protip: Postfix no longer forces installation of sasl2 plain libraries
by Julian C. Dunn
Thought this info might be useful to anyone else installing F17 from scratch and trying to port old Postfix configs.
It seems that installing Postfix does not, by default, install cyrus-sasl-plain. This means that AUTH LOGIN PLAIN mechanism won't work out of the box when using Postfix as a client.
I had:
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtp_sasl_tls_security_options = noanonymous
and kept getting
"SASL authentication failure: No worthy mechs found"
which made no sense to me. I finally discovered liblogin.so and libplain.so missing from /usr/lib64/sasl2. As I said before, installing the cyrus-sasl-plain RPM manually fixed the problem.
- Julian
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Julian C. Dunn <jdunn(a)aquezada.com>
Systems Engineer, Project Leader, Writer
WWW: www.juliandunn.net
Phone: (347) 986-0308
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/julian
11 years, 10 months
I need help starting Gnome3 in runlevel 3
by John Wendel
I like starting by box in runlevel 3 and using startx to get the desktop
running. I created .xinitrc with the contents being "exec
gnome-session"; the desktop starts, but gnome-shell loops consuming 145%
of 2 cpus. Needless to say, the system isn't very usable.
If I run init 5, and go thru gdm, the desktop runs fine, but I'm trying
to eliminate unnecessary processes, and I really don't want to run gdm.
Can someone share the spell that will get Gnome running correctly using
startx?
Thanks,
John
11 years, 10 months
Curious And Worried.....
by EGO-II.1
6K so I've FINALLY gotten through the pre-upgrade process, (Thanks to al
who gave me input, advice, and instruction!...it was invaluable!) So I
have finally gone from Fedora 15 to 16.....(not wanting to go to 17
until a few more bugs have been worked out!) But I'm LOVIN' 16! My only
concern is, that while everything is working fine, and all my bookmarks,
pictures, songs, and themes are still here, there's a message I got when
I was in Terminal checking things there and it says I have "mail" but
it's in a folder?.....I've abbreviated the entire message, but I'm
wondering if there's something wrong with the upgrade? I've never seen
this message before when I was using Fedora 15...any one have any idea
what this is?
EGO II
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:22:01 -0400
Message-Id: <201206210022.q5L0M1rl009542@JANUS-2012>
From: janus@JANUS-2012 (Cron Daemon)
To: janus@JANUS-2012
Subject: Cron <janus@JANUS-2012> fwbackups-run -l 'Fusion Linux Version
15' # autogenerated by fwbackups
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/janus>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=janus>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=janus>
/bin/sh: fwbackups-run: command not found
11 years, 10 months
Install package during installation of the system
by Celso Viana
Hi all,
I would like to install "Virtualbox" already during the installation
of "system". both added to the repository rpmfusion free and nonfree,
but the package virtualbox does not appear in any of the groups of
programs.
Does anyone know if this is possible?
--
Celso Vianna
BSD User: 51318
http://www.bsdcounter.org
63 8404-8559
Palmas/TO
11 years, 10 months
Yum messing up again
by Joe Zeff
Right now, I'm at Chaos Manor, housesitting, and using my laptop. (F16
with Xfce) I tried to run a routine update with yumex, but got this error:
ERROR: Error in yum Transaction : [u'ERROR with transaction check vs
depsolve:', 'python(abi) = 2.6 is needed by (installed)
rhpl-0.221-2.i686', u'Please report this error at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&version=rawhide&...']
I tried again, telling it to Skip Broken and got the same error. What
makes it odd is two things: 1) I have no rawhide repos selected and 2)
the package rhpl wasn't listed in the updates. As suggested, I've
reported this as Bug #834417. I'm not at all sure what's going on here,
because my desktop updated Just Fine this morning. I'm mentioning this
so that anybody else running across this can add to my bug instead of
opening a duplicate.
11 years, 10 months
display frustration
by Mark Haney
Okay, I'm still no closer to fixing my display problem. I can't imagine
how a graphical installation could work without a hitch and yet the
graphical display (indeed, even the CLI) be so FUBAR.
My screen is shifted to the right about 2/3 the across the display.
Even in rl 3. I thought it was due to the video card having multiple
video outputs, so I disabled them in the static xorg.conf file I
created. No go.
Now, I'm thinking it might be the radeon driver it's using? The card in
a Radeon HD 6670 with 1GB RAM.
FYI, this happened when I installed Kubuntu as well, so it's not a
specific Fedora issue.
Any ideas? Surely, someone has something that might help.
--
Mark Haney
Software Developer/Consultant
AB Emblem
markh(a)abemblem.com
Linux marius.homelinux 3.3.8-1.fc16.x86_64 GNU/Linux
11 years, 10 months
E-mail image problem - Correction
by Bob Goodwin
This is an f-16/64 computer with Thunderbird 12.0.1 which I believe is
up to date. I don't get e-mail messages with photos in them
everyday, sometimes not for weeks, but recently when I do they not
only fail but all I see is a listing in the messages with perhaps a
meg for the size and nothing else, just a blank message devoid of
text and the usual items that allow me to write a response.
When I go into the Thunderbird Mail file and look at the raw message
it appears the message cuts off after a few lines of the image file.
An example, I've trimmed the beginning but left everything else to
the end.:
To: <bobgoodwin(a)wildblue.net>
Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary=_Mixed742414633Boundary_
--_Mixed742414633Boundary_
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Here Bob,
I'm sending this right from my phone. See if this works.
Rusty
--_Mixed742414633Boundary_
Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="IMG_20120620_142926.jpg"
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="IMG_20120620_142926.jpg"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64
/9j/4SBqRXhpZgAATU0AKgAAAAgACAEPAAIAAAAMAAAAbgEQAAIAAAAQAAAAegESAAMAAAABAAEA
AAEaAAUAAAABAAAAigEbAAUAAAABAAAAkgEoAAMAAAABAAIAAAITAAMAAAABAAEAAIdpAAQAAAAB
AAAAmgAAAZBDQS1DZWxsdWxhcgBHJ3pPbmUgQ29tbWFuZG8AAAAASAAAAAEAAABIAAAAAQAMkAAA
BwAAAAQwMjIwkAMAAgAAABQAAAEwkAQAAgAAABQAAAFEkQEABwAAAAQBAgMAkgoABQAAAAEAAAFY
knwABwAAABIAAAFgoAAABwAAAAQwMTAwoAEAAwAAAAEAAQAAoAIABAAAAAEAAAogoAMABAAAAAEA
AAeYoAUABAAAAAEAAAFypAMAAwAAAAEAAAAAAAAAADIwMTI6MDY6MjAgMTQ6Mjk6MjUAMjAxMjow
He says he sent that from his phone but he tried from his computer
earlier and just over the last few days I've had several episodes
like that from several correspondents, all running some version of
Windows.
Any thoughts on what is wrong?
Bob
-- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box7
11 years, 10 months
pulse audio application editor
by Ed Greshko
I just installed skype on an F16 system and plugged in my USB headset. Since I'm
using pulseaudio the only selection for audio devices within skype was pulse.
However my USB headset wasn't being used and it didn't seem select able.
I found that when I had skype running and using the "echo test" feature skype would
show up in pavucontrol. But, it would only pop up in Playback or Input Devices when
it was either playing a sound or expecting microphone input. At that that time, I
could quickly make the necessary selections and they seem to be retained. So, I
don't have an existing problem....
What I'd like to know is a way to edit the relationship between the applications and
the audio device they use without having that application running.....
Using KDE/F16.
--
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke
of the century. -- Dame Edna Everage
11 years, 10 months
Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Gnome 3
by Daniel
On 06/20/2012 10:04 AM, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote:
> As for building my OWN desktop from source?....I'm too timid
> and afraid to even attempt it! Although it intrigues me, I just don't
> think I have the "chops" for something so intricate and complex!
Build from source (which is very different from writing source code)
is, as I said, not usually very difficult. In most cases, it is a
matter of executing perhaps half a dozen commands, the most complex of
which is just an extraction from an archive.
But a number of alternate GUIs don't even require that one build from
source (for Fedora). It's just a matter of a "yum install" or of a
"yum groupinstall". (Examples of such GUIs are Xfce, Cinnamon, and
LXDE. Xfce and LXDE are designed to be fast and frugal. Cinnamon is
designed to take a different path from Gnome 2.6 than Gnome 3.x has.)
Moreover, once installed, these GUIs simply become further options.
At login, one chooses which GUI one wants for the session.
11 years, 10 months