Redshift saved my eyes
by Christopher Svanefalk
If you, like me, spend long hours at night in front of the screen, please
do yourself a favor and install the Redshift package immediately.
You will not regret it.
--
Best,
Christopher Svanefalk
11 years, 10 months
searching for Fedora-compliant packages of rar and unrar
by Max Pyziur
Greetings,
I'm searching for Fedora-compliant packages of rar and unrar. I know that
they can be found at Repoforge (http://repoforge.org/). However, they are
for CentOS and RHEL.
Are there any repos where rpm packages of rar/unrar that can be found and
useable on Fedora 17?
Much thanks.
Max Pyziur
pyz(a)brama.com
11 years, 10 months
Yumex cannot Authicate
by Mickey
network interface p128p1 (r8169) is connected
13:20:28 : Connected to an network
13:20:28 : network interface p128p1 (r8169) is connected
13:20:28 : Starting yum child process
13:20:28 : YUM: [1;31m==== AUTHENTICATING FOR
org.yum-extender.backend.pkexec.run ===
13:20:28 : YUM: [0mAuthentication is required for Yum Extender to
handle packages on the system
13:20:28 : YUM: Authenticating as: root
Yumex F17 doea not show root auth window to run yumex as root.
I can do yum updates from terminal window as SU .
11 years, 10 months
F17 gnome-terminal crashes
by Frode Petersen
I was about to report a bug towards terminal, as several other people
have, but after trying to start terminal as a fresh test user without
problems, I'm uncertain about this being a bug in terminal or not.
Problem: gnome terminal crashes every time I try to start it, with abrt
reporting it killed by signal 6 (SIGABRT).
The install is about a fortnight old, so it's odd that such a vital part
should fail so soon.
Could anyone please help me decide if this is a bug to be filed against
gnome-terminal, or otherwise help me find out what has happened to the
'chain' that starts the program?
Thanks in advance!
Frode Petersen
Here is what I wrote before changing my mind:
---------
1. Click on the gnome-terminal icon
2. Wait for the terminal window to open. The left hand side of the panel
indicates that terminal is starting
3. Nothing happens and the gnome-terminal starting indication on the
panel disappears.
(4. Abrt shows the crash info)
Going through the crash report I found these oddities:
In /var/log/messages (through abrt):
Jul 3 01:42:15 fprdl dbus-daemon[896]: (packagekitd:10797):
PkPlugin-WARNING **: could not load desktop file
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/gnome-terminal.desktop
Jul 5 12:42:28 fprdl abrt[8434]: Sav...
---- I don't understand why a xfce4 file is involved in starting
gnome-terminal on gnome3. The file comes from the package
exo-0.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64, and exists:
$ ls -alF /usr/share/xfce4/helpers/gnome-terminal.desktop
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1599 jan. 13 13:10
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/gnome-terminal.desktop
I have not installed xfce, only thunar, which probably brought the file in.
Starting gnome-terminal from konsole in gnome3 gives this result:
$ gnome-terminal
GConf Error: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: D-BUS error:
GConf-tjeneren er i ferd med å stenge ned.
GConf Error: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: D-BUS error:
GConf-tjeneren er i ferd med å stenge ned.
GConf Error: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: D-BUS error:
GConf-tjeneren er i ferd med å stenge ned.
GConf Error: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: D-BUS error:
GConf-tjeneren er i ferd med å stenge ned.
GConf Error: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: D-BUS error:
GConf-tjeneren er i ferd med å stenge ned.
GConf Error: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: D-BUS error:
GConf-tjeneren er i ferd med å stenge ned.
**
ERROR:terminal-app.c:1449:terminal_app_init: assertion failed:
(app->default_profile_id != NULL)
Aborted (core dumped)
$
[The D-BUS error translates (approximately?) to "The GConf-server is
about to shut down")
11 years, 10 months
gnome-terminal size incorrect in fc17
by Bill Davidsen
I modified the properties in the terminal launcher, such that it opens a 100x32
terminal.However, the actual size is somewhat less than that, such that I have
to use:
--geometry 101x32
to get the full 100 printing characters. This does not seem to be the case with
GNOME2 systems, and it happens in GNOME3, XFCE, and Cinnamon. I think it's a bug
in gnome-terminal. The old fc14/RHEL6 version gives me what I request. I tried
setting a custom default size in edit->preferences, which did not change the
behavior.
Will push to bugzilla later today unless someone winds fault with my test.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
11 years, 10 months
F16 - Password requirements
by Jeffrey Ross
How do I relax the password requirements in Fedora?
I though adjusting /etc/pam.d/system-auth was were the changed needed to
be made, I made this change:
#password requisite pam_cracklib.so try_first_pass retry=3 type=
password sufficient pam_unix.so sha512 shadow nullok try_first_pass
#use_authtok
password required pam_deny.so
but Fedora still seems to be strict on password requirements. So either I
attacked the wrong file or made the wrong changes.
Any pointers to where I should be making my changes?
Thanks, Jeff
11 years, 10 months
printing OS signal on console
by debit2005@gmail.com
Hi Friends,
I want to print the OS SIGNAL on the screen after trapping it with bash.
Can you please help me in writing this bash script. I tried a lot but
not getting the working code.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Debasish Das
11 years, 10 months
ipv6 problem
by Mike Wright
Hi all,
Anybody need a good laugh at somebody else's expense?
I screwed up a dns address and pointed it to China (1.something) instead
of unrouteable (10.something). A very *short* time later I was suddenly
some sort of server for whomever in the world was looking for .CN, much
of which was ipv6 advertisements, and to add insult to injury I found
that I was trying resolve them.
Since this had become a major bandwidth consumer and no doubt confused a
lot of routers around the world I'm pretty sure both the US spies and
their CN counterparts got their eyes onto me. Panicked laughter here :/
In my desperate attempts to track down the source of the problem I
started to tear down anything ipv6. Seems I've have managed to do so
quite well.
I have 4 machines that won't speak ipv6. modprobe ipv6 works on each of
them, lsmod shows that they all have the ipv6 module installed.
Using iproute2: "ip addr list" shows only "inet" addresses but no
"inet6" addresses. Any attempt to "ip addr add dev ethX ipv6-addr"
returns a "permission denied" regardless of user.
I don't remember any ON/OFF switch for ipv6. (CRS)
Does anybody out there have any idea how to bring IPv6 back to life on
these machines or perhaps any insight into just what the resident idiot
may have done?
Thanks, Mike Wright (befuddled)
11 years, 10 months