since /var/run
is now tempfs, and it already had code to do that.
The service appears to start, and I can even see
stunnel processes running, but if I try to actually
use the stunnel connection, it doesn't work, for
example:
postfix/smtpd[2568]: lost connection after CONNECT from localhost[127.0.0.1]
That is postfix trying to use stunnel to talk to
a relayhost to send mail right after a boot.
Weirdly, if I do "service stunnel restart", I can
then use stunnel with no problems.
I finally put this line in rc.local, and stunnel
seems to be working now when I boot:
/bin/bash -c 'sleep 5 ; service stunnel restart' > /dev/null 2>&1 < /dev/null &
I can't think what might not be working at the time
the stunnel service originally starts, since it is
very late in boot.log, but maybe it has the same
problem folks have been reporting with sendmail and
NFS mounts?
12 years, 11 months
Where is the gtk theme stashed?
by Tom Horsley
I was able to make the selection look like something that
was actually selected when the default theme changed
in fedora 13 by running gnome-appearance-properties
and modifying the selection color to match fedora 12's
default color.
I'm using my same home directory now in fedora 15, but
whatever gconf magic stashes that selection modification
is no longer being used by the fedora 15 gtk theme,
so I'm now back to this feeble barely noticeable selection
that looks a lot like other random highlights and doesn't
stand out as the actual selection.
I'd like to change the color back, but there is no
gnome-appearance-properties in fedora 15 anymore,
so I have no idea where to look to change it.
Anyone know?
Actually, I'd also love to get back the firefox 3
cursor it used when hovering over links. The big
black blocky finger in firefox 4 is pretty distracting.
12 years, 11 months
Vmware Workstation on Fedora 15
by Michael Eager
Has anyone been able to install VM Workstation 6.5 on Fedora 15?
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12 years, 11 months
Massively parallel (8 to 10 stream) music server/generator ?
by linux guy
We are considering the purchase of a house.
It has about 8 "zones" ie kitchen, living room, bedroom, patio, library,
etc.
Each zone has 2 to 4 speakers in it, all of which are wired such that
they terminate in the utility room.
The builder of the house did not provide any wiring for an A/V
controller in any of the zones, nor an IR extender.
I'd like to build a server that generates music for each of the zones.
I'm thinking that it would serve web pages that would allow users to
select various music material and direct it to one or more zones via any
device that supports a web browser.
On the hardware end of things, I'm thinking one could use 1 USB sound
card plus an amplifier for each zone.
How many USB sound cards could a single i5 ish PC running linux in
console mode feed ? (MP3, wav, flac formats)
Sometimes one will want to play the same music simultaneously across
multiple zones. Ie, during dinner, one might want to play music in the
kitchen and the dinning room. Is there a way to sync playback between
multiple USB sound cards ?
Is there a better way to generate music for this house ?
Thanks
12 years, 11 months
logwatch Mail Not Delivered
by Garry Williams
I noticed that logwatch mail stopped on my F15 system recently. The
problem was that some update turned off sendmail. The mail was being
generated, but could not be delivered because nothing was listening on
the mail port at localhost.
The fix is:
sudo systemctl start sendmail.service
sudo systemctl enable sendmail.service
I'm wondering why this service was turned off?
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Garry Williams
12 years, 11 months
How to choose network path with two internet connection
by Armelius Cameron
Hello,
Suppose I have a laptop that has both Wired and Wireless connection. The
Wired connection would be connected to LAN only. The Wireless connection
would have full internet access. Obviously the two connections will have two
different IP: a local IP address (e.g. 192.168.x.x) for the Wired, and a
public IP address for the Wireless.
How does an application know which network path to use ?
For example, I want to be able to run SSH or Synergy to other machine on the
LAN, so SSH would have to use the LAN network. But I also want to be able to
run mail client that is connected to an IMAP server in the outside world, so
my mail client have to use the Wireless network. How does something like
this work ?
Thanks.
AC
12 years, 11 months
KVM/qemu USB pass-through not working for Win7 guest
by Patrick Oltmann
Hy there
I'm running a KVM/qemu virtual machine with Win7 as a guest and need a USB
device (Smartcard reader w/ PIN pad) to be passed through into that virtual
machine. Therefore I use the "-device usb-host, hostbus=X, hostaddr=Y,
id=hostdev0" command line parameter. However, the device does not show up in
the Win7 guest, but does appear when do the same with a Linux guest system
(which doesn't make much sense to me since KVM should be a full-virtualized
system). Any ideas on how to solve this?
The host system is a Xeon W3680 running F15 64-bit:
kernel.x86_64 (2.6.38.6-27.fc15)
qemu.x86_64 (0.14.0-7.fc15)
libvirt.x86_64 (0.8.8-4.fc15)
virt-manager.noarch (0.8.7-4.fc15)
Thanks in advance!
Patrick
12 years, 11 months
F15, Gnome 3 and Mouse Pointer Size
by david grant
Is there a way of increasing the pointer size, an option that is in
Gnome2? I have googled away but cannot find any reference to such an
option. Either I have missed something simple or the option has been
removed.
David
12 years, 11 months