Re: automatic helpers which really suck!
by R. G. Newbury
> On 12/13/2012 01:07 PM, François Patte wrote:
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>> > Bonjour,
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>> > I installed f-17 and wanted to set my mail with thunderbird.
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>> > New account, name, mail address, smtp....*immediately* thunderbird
>> > helper goes on the web to check my email server and don't find it! Why?
>> > I really don't know: this mail address and server has been in service
>> > for years now (and I'm using it to send this mail).... I can ping it, I
>> > can dig it...
You might check first in your ~/.thunderbird/profile.ini file.
IIRC, the last time I installed TBird, it created a *new* xxxyyy.default
folder, and pointed profile.ini at *that* folder.
Changing the profile.ini to point to the correct, older default folder
fixed that. It was a while ago, and things "may have changed" (as if we
can assume that they have not!).
Talking about other 'automatic' helpers which suck: I nominate nepomuk,
closely followed by zietgeist as "disastrous moronic stupidity of the
decade". Not that they might not be useful to someone, but that they
install themselves like the malaria parasite, suck your cycles and are
almost impossible to actually kill. Shades of the walking dead.
(Yes I know these are KDE specific, but in my defense I offer: Gnome.
The defense rests.)
Geoff
11 years, 4 months
Best way to make sakis3g and Network Manager/FC coexist?
by M. Fioretti
Greetings,
I have a laptop running FC16 x86_64 with all updates applied.
Today I set it up to connect it via 3g network with the sakis3g script
from http://sakis3g.org
(I'm asking here for support both because the problem **seems**
Fedora-specific, and because the sakis3g support forum is offline)
The script works as expected:
- the led on the key turns stable blue, which is supposed to mean
just that
- ifconfig lists a ppp connection up and running with a public IP
address
however, this isn't enough to connect, because /etc/resolv.conf
contains x.x.x.x as DNS1 and DNS2
When I manually insert there valid IP addresses of DNS servers,
everything works.
The question is: what is the best way/best practice to make this work
automatically every time, even if the laptop is connected half the
time via Ethernet cable + DHCP, and half the time with this (or any
other) 3G modem key managed by sakis3g? Since that script does indeed
a great job of talking to the key, I'd rather keep using it (*), but I
must also integrate it in the Fedora/network manager way of doing
things...
TIA,
Marco
(*) I **did** set up internet connections completely by hand on Linux
when 56K ppp links were "broadband", and could do it again if really
necessary, but it's one of the things I'm happy I was allowed to
forget, if you know what I mean..
11 years, 4 months
Script Problem in Firefox
by Jonathan Ryshpan
The NY Times Home Page <www.nytimes.com> often scrolls so slowly as to
be almost unusable. This appears to be related to messages like the
following, which appear repeatedly. When I click on the "Stop Script"
box in the message performance improves slightly for a while, then
degrades and I see the box again. This behavior appears only when the
Home Page is viewed in Firefox (17.0.1) running under Linux (Fedora 17)
and not when it is viewed in Windows XP (running in a Virtual Machine
under Linux), nor when the "Todays Paper"
<http://www.nytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/index.html> is viewed under
Linux.
Has anyone else seen this problem? Any ideas on how to fix?
Here is the message:
A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped
responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to
see if the script will complete.
Script: http://c.betrad.com/geo/ba.js?r756:58
O Don't ask me again |Stop Script|
|Continue|
Thanks for your help - jon
11 years, 4 months
Anyone had success with Pungi or Revisor and F18 producing an INSTALL iso (not a LIVECD)?
by Philip Rhoades
People,
After struggling with build iso errors with Pungi and Revisor and not
getting any response from posts to the buildsys and test lists, I
thought I would try here:
While trying to build F17, F18 and Rawhide with configs like the
attached kickstart file and a command like:
pungi -c system_config_kickstart.ks --nosource --force --ver=F18
--all-stages
I get this error. It appears that this was a problem with F15/16 as
well?
I want to build a minimal F18 install CD (ie NOT a Live CD).
Am I missing something? - anaconda and lorax are in x86_64/os/Packages/
Someone must have this working?
Thanks,
Phil.
--
Philip Rhoades
GPO Box 3411
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au
11 years, 4 months
F18 - laptop suspends twice under Xfce
by Maciek Borzęcki
Has anyone noticed anything weird regarding laptop suspend under F18 and
Xfce 4.10?
I've god a good old T60 here, and since upgrading to F18, whenever a
suspend is triggered through ACPI (lid closing, Fn+suspend), the laptop
suspends twice. What happens is that right away after closing the lid
laptop goes to suspend (really fast, I don't recall suspend being this
fast ever). Then after opening the lid, the screen shows for a second
and it goes to suspend again.
Observations so far:
1. it does not happen under gnome 3
2. it does not happen if I trigger suspend from software (xfce ->
applications -> log out, or pm-suspend)
I've restarted xfce4-power-manager with --debug, and it seems that
something else triggers suspend in kernel, even before
xfce-power-manager gets the relevant event about lid being closed.
<lid closed - quick suspend>
<lid opened, laptop wakes up>
<at this point, I see the screen for a second>
TRACE[xfpm-manager.c:317] xfpm_manager_lid_changed_cb(): LID close event: ((XfpmLidTriggerAction) LID_TRIGGER_SUSPEND)
<and this is where it's already suspending again>
TRACE[xfpm-power.c:1148] xfpm_power_refresh_adaptor_visible(): Tray icon configuration: : ((XfpmShowIcon) SHOW_ICON_WHEN_BATTERY_PRESENT)
TRACE[xfpm-power.c:1113] xfpm_power_hide_adapter_icon(): Hide adaptor icon
TRACE[xfpm-polkit.c:466] xfpm_polkit_changed_cb(): Auth changed
TRACE[xfpm-power.c:1105] xfpm_power_polkit_auth_changed_cb(): Auth configuration changed
TRACE[xfpm-polkit.c:368] xfpm_polkit_init_data(): Using unix session polkit subject
TRACE[xfpm-polkit.c:455] xfpm_polkit_check_auth_intern(): Action=org.freedesktop.upower.suspend is authorized=TRUE
TRACE[xfpm-polkit.c:455] xfpm_polkit_check_auth_intern(): Action=org.freedesktop.upower.hibernate is authorized=TRUE
TRACE[xfpm-polkit.c:455] xfpm_polkit_check_auth_intern(): Action=org.freedesktop.udisks.drive-set-spindown is authorized=TRUE
TRACE[xfpm-disks.c:170] xfpm_disks_get_is_auth_to_spin(): Is auth to spin down disks : 1
TRACE[xfpm-manager.c:344] xfpm_manager_lid_changed_cb(): LID opened: ((XfpmLidTriggerAction) LID_TRIGGER_SUSPEND)
TRACE[xfpm-dpms.c:302] xfpm_dpms_force_level(): start
TRACE[xfpm-dpms.c:334] xfpm_dpms_force_level(): No need to change DPMS mode, current_level=0 requested_level=0
--
Maciek Borzecki
11 years, 4 months
Problem with yum update && yum upgrade
by Roger
Hi
I have been using sudo yum update && yum upgrade every couple of days or
so to keep Fedora 16 up to date but this morning have a problem.
It installs some files DKMS uninstall completes yum then cleans up some
files and verifies, removes unwanted kernel-devel
Skipped (dependency problems):
system-config-date.noarch 0:1.10.5-1.fc16
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
http://nodejs.tchol.org/stable/f16/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno
14] curl#7 - "Couldn't connect"
Trying other mirror.
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package system-config-date.noarch 0:1.9.67-1.fc16 will be updated
---> Package system-config-date.noarch 0:1.10.5-1.fc16 will be an update
--> Processing Dependency: python-slip >= 0.2.21 for package:
system-config-date-1.10.5-1.fc16.noarch
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: system-config-date-1.10.5-1.fc16.noarch (updates-testing)
Requires: python-slip >= 0.2.21
Installed: python-slip-0.2.20-1.fc16.noarch (@updates)
python-slip = 0.2.20-1.fc16
Available: python-slip-0.2.17-1.fc16.noarch (fedora)
python-slip = 0.2.17-1.fc16
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
I ran sudo yum update --skip-broken && yum upgrade which installed and
updated some files but fails to complete.
rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest doesn't seem to do anything.
What should I do to resolve this impasse?
Roger
11 years, 4 months
ATI legacy/UEFI
by Brian West
I am currently using the ati legacy perpritory drivers on fedora 17
x86_64. It is my understanding that the version of xorg that will ship
with fedora 18 will not be compatable with these drivers. Is it likely
that ati will update them? If not is there a way they can still be used
as the open source 3d acceleration is not that great. I dont run windows
or daul boot so if i'm forced to buy a new notebook will the uefi issue
prevent me from installing/running fedora? Thanks in advance for your time
-Brian
11 years, 4 months
fedora 18 and ati legacy drivers
by Brian West
When fedora 18 comes out will 17 still get all of the normal updates or
just security and bug fixes? the reason I ask is because the ati legacy
drivers wont work with the new version of xorg and as of now the open
source drivers lacking 3d acceleration and hardware rendering support.
any thoughts or suggestions?
-Brian
11 years, 4 months
F17 power management problems after resume on Asus ee701
by Robert Moskowitz
More on my f17 ee 701 install, this time with power management.
If I boot from AC I can switch to battery and it runs ~3hr on battery.
Same if I boot directly from battery. I can poweroff and power on and
still get about 3 hours.
But if I suspend, then whether on AC of battery I only get about 30 min
before it just shuts off very ungracefully. Pop! And the power icon
shows battery discharging even when I am on AC.
I am managing the rebooting, but would really like to have workable
suspend on that computer...
11 years, 4 months