Small survey on bug/wishlist requests
by Ricardo Ferreira
First things first: I'm sorry if this message can be considered
off-topic or spam. I had no other way of accessing this many open source
software users in one swoop. Just ignore it if you think its spam.
Hi.
My name is Ricardo Ferreira and I've been a user of open source software
for a long time and also a casual bug reporter and contributor.
I recently got an assignment for university and i thought about doing a
survey on bug/wishlist requests and the software and artifacts used for
their creation.
For that I've created a very small survey in surveymonkey.com which will
only take 5 minutes at most to answer. It will really help me complete
the assignment if you take the time to answer it.
The survey is only for those who have created at least one bug/wishlist
report in one open source project.
Here is the link:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JBLR83L
Thank you for your help in advance!
12 years, 3 months
A mystery of Gnome 3.2 and failsafe mode
by Aaron Konstam
When I installed F16 it would not run in Gnome 3.2 mode because of some
deficiency in the hardware graphics. My graphics card is : 82945G/GZ.
Someone else on the list said he had the same card and Gnome 3.2 came
up. So we have our first mystery. I still have no idea exactly what
graphics cards have this deficiency. Any one to clarify?
Anyway in an attempt to clarify things I downloaded the Live F16 and
when that was run Gnome 3.2 came up normally. Why is this? The idea was
for me to have prior warning if F16 and Gnome 3.2 would run on my
laptop. The Live F16 runs but now we know that won't tell me anything.
Anybody have an idea how I would be able to guess if my laptop with run
F16 properly? I would rather not spend a half a day finding out.
On a sort of unrelated issue, after running the Live F16 on my laptop, I
found power off did not power off the laptop. It was still on but the on
and off button no longer worked. Has anyone else had this problem? It is
hard to completely shutoff the power to a laptop that has a working
battery. For awhile there I was kind of worried, since I did not want to
yank out the battery.
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Q: How many Marxists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: None: The
lightbulb contains the seeds of its own revolution.
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Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net
12 years, 3 months
Gnome 3 session seems to swamp Xorg since update
by Hugh Caley
Received an update to the kmod-nvidia driver this morning. Since then
every time I run a Gnome 3 session the X server gets very slow until it
stops responding altogether. Xfce doesn't seem to have this problem.
I'm not sure what to do about it. There doesn't seem to be an earlier
kmod-nvidia that I can downgrade to.
And I'm actually a little confused about how this works. I got a new
kernel yesterday; how is it that X worked properly before I got the
matching kmod-nvidia today?
Hugh
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Hugh Caley
Linux System Administrator
Aldon Business Area
Rocket Software
6001 Shellmound St. Ste. 600 · Emeryville, CA 94608 · USA
Tel:+1.510.285.8542
Email:hcaley@rocketsoftware.com
Web:http://rocketsoftware.com
12 years, 3 months
Help with a Windows Drive booted under VBOX on F14
by JD
Dear all,
I have a windows XP-Pro drive that was booting just fine
on real hardware.
However, While I was running Fedora 14 on a laptop,
on which VBox is installed, I took out the windows drive
from the other machine and connected it to the laptop
via a USB external box.
It booted just fin under VBox.
But now, it will not boot by itself on the real HW machine (a desktop) any
longer.
What happens is I see the screen switch to graphics mode, then
very very fast, some message comes out, way too fast for me to
read, and the machine then reboots.
Would appreciate some help to get to the bottom of this.
Thanx,
JD
12 years, 3 months
Re: help needing recovering bootloader after upgrade
by Chris Caudle
On Tue, January 24, 2012 12:07 pm, Chris Caudle wrote:
> The bootloader was not installed properly during a F15->F16
> upgrade, so I'm hoping someone on this list can point me in
> the correct direction to recover.
I have more detailed error information now, and I'm pretty sure I figured
out what is going on.
Using grub2-install from the rescue disk, I got this error:
"Your embedding area is unusually small. core.img won't fit in it.
embedding is not possible, but this is required for cross-disk install"
Went through the GRUB documentation, and found this in the section on the
various modules:
"The GRUB development team generally recommends embedding GRUB before the
first partition, unless you have special requirements. You must ensure
that the first partition starts at least 31 KiB (63 sectors) from the
start of the disk; "
Used fdisk to look at the partition table, and the first partition starts
at sector 32, but the docs clearly say the first partition must start at
63 or later.
So I'm currently running GPartEd from a live disk to shift the partition
on the first drive, then I'll run grub2-install again, which should have
enough space now. I'm fairly confident that will get the Fedora install
running again. May have to do some repairs on the Windows partition
bootloader, depending on whether there were any pointers set at install
time to a particular sector, or whether it just starts from the beginning
of the partition.
It appears that using one large disk with multiple partitions probably
wouldn't hit this problem, but having a separate disk for the Windows
installation and the Fedora installation, along with having the first
partition on the Windows disk start unusually close to the beginning of
the disk is what caused problems on this particular system.
There were a couple of suggestions that my boot partition needed to be
significantly larger, but from what I can tell that is only needed to use
preupgrade for upgrading a system. The grub2 files only take about 2MB,
and each kernel image still just takes about 25MB, so there should not be
anything in normal use which needs multi hundreds of MB on /boot.
--
Chris Caudle
12 years, 3 months
How to compile a standalone gtk problem using mingw?
by 严晶涛
Hello,
I have installed mingw32, when I use i686-pc-mingw32-gcc gtktest.c -o gtktest.exe `mingw32-pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+-2.0`,It's OK.but when I use i686-pc-mingw32-gcc gtktest.c -o gtktest.exe `mingw32-pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+-2.0` --static , It shows these errors:
/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libgdk-win32-2.0.a(gdkmain-win32.o):(.text+0x0): multiple definition of `_DllMain@12'
/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libgtk-win32-2.0.a(gtkmain.o):(.text+0x7c0): first defined here
/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libatk-1.0.a(atkobject.o):(.text+0x390): multiple definition of `_DllMain@12'
/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libgtk-win32-2.0.a(gtkmain.o):(.text+0x7c0): first defined here
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/4.6.1/../../../../i686-pc-mingw32/bin/ld: cannot find -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0
/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libpango-1.0.a(pango-utils.o):(.text+0xe80): multiple definition of `_DllMain@12'
/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libgtk-win32-2.0.a(gtkmain.o):(.text+0x7c0): first defined here
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
I'm using Fedora 16, and Installed these mingw32 packages:
mingw32-gcc-c++-4.6.1-3.fc16.i686
mingw32-gdk-pixbuf-2.24.0-1.fc16.noarch
mingw32-webkitgtk-1.6.1-1.fc16.noarch
mingw32-zlib-1.2.5-4.fc16.noarch
mingw32-pango-1.29.4-1.fc16.noarch
mingw32-pixman-static-0.22.2-1.fc16.noarch
mingw32-glib2-2.30.1-1.fc16.noarch
mingw32-libxml2-2.7.8-3.fc16.noarch
mingw32-w32api-3.17-1.fc16.noarch
mingw32-cairo-1.10.2-4.fc16.noarch
mingw32-libgpg-error-1.6-14.fc15.noarch
mingw32-runtime-3.18-4.fc16.noarch
mingw32-pixman-0.22.2-1.fc16.noarch
mingw32-libsoup-2.36.1-1.fc16.noarch
mingw32-cpp-4.6.1-3.fc16.i686
mingw32-termcap-1.3.1-9.fc15.noarch
mingw32-jasper-1.900.1-13.fc16.noarch
mingw32-cairo-static-1.10.2-4.fc16.noarch
mingw32-libxslt-1.1.26-4.fc16.noarch
mingw32-libxml2-static-2.7.8-3.fc16.noarch
mingw32-binutils-2.21-2.fc16.i686
mingw32-win-iconv-0.0.3-4.fc16.noarch
mingw32-libjpeg-turbo-1.1.1-5.fc16.noarch
mingw32-pango-static-1.29.4-1.fc16.noarch
mingw32-libgcrypt-1.4.4-5.fc15.noarch
mingw32-libsoup-static-2.36.1-1.fc16.noarch
mingw32-gcc-4.6.1-3.fc16.i686
mingw32-libffi-3.0.9-2.fc15.noarch
mingw32-expat-2.0.1-7.fc15.noarch
mingw32-glib2-static-2.30.1-1.fc16.noarch
mingw32-webkitgtk-static-1.6.1-1.fc16.noarch
mingw32-gettext-0.18.1.1-3.fc16.noarch
mingw32-atk-static-2.2.0-1.fc16.noarch
mingw32-filesystem-69-10.fc16.noarch
mingw32-atk-2.2.0-1.fc16.noarch
mingw32-sqlite-3.7.5-2.fc16.noarch
mingw32-pthreads-2.8.0-15.20110511cvs.fc16.noarch
mingw32-fontconfig-2.8.0-2.fc16.noarch
mingw32-gettext-static-0.18.1.1-3.fc16.noarch
mingw32-freetype-2.4.6-1.fc16.noarch
mingw32-gtk2-static-2.24.8-1.fc16.noarch
mingw32-libpng-1.4.8-2.fc16.noarch
mingw32-gtk2-2.24.8-1.fc16.noarch
mingw32-zlib-static-1.2.5-4.fc16.noarch
Tom
12 years, 3 months
MySQL is not working on PHP with Fedora 16
by Fedora Linux
Hello
I have a web application but it is not working on my Fedora 16 with PHP,
for some reason it is unable to connect to the MySQL server, it returns the
error:
[Sun Jan 22 08:40:24 2012] [error] [client ::1] PHP Warning:
mysql_connect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
'/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (13) in /var/www/html/install2.php on line 22,
referer: http://localhost/install.php
Notice that the user/password is correct, the PHP is installed and working
and MySQL is up and running...
Even the socket is there
# ls -l /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
srwxrwxrwx. 1 mysql mysql 0 Jan 22 08:37 /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
What can be the problem? The application is okay, I am using it in a
production server and it is running in 2 other local computers (with
slackware) for testing purposes...
This is the first time that I can't connect to MySQL via PHP... I don't
know if it requires an extra configuration or there is a missing package
that I should install... the httpd log does not give more details...
Thanks for any help!
12 years, 3 months
Vmware Workstation won't compile
by Lawrence E Graves
I am not able to launch Vmware Workstation 8.0.2 with the new kernel
3.2.1-3. Is there a patch?
--
Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.
12 years, 3 months