Mysterious error message when installing F17
by Aaron Konstam
What is the significance of the error message:
Error could not insert 'floppy' no such device
Loading Fedora 17 i686 install
rpcbind terminating on signal. Restart with "rpcbind -w"
that appears when installing F1`7 from a DVD?
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11 years, 10 months
Gnome-rdp
by Lawrence E Graves
I can't make gnome-rdp work not can I get remmina to work either. Please
give me some information concerning this problem.
I work on computers remotely and so this is a major concern for me.
Thanking you in advance for all your help.
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All things are workable but don't all things work. Prov.3:5 & 6
11 years, 10 months
(no subject)
by Richard Vickery
Hi gang:
Before F-17 I had become accustomed through experience to using <tab>, hit
twice, to get a full list of the commands; perhaps you set it by default -
at least in the release on the website. This time I upgraded through the
link in the mail. Perhaps I asked this before and forgot the method: what
is the proper command to get a
list of all of the commands, and perhaps, how do I set it up through
this <tab> shortcut?
Thanks,
Richard
11 years, 10 months
tracker-store and tracker-extract eating 50% of cpu time on a Dual-core AMD Opteron
by Fernando Cassia
Suddenly after a reboot I find between 50-60% of my CPU used. I load
process manager and find tracker-store and tracker-extract being the main
culprits, with spikes of 90% of cpu usage.
This is a dual-core AMD Opteron server with 2 gigs of RAM.
Who' s the genius who thought this would be acceptable? and how do I tame
these processes not to use more than 10% of cpu without uninstalling the
whole shebang? (provided those actually serve a useful purpose that I'm not
aware of).
Thanks in advance
FC
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During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary
act
Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un Acto
Revolucionario
- George Orwell
11 years, 10 months
Adobe no longer maintaining yum repo for flash-plugin
by Andre Robatino
Sorry for the off-topic post, but I'm not sure what else to do. The Flash plugin
was updated to 11.2.202.235 about a week ago. This is a security update. But
their yum repos (both i386 and x86_64) still have 11.2.202.233. I filed
https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3185733 and they promptly
closed it as NotABug. There is an updated RPM at
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ under ".rpm for other Linux" but I'm not sure
if it's identical to what the repo is supposed to provide. In any case,
providing a yum repo implies a promise that it will be kept updated. Could
people please vote for my bug in the hope of getting someone at Adobe to wake
up? Thanks.
11 years, 10 months
Re: An apology is required from me
by Daniel
Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote:
> While I don't consider myself on the level of most of the people here,
> I also am not stupid enough to think my "blanket statement" will be
> wonderfully and miraculously accepted by all.
The issue wasn't whether a blanket statement would be accepted by all.
The issue was whether you could make peace by telling a group of
disputants, amongst other things, that there was some sort of
legitimacy in one disputant having called another arrogant. (You
probably did not _intend_ to do that, but you managed to do it
none-the-less, as a consequence of not having actually followed what
was being said.)
> I was more trying to point out that the same way you can send me a
> direct e-mail telling me....to put it bluntly.... "mind my
> business"...couldn't you do the same in regards to whomever it is
> you're at opposites with regarding opinion, lack of facts, inclusion
> of facts, whether or not points are valid, moot, frivolous, etc.
Again, you're writing as if there are just two sides here (so that
there are "opposites"); there are at least three distinct positions
her, and possibly more.
> I meant no harm in making the statements I made, and stand by
> them......seriously.......if you want to hash out the semantics of
> whom said what and in what order they were said, and what information
> was actually requested as opposed to what was
> "snipped".....omitted......spoken out of sequence etc. Then why not do
> it one-on-one? as opposed to attaching it to a thread in a mailing list?
You also write as if there are just two disputants; there have been
almost 40! One-to-one works with two people, each only concerned with
the views of the other. Otherwise, one uses something such as (tah
dah!) a mailing list.
> I don't "pop in" on amy of the threads.....I follow the consistently,
Attempting to follow and participating are two different things. You
indeed popped-in on a discussion, and it is plain that your prior
attempts to follow it had been unsuccessful.
11 years, 10 months
f16 system-config-boot incompatible with grub2
by John Pilkington
I recently used preupgrade from f15 to f16. The installation (x86_64)
was new at f12. The upgrade was largely troublefree but booting has
gone from grub to grub2 - and it did not carry over elevator=deadline to
specify the kernel scheduler, or the timeout value.
Now, if I try to run system-config-boot, it fails, reporting:
Error reading /boot/grub/grub.conf - ie, the original grub config file.
I don't think this has been reported before; it isn't bug 654602.
The package is system-config-boot-1.0-1.fc16.x86_64.rpm
John P
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11 years, 10 months
f17 x86_64 :: non-functional kde
by Adrian Sevcenco
Hi! I just installed f17 on my thinkpad t420 and clean up my home
directory of all configurations .. i have disable selinux and chown -R
all my files ... the problem is that at start of kde i have a crash of
Plasma Desktop Shell followed at a few second by the crash of Run
Command Interface .. so .. what is going on? did anyone encountered this?
Thanks!
Adrian
11 years, 10 months
CIFS mount problem with 3.4.2-1.fc16.x86_64 kernel
by Doug Wyatt
Hi,
I just ran a yum update on F16 which included the 3.4.2-1.fc16.x86_64
kernel.
All the CIFS mounts failed, error 22 (Invalid Argument). In 'messages'
I found a series of msgs like this:
Jun 24 05:34:36 mel kernel: [ 3989.465216] CIFS: Unknown mount option
"UID=500"
Removing UID=500 from an fstab entry allowed me to mount the Win7 share,
but all files/dirs in that share are now root:root. I also tried
changing to UID=user_name, but got the same invalid arg error.
Rebooting to the prev kernel (3.3.8-1.fc16.x86_64), fstab entries with
UID=500 again mounted w/o error and shares again show the approp owner.
Is this a bug in the newer kernel?
Thanks for any help you can offer,
Doug Wyatt
11 years, 10 months
what is up with /etc/pam.d?
by Tom Horsley
I've never looked at or modified any files in /etc/pam.d
till I happened to notice some *.rpmnew files in there.
Now I see a bunch of files that are symlinks to
other files with -ac on the end, but also have
versions that are *.rpmnew.
rpm queries show that the pam rpm owns the
files without the -ac and the authconfig rpm
owns the ones with the -ac suffix.
So now, what should really be in /etc/pam.d?
[root@zooty pam.d]# pwd
/etc/pam.d
[root@zooty pam.d]# ls -l smartcard-auth*
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 17 May 31 17:02 smartcard-auth -> smartcard-auth-ac
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 754 May 31 17:25 smartcard-auth-ac
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 743 May 9 05:21 smartcard-auth.rpmnew
[root@zooty pam.d]# rpm -q -f /etc/pam.d/smartcard-auth
pam-1.1.5-6.fc17.x86_64
[root@zooty pam.d]# rpm -q -f /etc/pam.d/smartcard-auth-ac
authconfig-6.2.1-1.fc17.x86_64
11 years, 10 months