Phonon GST/XINE (was Amarok)
by jarmo
It seems, that problems leads into phonon-gst combination. Seem also,
that there's not backend for xine anymore in F17. Earlier didn't pay
any attention, because used vlc. Now granddaughter wanted to use amarok
with iPod. Something IS! totally going wrong, with this
phonon/pulseaudio crab. That's sure, that gst's good,bad,ugly has
something, that does not worky. Propably this is KDE related, but if it
comes with system, so expect to work anyway. Now, Gurus, is there any
change throw away Phonon ..etc and install working system instead?
Jarmo
11 years, 6 months
genkey segfaults when creating new cert
by Alex
Hi,
I have an fc15 box and I'm trying to renew a few certs and create some
new ones. At the end of the process, it just reports that it can't
create them, and exits. dmesg shows that keyutils has segfaulted:
[515934.138186] keyutil[18609]: segfault at 48 ip 0000003943c4a26e sp
00007fff02115700 error 4 in libc-2.14.1.so[3943c00000+190000]
Does anyone know the commands that genkey runs so I can run them manually?
What are the steps to create a self-signed certificate for apache?
Thanks,
Alex
11 years, 6 months
Make an existing user part of Administrators
by Gianluca Cecchi
Hello,
during install of F17 and F18 you are required to create a user.
Also, you can flag if you want to make it part of administrator group.
What is the command that runs under the scenes?
What are the GUI steps to reproduce the same effects for an existing
user after install?
perhaps:
- uncomment the %wheel line in sudoers
- make the user part of wheel group
?
thanks in advance
gianluca
11 years, 6 months
locale settings
by Tim
Is anyone else using Fedora in Australia and noticed that locale
settings aren't what they ought to be?
Specifically that the system locale, despite being set up during
post-installation, was on a US setting. And that personal locales
inherit that, and each logon needs manually setting to Australian. And
that applications that print need manually setting to A4, instead of
already being preset to A4 by the locale (or even not preselecting from
the printer settings).
--
[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.6.6-1.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Nov 5 21:59:35 UTC 2012 x86_64
All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
public lists.
11 years, 6 months
network manager has gone crazy
by lee
Hi,
apparently network manager continues to overwrite /etc/resolv.conf with
incorrect data. Adjusting it with system-config-network doesn't help.
I have:
,----
| UUID="4881d1f8-79a5-46f3-a490-2464eebd89aa"
| NM_CONTROLLED=yes
| ONBOOT=yes
| TYPE=Ethernet
| IPV6INIT=no
| NAME="System em1"
| HWADDR=00:24:21:f3:94:ed
| BOOTPROTO=none
| DEFROUTE=yes
| IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=no
| USERS=root
| USERCTL=no
| IPADDR=192.168.178.20
| NETMASK=255.255.255.0
| GATEWAY=192.168.178.1
| DNS1=127.0.0.1
| PREFIX=24
`----
... and the copies of that file under the different names are all the
same. After some time, /etc/resolv.conf will be empty, and it sometimes
is missing the "search" entry.
Why is the network manager going crazy and doesn't stick with the
information I'm giving it, and how do I fix this? Name resolution going
down because /etc/resolv.conf keeps getting overwritten causes very
annoying interruptions.
I know I could disable network manager, but that isn't really a
solution. I need it solved before I go to sleep, though.
--
Fedora 17
11 years, 6 months
Amarok
by jarmo
Hi
Just tried to testplay one mp3 with Amarok. No worky. Require MPEG 1
layer 3 plugin. I have installed all "good, bad and ugly" :) plugins
for Gstreamer, but when trying to play, poup says, that it can't find
MPEG 1 layer 3 decoder. Trying to use packagekit to install it, no
worky. F17 and all possible updates done.
Any idea?
Jarmo
11 years, 6 months
UPS monitoring software and APC and Tripp lite UPSs
by Robert Moskowitz
Well my APC smart1400 has died, shorted battery. So I am in the market
for a new unit.
I could get another APC 1400, but part of the reason it died was I was
not monitoring it to note a battery had failed. And I was not
monitoring it because it uses serial connection for the monitoring system.
So I am looking at what I might get with a USB monitoring port, either
APC or TrippLite and what software would work on Fedora.
Can anyone give me the benefit of their experiences?
11 years, 6 months
GDM has wrong monitor resolution, with a bit of a howto
by Tim
For some reason, my installation picks the wrong monitor resolution, by
default. In my case, less resolution than it could manage, and results
in a weird aspect ratio. So I have to manually configure each user to
use the correct one, which is a bit annoying. That leaves gdm with the
wrong resolution, and not quite so easily resolved.
However, copying a working ~/.config/monitors.xml file over to the gdm
homespace in /var/lib/gdm/.config/monitors.xml fixes that up.
Also copying it into /etc/skel/.config/monitors.xml ought to preset any
new users with a working screen resolution, but I haven't tested that,
yet.
--
[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.6.6-1.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Nov 5 21:59:35 UTC 2012 x86_64
All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
public lists.
11 years, 6 months
Qalc interprets 1,000 as a vector
by Jonathan Ryshpan
I've been very happy with the desk calculator Qalc, except for one
thing. If you enter a comma separated number, say 1,000 (easy to do if
you paste it in from a financial web site), qalc interprets it as a
vector. Is there any way to suppress this? The documentation indicates
that it should be possible by setting the locale correctly, but I
haven't been able to get it to work.
Here's the situation:
My locale
$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=POSIX
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
A short session using the command line interface to qalc (empty lines
edited out for brevity):
$ qalc
> 1,234
[1, 234] = [1, 234]
> $1,234
[dollar * 1, 234] = [$1, 234]
> 1,1
[1, 1] = [1, 1]
> 2,3
[2, 3] = [2, 3]
> +
[1, 1] + [2, 3] = [3, 4]
> quit
Qalculate! 0.9.7 (Using KDE 3.5.10-38-fc17 Fedora)
Running on x86_64 hardware
11 years, 6 months
Any RPi people on here ?
by linux guy
Is anyone playing around with Fedora on a Raspberry Pi ?
How are you finding it ? What are you doing with it ?
Thanks
11 years, 6 months