Where is my Vbetool?
by Jean Francois Martinez
Is there in F18 a successor to Vbetool? Its usefulness went far beyond setting the video at boot time.
In sevaerl occassions I hacve had to kill X but this leaves the video card in
a bad state and I can no longer have a text display until I reboot.
In F17 vbetool could be used for resetting the video card to a sane state. Now I am forced to reboot.
Unless there is a better successor vbetool should be reintroduced in Fedora.
--
Jean François Martinez <jfm512(a)free.fr>
10 years, 11 months
Minor printing issue
by Joe Zeff
Currently, I'm using F 17 and I have a reasonably new Canon MX410
printer. This works just fine except for one thing: it won't print pdf
files, no matter what I do. (I've had this printer since before I had
to re-install Fedora, and this has always been true; I just haven't
taken the time to work out what's wrong before.)
Both times that I've installed it, CUPS picked the printer right up and
selected what appeared to be the right driver. (It picked the one with
the correct make/model in the name.) I've checked with Canon, and they
don't support Linux; all they could do was point me at Adobe, which
didn't help at all. I've tried to run evince from the command line to
see if there were any error messages and there weren't. Checking, I
learned that both lp and lpr should be able to print pdf files from the
command line, but both of them complain that the destination isn't
listed. (TFM tells me that they both check $PRINTER and $LPDEST
environment variables, but neither of them is set. I've used the CUPS
interface to make sure that this is set as the default printer, closed
and re-opened the terminal, but they're still not set. At least,
echo $PRINTER
and
echo $LPDEST
return a blank line. Replacing the printer is not an option because my
income is very limited and, except for this it does everything I need.
Does anybody have any suggestions, including further troubleshooting?
10 years, 11 months
Unrelieved black popups and message boxes
by Temlakos
Everyone:
I asked this before under a different heading, and no one answered.
I get a large volume of e-mail, and very often I interact with a site
that brings up a lot of message boxes, "suggestion boxes" (for
auto-filling from a few keystroke clues), and bringing up apps after
they were minimized to the system tray or the task bar. Now why is it
that, after maybe two hours of operation, those popups come up and are
totally black? The only way to solve the problem, that I have found, is
to shut down. And even then, I can't even see what I'm doing, but have
to guess where the icons are for executing a controlled shutdown. (I can
always bring up a command-line login screen, log in as root, and then
shut down. But that doesn't seem to solve the problem for the next session.)
And when I log back on, everything's fine--until it starts happening
again, after several more window draws.
What could be causing this? Where do I even look for error logs and the
like?
I never had this problem in any other version of Fedora. I'm having it
now, and it's driving me nuts.
For the record, I used the "upgrading from F17 to F18 using yum" method.
I even used the elaborate script that walks you through rpmnew and
rpmsave reconciliation. And I've kept up with every system update since
then. Actually, the problem began about three kernel updates back.
Temlakos
10 years, 11 months
learning systemd: disable a "service" + create one to replace it
by Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi all,
Configuration: F17 LXDE spin.
I would like to
1°) disable LXDM launch
2°) launch a custom script i the place of it
The custom script is just a one-liner:
/usr/bin/X :1 -query my.session.server
# chkconfig --list:
livesys 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
livesys-late 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
netconsole 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
network 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
spice-vdagentd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:on 6:off
=> I see no mention of "lxdm".
I also tried:
# find / -type f -name '*.service'
=> No mention of "lxdm".
1°) Where to find it, in order to disable it?
2°) Would you know a ressource if I want to make my custom script to be
integrated to the systemd stuff, where to find how?
https://www.google.com/search?q=custom+systemd+script is a bit messy...
--
RMA.
10 years, 11 months
F17 LXDE spin: replace *DM systemd script for XDMCP
by Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi all,
I have installed several F17 desktop with LXDE spin.
It's OK.
Now I have a F18 "server" (on a 1U racked server), where I enabled XDMCP.
I want the F17 desktops to be the X clients of the server, in a simple
way (users are not geeks). To achieve this,
- I want the LXDM not to start (well "chkconfig lxdm off")
- I want the F17 desktops to replace LXDM starting by the connection to
the X server
-- Custom init file? (tutorial?)
How would you advice to do?
I dont want to use FreeNX nor XNest nor VNC, but full XDMCP.
Thank you in advance.
--
RMA.
10 years, 11 months
F18 xfce 'parole' media player cant even play back MPEG1 vids... (fixed)
by Fernando Cassia
The Parole media player in F18/XFCE is utterly broken.
First I downloaded a .mpg file (mpeg1). Tried to open it with Parole 0.3.0
as delivered on the F18 livecd. it failed.
The message was a generic "Missing plugins to play this file" message.
Then I updated it with yum, it installed Parole 0.5.0-1.
On the new version, it changed the dialog to a much more helpful: "Parole
needs MPEG-1 Video decoder to play this file. It can be installed
automatically."
It provides two buttons, one of which is "install".
I click on it. Nothing happens. I repeat the operation, same results.
Q: Does anybody even test this stuff?
Another half hour going in circles. I read about gstreamer1 replacing
gstreamer, I install
gstreamer1-plugins-good-* gstreamer1-plugins-bad*
same results, nothing happens, MPEG1 continues unplayable by Parole.
I think "maybe Parole uses gstreamer not gstreamer1..." I yum install
gstreamer-plugins-good and gstreamer-plugins-bad... still unplayable.
In the end, you want to know what fixed it? I googled around for "fc18 rpm
gstreamer-ffmpeg" and found this file
ftp://mirror.switch.ch/pool/3/mirror/rpmfusion/free/fedora/updates/18/x86_64/gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.13-8.fc18.i686.rpm
I did
yum install
ftp://mirror.switch.ch/pool/3/mirror/rpmfusion/free/fedora/updates/18/x86_64/gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.13-8.fc18.i686.rpm
Bingo, Parole can play back mpeg1 files.
It should be like this, if 'Parole' can't play back mpeg1 files natively
with the codecs installed on the LiveCD,
let's retire it from F18 XFCE, please...
as usual just my $0.02
FC
--
During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary
act
- George Orwell
10 years, 11 months
virtio-net broken for Linux guest?
by Tommy Pham
Hi,
Is anyone having problem using virtio NICs for the Linux guest VMs (Ubuntu
12.10, CentOS 6.4, and Fedora 18)? My guests can ping any domain (
www.yahoo.com, www.google.com, etc) fine without any issues. However, when
I do system updates (ie yum repolist, yum update, apt-get update, apt-get
upgrade), it doesn't get out to the internet. But when I changed the NIC
to e1000, everything works fine. I think the problem is with Linux
implementation of virtio-net as guest because the same environment setup
works fine for FreeBSD 8.x.
TIA,
Tommy
10 years, 11 months
How would a bad UPS affect only the network port
by Sam Varshavchik
I had a curious episode unfold over a course of a week involving a server
running F18. I'm just trying to solve a little puzzle in the aftermath, as a
mental excersize.
I went through three bad UPSes. The manufacturer had a bad batch of UPSes.
>From all appearances they worked when plugged into mains power. The server
was up and running normally plugged into the UPS, which had mains power, but
the bad UPSes wre draining their internal battery, even though they had main
power. Each UPS lasted about a day before its battery went completely dead,
it started beeping at me, with the server continuing to run on mains power.
Here's the mystery. While I was dealing with that headache, the server
started to drop off the network, maybe about every 5-6 hours, and stop
responding to pings. The server itself, from all appearances, was running
fine. I could log in on the console, everything seems to be working, except
that it wasn't on the network. ifdown/ifup didn't help, ifup was getting
stuck getting its IP address from DHCP. The switch had the server port lit,
and blinking, as it was trying to contact the DHCP server, but the server
wasn't getting its IP address.
About 20% of the time, unplugging the cable and plugging it back in worked.
A reboot always worked. The server would reboot, come up on the network,
have no problem talking to the DHCP server, and run fine for a few hours
before it stops responding to pings again.
Anyway, while I was dealing with the UPSes, I also thought that I had this
server's onboard NIC was going bad, and started getting quotes for a
replacement server. But, after finally putting the server on a good, working
UPS, it stopped having any kind of problems whatsoever with the network.
It's perfectly fine.
So, that leaves me wondering how a bad UPS would affect a server's network
port, and only its network port. As I understand it, with main power, the
UPS is pretty much out of the loop, and it kicks in only if mains power is
lost.
10 years, 11 months
F18, F19 webalizer problem?
by Cristian Sava
Hi all,
Webalizer is enabled via /etc/sysconfig/webalizer but I don't understand
why /etc/cron.daily/00webalizer has this line:
[ "z$WEBALIZER_CRON" != "zyes" ] && exit 0
that I think it should be (and it is working this way)
[ "$WEBALIZER_CRON" != "yes" ] && exit 0
What is the mistery?
C.Sava
10 years, 11 months
What's the best (recommended) way to modify a Fedora install ISO ?
by Fernando Cassia
I'm curious as to what is the best, or official way to modify a Fedora ISO
image considering that I only want to change the defaults of a few handful
packages, not do any major rebranding or modifications.
For instance, I'd like a Fedora ISO that includes cups-pdf pre-installed as
the default printer. How would one go about adding such package to the
default LiveCD?
Let's say also that I want only Firefox and all other packages under
"Internet" removed.
Just to name two examples... is there a "custom LiveCD creator" ?
FC
--
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
10 years, 11 months